Architect (Business Rules)

Posted:
3/5/2024, 8:44:20 AM

Location(s):
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States ⋅ Hartford, Connecticut, United States

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Business & Strategy

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 Business Rules Architect, you will lead the effort to create the next generation of business rules and process architecture. You'll be joining a team focused on collaboration, sharing information, continually challenging the status quo, and arriving at decisions through constructive debates and discussions. Reporting directly to a member of the Enterprise Technology Solutions leadership team, you will interface with senior technology leaders to transform our current business and technology capabilities. Your role involves creating the technology target state for the Enterprise Payment and Billing Unit of a global Dow 30 company, paving the way for best-in-class solutions.

What Will You Do?

  • Architecture responsibility for creating business rules strategy and solutions for modern Payment and Billing platforms.
  • Collaborate with business partners and product owner to understand business requirements and goals and assist with business rules harvesting and decision modeling.
  • Monitor and evaluate decision outcomes and partner with product owners to optimize existing business rules to ensure alignment with established business goal and objectives.
  • Lead the design and implementation of business rules, ensuring seamless integration with business processes and systems.
  • Ensure the alignment of the decision models and business rules within end-to-end processes.
  • Establish and implement comprehensive frameworks and industry-leading practices for modeling, documenting, and analyzing business rules and processes.
  • Displays strong thought leadership in pursuit of modern architecture principals and technology modernization.
  • Drives continuous technology transformation to minimize technical debt.
  • Evaluate existing processes and systems to identify opportunities for implementing business rules to support Travelers Payment and Billing ecosystem.
  • Ensure alignment of business processes with technical capabilities and target state roadmap
  • Builds strong partnership with engineering to ensure proper alignment of skills with technology direction.
  •  Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture to develop a unified approach to business rules and process implementations.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

  • Bachelor’s degree in technology related field or equivalent with 4+ years of technology Engineering experience
  • 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
  • Executed large scale Business Rules implementation
  • Current experience with leading commercial Business Rules Engine
  • 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
  • Current experience with AWS, APIs, accelerators, DevSecOps
  • Cloud Architecture Certification (AWS, GCP, or Azure) or strong architecture experience on Cloud
  • Good understanding of security
  • 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 and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals. In addition, our Life Balance program provides access to professional counseling services, life coaching and other resources to support your daily life needs. Through Life Balance, you’re eligible for five free counseling sessions with a licensed therapist.
  • 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 back to the charity of your choice.

Employment Practices

Travelers is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that we can deliver the very best products and services when our workforce reflects the diverse customers and communities we serve. We are committed to recruiting, retaining and developing the diverse talent of all of our employees and fostering an inclusive workplace, where we celebrate differences, promote belonging, and work together to deliver extraordinary results. 


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Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting.

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