The Arch Insurance Technology team has responsibility for solving human, technology, and business problems with innovative solutions. The Enterprise Architect, internally known as Domain Architect is someone who focuses on technical solutions and technology strategy for the domain (made up of multiple products and systems) to ensure technical solutions are of the highest standard, solutions are consistent with inline with the overall technical strategy of Arch, code and deployment efficiency, and technical, solution, and engineering best practices.​The incumbent will be an experienced, dynamic, solution-focused professional who is strategic, technology savvy, and focused on determining and delivering solutions that drive the most value. The focus would be on Enabling Technologies which includes Interoperability Layer (Mulesoft, Workato, Boomi), Intelligent Automation (Uipath, IDP tools), Digital Partners and Core Platforms – Insurance platforms (Insurity PDE and Sapiens PolicyWriter)

*This is a hybrid, twice a week role in our Raleigh, Jersey City, or Hartford offices.

Essential Characteristics

Leadership and Management

• Able to develop others, specifically as it pertains to solution architecture and technical architecture

• Strong influence, communication and stakeholder management skills. Able to engage and influence stakeholders at various levels and either distill or elevate the conversation based on the audience.

Technical

• Solution oriented, strong technical curiosity, technical problem solver

• Strong ability to convey technical concepts in a clear, understandable way

• Ability to re-purpose existing solutions to solve multiple problems

• Drive to understand how processes/tasks are executed across the domain

Business

• Enabler of key enterprise-wide architecture

• Abilty to contextualize solutions within business objectives in the P&C insurance industry

• Personal

• Great listening skills to transition pain points to solutions

• Ability to drive results and work well independently and as part of a team

• Proactive, hands-on mentality to identify and design solutions that result in increased business value

• Desire to learn new tech & market trends and drive large scale innovation

JOB SPECIFICATIONS

Core Responsibilities

Leadership, People and Talent

• Provide support in defining and establishing KPIs/OKRs that help measure the domain success from a technology standpoint

Strategy

• Create Technology roadmaps to ensure alignment with strategic direction of enterprise and domain, tech debt, modernization, rationalization, simplification

• Accountable to prepare solution design options with clear pros and cons

• Have an "enterprise perspective" and closely collaborate with fellow architects and security personnel to ensure and influence cohesive/efficient solutions meet enterprise direction

• Identify impacts and needs from other products to the solutions presented

• Captures & prioritizes market and technological trends, and identifies business benefits of alternative strategies

• Understand emerging technologies, Define ROI and competitive edge for innovative next generation technology solutions

• Collaboratively work with product and technical resources to understand problems and identify and guide solutions

Technical Management (Delivery, Product, Operations)

• Monitor and report on technical health and maturity of domains​

• Recommend technical solutions for the domain to ensure consistency and engineering practices that support the business outcomes and solutions in-use across the competitive landscape​

• Drive tech debt reduction, application/platform security, and compliance awareness​

• Provide support and guidance for technical proof of concepts and evaluation​

• Ensure technical/architecture documentation for the domain is up to date and complete in compliance with enterprise standards

Education & Experience

• Required knowledge & skills would typically be acquired through a Bachelor’s Degree in business, computer science or related field (or equivalent in experience) with at least 7 years related experience

• Interopoerability Layer experience - Mulesoft, Workato, or Boomi

• Application and service modernization including Cloud, Microservices, RESTful APIs, DevSecOps and containerization.

• Has experience with workbench that scales horizontally across different domains.

• Knowledge of insurance and/or financial sevices a plus.

Working Conditions/Environment & Physical Demands:

Normal office environment