Sr. Dir, Business Solutions Architecture

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

Project Management

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

$124,000.00 - $204,600.00

Target Openings

1

What Is the Opportunity?

This role is responsible for leading complex, large scope engagements with business and functional leadership and contributing business architecture expertise, rigor, and insight to teams defining, assessing, and planning to bridge strategy to execution

What Will You Do?

• Influences organizational direction in strategically complex and/or sensitive environments
• Partners with business to support strategy development
• Clarifies goals and strategy
• Designs, leads, and conducts business capability discovery and analysis (all levels of scope/complexity)
• Designs, leads, and conducts capability assessments (all levels of scope/complexity)
• Designs business and operating models
• Aligns metrics framework
• Establishes and monitors traceability and linkage between design and execution planning
• Leads ongoing improvement of the design over time
• Contributes to business architecture practice development
• Supports business architecture team development
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Leadership Skills (Advanced):
• Personally accountable.
• Demonstrated ability to interact and influence across levels of organization.
• Ability to drive outcomes.
• Increases organizational performance through coaching and mentoring.
• Influencing Skills (Advanced):
• Seeks opportunities to learn from and to influence others.
• Facilitate negotiations toward practical solutions.
• Relationship Management (Advanced):
• High emotional intelligence.
• Ability to consider the ideas of others; responds well to feedback.
• Ability to work independently, as a member of a team, and team lead.
• Demonstrated ability to build strong relationships with a diverse group of people at all levels in both business and IT areas across the Enterprise.
• Strong credibility; easily gains respect and trust from others.
• Organizational Skills (Advanced):
• Highly adaptable, with ability to proactively accommodate shifting priorities and aggressive timelines.
• Ability to organize work efficiently and effectively.
• Ability to see results to completion.
• Communication Skills (Advanced):
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Strong presentation skills.
• Highly effective facilitation skills within small or large group settings.
• Presents thoughts effectively with individuals at all levels within the organization including senior leaders.
• Ability to successfully collaborate within team and throughout organization to bring together desired results.
• Ability to convey information in accurate and consumable models.
• Ability to translate concepts into terms understandable by everyone.
• Problem Solving and Analysis Skills (Advanced):
• Ability to assimilate and correlate disconnected information, identify patterns, and articulate organizational relevance.
• Ability to solicit input, analyze data, draw conclusions and provide recommendations.
• Uses logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions.
• Ability to hold both a “big-picture” and a detailed view of a business problem when considering solutions.
• Creatively generates ideas with confidence.

What is a Must Have?

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience required.
• 7 years of demonstrated business experience, with thorough knowledge of business analysis, process improvement, business transformation, and/or business strategy development within complex organizations and business environ