Cybersecurity Lead Architect

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

$165,000.00 - $272,200.00

Target Openings

1

What Is the Opportunity?

Collaborative Environment, Transformational Projects and a Growing Team!

As a member of Enterprise Technology Solutions, you’ll 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 Cybersecurity Lead Architect within the Enterprise Architecture organization, you will collaborate with senior Technology, Cybersecurity, 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:

• Lead complex IAM architecture efforts to strengthen overall identity security.
• Provide architect support for Zero Trust hardening.
• Deliver key architectural artifacts for application security, data security, and threat and vulnerability management modernization efforts.
• Define and lead proof of concept efforts in support of overall Cybersecurity modernization.

What Will You Do?

• Provide architecture responsibility for the Cybersecurity business unit.
• Works with the Senior leadership within Technology and Business to develop architecture priorities and direction to enable business imperatives.
• Lead complex IAM efforts including customer identity strengthening, access modernization, RBAC, MFA for internal applications.
• Provide cybersecurity architecture support for Zero Trust Network Access efforts.
• Provide thought leadership and architecture support for application security, threat management and overall vulnerability management capability modernization.
• Deliver, publish and socialize cyber architecture patterns, guidelines and decision records.
• Provide technical leadership to help drive cyber architecture efforts to closure.
• Drives continuous technology transformation to minimize technical debt.
• Create a partnership with Senior Software Engineering leadership.
• Look 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 architecture solutions.
• Hands-on prototyping of new technology solutions.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Bachelor’s in technology related field or equivalent with 10+ years of technology architecture experience.
• Provided mentorship to architecture leaders.

• Provide Cybersecurity Architecture thought leadership over Generative AI security solutions. 

• Organizational and transformational Leadership Experience in an agile operating model.
• Establishes strategic technology direction and architecture vision for an organization.
• Expert level Software Engineering experience.
• Developed technology target state, roadmaps that aligned to Short- and Long-term business goals.
• Proven track record of Influencing C-level leadership.
• Insurance technology experience.
• Strong grasp of value creation and business capability models.
• AWS Security Specialty Certification preferred.
• 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, and DevSecOps.
• Cloud Architecture Certification (AWS, GCP, or Azure) or strong architecture experience on Cloud.
• Strong understanding of Identity and Access Management (IAM)approaches, technology and procedure.
• Working knowledge of Zero Trus