Director of Enterprise Architecture

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It's an exciting time to join Brown & Brown!  Our business is growing both in North America and internationally which emphasizes the need to build an unparalleled team that promotes future growth. We're excited to continue solidifying that foundation as we are looking for an Enterprise Architect to join our growing Technology Solutions team!

The IT Enterprise Architect will play a pivotal role in the alignment of the business vision, technology strategy, and IT portfolio execution.  You will partner with Architects and domain experts across Brown & Brown’s divisions to bring together business leadership, business operations, project management, IT leadership, IT architecture and engineering to a common understanding of what it takes to deliver the business vision. You will be an integral part of the delivery of critical business outcomes, as well as the creation of technology strategies to leverage the IT portfolio to improve outcomes, create competitive advantages, reduce operational risk, and total cost of operations.

Who We Are:  Brown & Brown, Inc. is a growing global insurance brokerage firm delivering risk management solutions and services since 1939.  Our unique culture is built on honestly, integrity, innovation and discipline and defines who we are and how we treat our customers, teammates and the communities we serve.  We think of ourselves as a team, so we have teammates---not employees.  We prioritize health, family, and business---in that order.  We embrace and celebrate diversity, always striving to be an inclusive place where you have the power to be yourself.  Traded on the New York Stock Exchange as BRO, Brown & Brown is a big company that doesn’t act like one.

Who We Are Looking For:  We are looking for passionate team players who believe in working hard and having fun in a collaborative environment.  Our team is customer-focused and values the importance of strong relationships, professionalism, and trust.  We embrace solutions-oriented big thinkers who are committed to results and aren’t afraid to take risks.  We are driven to set goals high and aim even higher.

General Responsibilities:

• Partner with senior technology leadership to create a cross-functional, federated team that will drive Enterprise Architecture disciplines at Brown & Brown.

• Collaborate with business and technical teams and leadership to align and map the business vision and strategy to value streams, business capabilities and business functions.

• Collaborate with segment and domain architects, engineers, and leadership to create IT roadmaps, from current state architecture, to value streams and future domain capability models.

• Apply portfolio rationalization to map and document the coverage between Value Streams, Business Capabilities, and Technology Capabilities and identify opportunities for innovation, as well as reduction in risk, complexity and total cost of operations.

• Create, catalog, maintain and deliver the documentation and artifacts that describe the principles, standards, policies and methodologies of the enterprise architecture practice

• Advance architecture principles and standards with solution and domain architects

• Design a robust architecture design to meet business goals and ensure alignment with strategy

• Manage, track, and refine functional and technical domain target state and roadmaps

• Define technical standards and ensure solutions are aligned with the enterprise reference architecture standards, patterns and best practices.

• Prototype the tools and technologies that helps to evaluate early design decisions, improve predictability and to reduce risk

• Choose and adeptly use appropriate cloud services, technologies, tools, methodologies and solutions to make sure that the architecture is robust, integrated and aligned with the strategy and long-term objectives of the organization.

Required Qualifications:

• BA/BS in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field required; Master's Degree/MBA preferred.

• 15+ years of experience in software engineering, engineering management, and delivering large-scale transformation initiatives in retail required.

• Expert architecture and design skills with proven track record of doing so at organizations of high complexity and speed.

• Expert understanding of solution design and architecture standards.

• Cross-disciplinary technical expertise with development, operations, security, quality assurance, architecture and more.

• Experience in cloud technologies with a proven tr