Enterprise Architect - Financial Assets (Work from Home)

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IT Architecture

About Us 

 

At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential unleashed by leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.  

 

Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment — one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there. 

    

Transamerica is a part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group. The Aegon companies employ over 21,500 people and have approximately 31.7 million customers.* For more information,  visit www.transamerica.com. 

 

Who We Are 

  

Transamerica has been making financial services available to the many, not just the few, for more than 100 years. We’re a leading provider of life insurance, retirement, and investment solutions, serving millions of customers throughout the United States. Transamerica’s dedicated professionals focus on helping people live their best lives through saving, investing, and protecting their loved ones. Transamerica is dedicated to building America’s leading middle market life insurance and retirement company, providing a broad range of quality individual life insurance policies, workplace supplemental insurance benefits, workplace retirement plans, individual retirement accounts, and investment products, including mutual funds, annuities, stable value solutions, as well as investment management services. 

 

What We Do 

 

Transamerica is organized by lines of business (Life Insurance, Annuities, Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, and Employee Benefits), which are supported by Transamerica Corporate (Corporate Development; Finance; Internal Audit; Legislative, Regulatory & Policy; Office of the CEO; People and Places; Brand; Corporate Affairs; Risk; and Technology). 

Job Description Summary

We are a remote first company - Work from where you are and bring your best self every day! The Specialist Enterprise Architecture for Financial Assets will lead the development of IT roadmaps and work collaboratively with the IT leadership team and key business leaders to shape and drive future IT investments. This role is focused on the design and development of modern architectures to enable a data-driven digital business. This role will define data strategies, grow capabilities, and develop the enterprise data platform by providing technology leadership, insight on new developments within the architecture space, and guidance in architectural and design decisions.

The business area alignment of this role is Financial Assets which supports over 15 million policies and dozens of products spanning life, health, and annuities that are no longer actively sold. You’ll have the opportunity to directly help people achieve A Lifetime of Financial Security by ensuring the technology is fit for purpose, resilient, secure, and cost effective. This position offers a unique opportunity to work with a variety of internal IT teams, global IT support functions, and business stakeholders across product lines to drive our IT application strategy through an alignment to business capabilities.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Serve as a subject matter expert and lead development programs and projects.
• Work directly with the business leaders to create and maintain a multi-year roadmap that solves long term business and policy holder challenges.
• Understand and ensure that applications meet the needs of the business capabilities.  Continuously maintain those capabilities in partnership with the business to stay a market leader.
• Work collaboratively with other architects, data scientists, analytics teams, and business product owners in an agile environment.
• Architect, build, and support the operation of Cloud and On-Premises enterprise data infrastructure and tools that adhere to enterprise architecture principles and standards across applications, infrastructure, and information security.
• Design robust, reusable and scalable data driven solutions and data pipeline frameworks to automate the ingestion, processing, and delivery of structured and unstructured batch and real-time streaming data.
• Lead the development of data APIs and data delivery services to support critical operational processes, analytical models, and machine learning applications.
• Lead the selection and integration of data related tools, frameworks and appli