Solution Architect - Policy Platforms

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

$123,000.00 - $203,000.00

Target Openings

1

What Is the Opportunity?

As a member of Enterprise Technology Solutions, you will be joining a strategic and collaborative team that is passionate about transforming our business and technology capabilities and paving the way for best-in-class solutions.

As a Solution Architect supporting Personal Insurance, you will collaborate with technology and business leaders and apply your knowledge of modern technology to influence and innovate solutions that impact the business. In this role we will look to you to:

Be results-driven with strong architecture and engineering skills, and expertise in application architecture, Cloud-native design patterns, APIs, and Event-driven architecture.

Be a person of high integrity, who believes in challenging the status quo when needed, while always first seeking to understand and be curious.

Define solution architectures that meet business requirements and performance standards.

Let us help you accelerate your career as we grow our team and transform our business!

What Will You Do?

• A key objective for the individual in this role is to accelerate our modernization of Personal Insurance Policy Platforms.
• They should be able to collaborate and learn from technology and business partners regarding the current landscape of policy processing.
• They will create actionable architectures that will enable other applications (e.g. Front ends, Middle tier, Data & Analytics) to integrate seamlessly with the Policy systems.
• They will create modernization roadmaps for policy systems, aligned with the target states defined for Personal Insurance and Travelers as a whole.
• Leads technology proof of concepts to ensure feasibility of architecture solutions.
• Hands-on prototyping of new technology solutions.
• Partner with Software Engineering to execute proof of technologies.
• Provides architecture direction for engineers in support of a technical pattern.
• 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 Software Engineering.
• Looks for opportunities to capitalize on technology advances through analysis of key industry and technology trends to assess potential impact on the enterprise.
• Participates in defining 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.
• Continuously improve efficiency and effectiveness of the architecture.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Bachelors in technology related field or equivalent with 4+ years of technology Engineering experience.
• Strong knowledge of programming languages such as Java, C#, etc.
• Current experience with AWS, APIs, accelerators, DevSecOps.
• Cloud Architecture Certification (AWS, GCP, or Azure) or strong architecture experience on Cloud.
• Good understanding of security.
• Prior experience with Insurance domain preferred.
• Ability to create actionable design patterns and architectures within complex technology landscapes.
• 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.
• Strong grasp of value creatio