Solution Architect - Policy Platforms

Who Are We?

Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That's the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 160 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.

Job Category

Technology

Compensation Overview

The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.

Salary Range

$118,800. 00 - $196,000. 00

Target Openings

1

What Is the Opportunity?

As a member of Enterprise Technology Solutions, you will be joining a strategic and collaborative team that is passionate about transforming our business and technology capabilities and paving the way for best-in-class solutions.

As a Solution Architect supporting Personal Insurance, you will collaborate with technology and business leaders and apply your knowledge of modern technology to influence and innovate solutions that impact the business. In this role we will look to you to:

Be results-driven with strong architecture and engineering skills, and expertise in application architecture, Cloud-native design patterns, APIs, and Event-driven architecture.

Be a person of high integrity, who believes in challenging the status quo when needed, while always first seeking to understand and be curious.

Define solution architectures that meet business requirements and performance standards.

Let us help you accelerate your career as we grow our team and transform our business!

What Will You Do?

• A key objective for the individual in this role is to accelerate our modernization of Personal Insurance Policy Platforms.

• They should be able to collaborate and learn from technology and business partners regarding the current landscape of policy processing.

• They will create actionable architectures that will enable other applications (e. g. Front ends, Middle tier, Data & Analytics) to integrate seamlessly with the Policy systems.

• They will create modernization roadmaps for policy systems, aligned with the target states defined for Personal Insurance and Travelers as a whole.

• Leads technology proof of concepts to ensure feasibility of architecture solutions

• Hands-on prototyping of new technology solutions

• Partner with Software Engineering to execute proof of technologies

• Provides architecture direction for engineers in support of a technical pattern

• Displays strong thought leadership in pursuit of modern architecture principals and technology modernization

• Drives continuous technology transformation to minimize technical debt

• Create a partnership with Software Engineering

• Looks for opportunities to capitalize on technology advances through analysis of key industry and technology trends to assess potential impact on the enterprise

• Participates in defining target state technology architecture and roadmaps

• Ensures alignment of IT initiatives with the target state

• Builds strong partnership with engineering to ensure proper alignment of skills with technology direction

• Continuously improve efficiency and effectiveness of the architecture

• Perform other duties as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Bachelors in technology related field or equivalent with 4+ years of technology Engineering experience

• Strong knowledge of programming languages such as Java, C#, etc.

• Current experience with AWS, APIs, accelerators, DevSecOps

• Cloud Architecture Certification (AWS, GCP, or Azure) or strong architecture experience on Cloud

• Good understanding of security

• Prior experience with Insurance domain preferred.

• Ability to create actionable design patterns and architectures within complex technology landscapes.

• Organizational experience in an agile operating model

• Established work in proof of concepts and technology

• Strong proven Software Engineering experience

• Supports technology target state, roadmaps that aligned to Short- and Long-term business goals

• Insurance technology experience desired

• Strong grasp of value creation and business capability models

• Innovation and Continuous Improvement

• Must be passionate about technology transformations

• Has hands on experience in the last 3 years

• Executed technology modernization initiatives including migration to cloud native and API Strategy

• Experienced with large scale technology platforms

What is a Must Have?

• Bachelor's degree or its equivalent in work experience.

• Five years of experience in engineering software or analytic applications within a line of business area

What Is in It for You?

• Health Insurance : Employees and their eligible family members - including spouses, domestic partners, and children - are eligible for coverage from the first day of employment.

• Retirement: Travelers matches your 401(k) contributions dollar-for-dollar up to your first 5% of eligible pay, subject to an annual maximum. If you have student loan debt, you can enroll in the Paying it Forward Savings Program. When you make a payment toward your student loan, Travelers will make an annual contribution into your 401(k) account. You are also eligible for a Pension Plan that is 100% funded by Travelers.

• Paid Time Off: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 20 days Paid Time Off annually, plus nine paid company Holidays.

• Wellness Program: The Travelers wellness program is comprised of tools, discounts and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals and caregiving needs. In addition, our mental health program provides access to free professional counseling services, health coaching and other resources to support your daily life needs.

• Volunteer Encouragement: We have a deep commitment to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards program that enables you to give .