Sr. Director Architecture - Enterprise Data Product/Data Management

Tulsa, OK, United States

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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

$155,400.00 - $256,500.00

Target Openings

1

What Is the Opportunity?

As a Senior Director of Architecture, you will help lead the effort to create the technology target state for the Enterprise Data and Analytics Unit of a global, Dow 30 company. As a direct report to a member of the Enterprise Architecture and Emerging Technology leadership team, you will interface directly with senior technology leaders to transform our current business and technology capabilities and pave the way for best-in-class solutions. You will be a dedicated partner to senior Technology and Business leaders as you define a target state, roadmaps and identify new and emerging technologies that will transform and optimize the business. As an organizational leader, you will humbly serve and inspire a team of high-performing Architects who you will coach, mentor, and empower. As a successful candidate, you are a visionary executive with a track record of building high-quality enterprise solutions and teams. You are results-driven and bring strong Architecture and engineering skills and a deep understanding of modern technologies including Cloud-native, APIs, AI, and ML. You are a person of high integrity, who believes in challenging the status quo when needed, while always first seeking to understand. You will work within a community of architecture leaders, charged with establishing and evolving a unified architecture vision.

What Will You Do?

Organizational responsibility a segment of Technology Architecture in support of the Enterprise Data and Analytic business unit

Works with the Senior leadership within Technology and Business to develop architecture priorities and direction to enable business imperatives

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 Senior Software Engineering leadership

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

Defines and leads technology proof of concepts to ensure feasibility of new technology architecture solutions

Defines 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

Prepares and delivers comprehensive communications to convey architectural direction and how it aligns with enterprise strategy

Optimizes talent strategy to ensure proper mix of resources and attracts and recruits best talent

Continuously improve efficiency and effectiveness of the architecture

Perform other duties as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

Bachelor’s in technology related field or equivalent with 7+ years of technology Architecture experience

Provided mentorship to architecture team

Organizational and transformational Leadership Experience in an agile operating model

Help define strategic technology direction and architecture vision for an organization

Expert level Software Engineering experience

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

Proven track record of Influencing senior leadership

Insurance technology experience

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

Experience modernizing data technology and information architecture on cloud

Exposure and understanding of advanced analytics techniques using ML and AI

Hands on experience with data technologies on cloud

Hands on experience with Master Data Management solutions (Informatica)

What is a Must Have?

Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent in work experience

Eight years of experience in enterprise, application, and/or information architecture within a line of business or enterprise area

Two years of previous management experience

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 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.

In accordance with local law, candidates seeking employment in Colorado are not required to disclose dates of attendance at or graduation from educational institutions.

If you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email ([email protected]) so we may assist you.

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

To learn more about our comprehensive benefit programs please visit http://careers.travelers.com/life-at-travelers/benefits/ .

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