Head of Engineering Excellence & Architecture – Global Specialty

VP IT Management - IM04AE

We’re determined to make a difference and are proud to be an insurance company that goes well beyond coverages and policies. Working here means having every opportunity to achieve your goals – and to help others accomplish theirs, too. Join our team as we help shape the future.   

         

The Head of Architecture and Engineering – Global Specialty is a senior technology leadership role responsible for defining the strategic direction, implementation, and transformation of enterprise technology platforms across Global Specialty insurance.

This leader will drive engineering maturity, define and elevate architecture standards, and enable innovation through cutting-edge technologies, including AI/ML, cloud-native solutions, DevSecOps, and modern engineering practices. This leader will interface with the Global Specialty CIO and other Global Specialty IT leaders to align business and IT with implementation roadmaps to transform current business and technology capabilities to a desired end-state.

The role demands deep expertise in software engineering, enterprise architecture, and platform engineering, with a strong track record of building high-performance engineering cultures.

This role can have a Hybrid or Remote work schedule.  Candidates who live near one of our office locations (Hartford, CT; Charlotte, NC; Chicago, IL; Columbus, OH; Red Bank, NJ; NYC; Morristown, NJ) will have the expectation of working in an office 3 days a week (Tuesday through Thursday)  Candidates who do not live near an office will have a remote work arrangement, with the expectation of coming into an office as business needs arise. Must be eligible to work in the US without company sponsorship.

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Key Responsibilities

Architecture Leadership & Governance

• Understand the GS Commercial Lines business products and ensure that the IT portfolio effectively supports and enables these products for the business.  

• Works with the Global Specialty CIO, extended IT leaders, business, and IT support teams to develop and maintain technical strategies and roadmaps that are aligned with the segment’s strategic direction to ensure that capabilities required by the business are enabled.

• Define and govern enterprise architecture standards to ensure consistency across Global Specialty platforms.

• Be a key technical contributor to the GenAI/AI uplift, acceleration, and execution in the Global Specialty IT organization.

• Review and guide solution designs, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and strategic roadmaps.

• Responsible for architecture governance of Global Specialty business segments investments to ensure they are compliant with IT strategy, architecture standards, and technology directions.

• Prepares and delivers comprehensive communications to convey IT architectural direction and how it aligns with enterprise strategies.

• Provides enterprise architectural leadership, guidance, and support for the broader architecture community.

• Has management responsibility of the solution architecture resources aligned to one or more business segments/value streams.

Engineering Maturity & Excellence

• Establish and scale engineering best practices for code quality, testing automation, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and resilience.

• Embed DevSecOps principles into the software delivery lifecycle, ensuring security and Introduce metrics-driven engineering maturity assessments to continuously improve productivity, quality, and speed-to-market.

• Foster engineering communities compliance from inception of practice to share knowledge, patterns, and reusable assets.

• Promote cloud-native and microservices-based architecture to improve agility, scalability, and maintainability.

Leadership & Talent Development

• Build a high-performance engineering organization through talent acquisition, mentoring, and succession planning.

• Cultivate a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and technical excellence.

• Act as a visible engineering leader who inspires teams to deliver world-class technology solutions.