Sr. Director of Architecture

What you'll be doing: Provide infrastructure architecture leadership to the organization. Take a lead role in the continued rollout and maturity of the architecture practice within the BI. Provide architectural strategic thinking, solutions and roadmaps while driving architectural recommendations. Maintain a plan to address significant architecture gaps between current and target state. Provide infrastructure design services to project teams. Solutions provided must meet availability requirements and adhere to travelers standards. Lead reuse, buy and build decisions. Ensure architectural compliance of solutions and introduce recommendations for changes to reference models when needed. Collaborate with business leaders to determine how to best use technology to enable growth and success. Participate in developing architecture resource strategy, operating model and resource plans to ensure effective and sustainable architecture function, as well as effective resource coverage to support all business insurance portfolios and functions. Participate in defining and driving the development of the architecture competencies, processes and practices across business insurance. Contribute to the growth of the business insurance architecture practice through mentoring candidates in project teams. Understand potential impacts of proposed solutions on other systems, processes or projects. Articulate and document these design considerations, tradeoffs, benefits and recommendations.

What your background should be: Minimum 12 years of work experience in enterprise and application architecture design is required. Strong technical skills in application servers, integration, cloud, security, deployment and configuration. Experience working with a structured architecture process. TOGAF (or similar) certification preferred.

Who is the client company: Concern about insurance and financial services.; If you are interested in this position, send your resume to apply@kochdavis.com