Senior Architect (Engineering Enablement)

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 170 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

$139,400.00 - $230,000.00

Target Openings

1

What Is the Opportunity?

Travelers is seeking a Senior Architect to join our organization as we grow and transform our Enterprise Technology Solutions organization. As a Senior Architect for DevSecOps Platform Transformation within the Enterprise Technology Solutions Architecture organization, you will serve as the primary technical advocate for our internal engineering customers as engineering teams increasingly build and deploy AI-powered solutions. You
will build trust-based relationships across all lines of business, translate engineering needs into platform strategy, and influence enterprise-wide technical direction. Impact comes through advocacy, architecture, influence, and engineering teams implementing what you champion.

What Will You Do?

• Build trust-based relationships with engineering leaders and practitioners across all lines of business.
• Responsible for architecture within one or more segments or domains for a single business unit.
• Advocate for engineering customers while balancing enterprise compliance standards.
• Technical Execution:
• Help define and lead technology proof of concepts to ensure feasibility of architecture solutions.
• Participate in driving continuous technology transformation to minimize technical debt.
• Conduct hands-on prototyping and technology proof of concepts.
• Partner with leadership to ensure proper alignment with technology direction and execution of proof of technologies.
• Strategic Accountability:
• Define target state architecture and roadmaps.
• Proactively identify opportunities from emerging technology trends to minimized technical debt.
• Support technology modernization initiatives.
• Deliver comprehensive communications about architectural direction.
• Cultivate strong relationships and secure buy-in.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Technical Expertise & Education:
• Bachelor’s in technology related field or equivalent, with 8 years of architecture experience.

• Currently active in DevSecOps platform architecture with deep hands-on experience

• Expert knowledge of CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI)

• Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, AWS CDK)

• Deep understanding of artifact management, secrets management, supply chain security

• Current AWS cloud architecture certification or equivalent depth.

• Software engineering background with ability to evaluate approaches and guide implementation

  Understanding of agentic solution architectures and AI-assisted engineering workflows

• Strong architecture and recent hands-on engineering experience with modern technologies.
• Successfully architected large scale technology initiatives.
• Leadership & Influence:
• Advanced leadership skills with the ability to take action even when there is no clear owner, inspire and motivate others, and be effective at influencing team members.
• Strategic & Business Acumen:
• Extensive experience working an agile operational model.
• Experience supporting transformational change. Able to adjust plans, priorities and strategies in response to changing circumstances.
• Insurance technology experience preferred.
• Understanding of value creation and business capability models.

• Balance customer advocacy with enterprise governance (audit, legal, cyber, infrastructure)

• Experience in identifying and analyzing current/future problems and opportunities, evaluating information to understand root causes, and explo