Principal Enterprise Architect - Remote

Principal Enterprise Architect
- Remote

CSAA Insurance Group (CSAA IG), a AAA insurer, is one of the leading personal lines property and casualty insurance groups in the United States. Here, every employee shapes our mission. We build innovative, human-centered solutions that help AAA members prevent, prepare for, and recover from life's uncertainties. You will join a collaborative, inclusive culture where your strengths have room to grow and your ideas can drive real impact.

Step into a role where you can contribute to our shared success through meaningful work.

We are actively hiring for a Principal Enterprise Architect
- Remote

Your Work:

• Facilitating designs and building solutions across the enterprise, with a focus on evolving our technical capabilities in support of delivering business capabilities. Solutions are built in a highly collaborative environment, partnering with engineering, product, and program leaders.
• Leads and provides direction to Application Integration, Data, and Platform architecture vision for the enterprise.
• Works on the most complex projects and contributes to the overall strategic vision of the organization
• Integrates a broad range of ideas regarding technical and solution architecture, while developing strategies for migration toward the cloud architectural vision.
• Partners with business leaders to provide expert technical advice and influence strategic decision making
• Assess industry trends (business and technology) and appropriately position their subject areas.
• Provides thought leadership, create strategies and make recommendations on a wide variety of complex issues having a significant and strategic impact on processes and the business.
• Creates, guides, and partners with other architects in creating and maintaining roadmaps that connect business strategies to capabilities and provide a milestone-view of the cadence needed to move from current state to future state.
• Delivers a clear, pragmatic, approach with applicability to meet immediate business needs
• Demonstrates a strong ability to learn new information and systems quickly, works successfully in a highly matrixed organization
• Effectively manage priorities, deliverables and timelines with little need for escalation
• Demonstrates a strong bias for architecture principles balanced with tactical schedules, cost, and risks
• Leverage the appropriate mix of in-house and outsourced resources to protect intellectual property.

Required Experience, Education and Skills

• Technical skills: 15+ years experience with building scalable, multi-tier distributed cloud-native application architectures.
• Experience designing APIs, integrations with external systems including 3rd parties. Experience with one of the 3 cloud providers - AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Experience designing systems that has messaging characteristics. Experience designing systems that take advantage of both SQL and No
  
  SQL. databases.
• Good understanding of front-end UI frameworks like ReactJS. Mobile app development is a strong plus.
• Experience with designing secure systems using cyber security best practices.
• Bachelor's degree in related area (Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field) or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 15+ years Systems development and business experience designing solutions for multiple types of systems, client users and/or units across an organization.
• 5+ years Technical experience in a specific domain for design, development and deployments.
• Experience in a significant business domain such as CRM, Marketing, Insurance/Claims or Financial systems
• Good written and verbal communication skills to help interface with other teams.

What would make us excited about you?

• Actively shapes our company culture (e.g., supporting employee resource groups, mentoring employees, volunteering, joining cross-functional projects)
• Champions our cultural norms (e.g., willing to have cameras when it matters: helping onboard new team members, building relationships, etc.)
• Demonstrates a company ownership mindset, thinking beyond boundaries of their own area
• Travels as needed for role, including divisional / team meetings and other in-person meetings
• Fulfills…