Senior Architect, Europe

The Travelers; Leeds; Híbrido; GBP 90.000 - 120.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Hybrid work policy

Descripción de la vacante

The Travelers seeks an experienced Senior Architect to lead and shape technology architecture for a major transformation in the insurance sector. You will guide concepts around Common Delivery, Services-Based Architecture, and agility, while driving API and event-driven approaches across the technology estate.

You will mentor teams, govern architectural reviews, and advance the strategic technology roadmap in collaboration with stakeholders.

Formación

• Experience with enterprise and information architecture.
• Knowledge of SDLC and project management.

Responsabilidades

• Lead solution roadmaps and architectural recommendations.
• Governance through blueprint and design reviews.
• Improve stability and performance at applications level.
• Influence portfolio prioritization and remediation strategies.
• Collaborate with architects and development teams.
• Own deliverables for centers of excellence and POCs.
• Participate in production support of utilities.
• Contribute to vendor and product management strategies.
• Execute architectural strategy daily.

Conocimientos

Java

NET

SQL

SOA

Web Services

Herramientas

WebSphere

JBoss

Datapower

FileNet

Spring

Hibernate

MS SQL Server

DB2/400

REST

Descripción del empleo

Join our innovative team of Architects at the forefront of a major transformation program within the insurance industry.
As a Senior Architect, you will play a pivotal role in revolutionising our technology systems. Embrace the power of AI as we integrate cutting-edge technology across all facets of our business and technology landscape.
In this exciting role, you will support the execution of architectural and technological strategies that drive the development and implementation of initiatives rooted in Common Delivery, Services-Based Architecture, and Agility. Your leadership will be instrumental in shaping our Technology and API strategies, leveraging increased automation through APIs and event-driven architectures across our technology estate.
You will provide visionary technical leadership for complex applications, guiding our team through the intricacies of modern architecture.

Travelers Europe currently offers flexibility to employees who wish to work on a hybrid basis in accordance with our Hybrid Work Arrangements Policy. This entails full time employees working three days a week in the office and two days at home (or pro rata for part-time employees). This policy may be changed at the Company's discretion.

What Will You Do?

• Participates in or leads part of efforts in association with solutions, roadmaps, and architectural recommendations.
• Depending on size of application or scope of project, facilitates and/or executes the governance process (i.e. blueprint and design reviews) for projects.
• Implements the strategy for stability and performance of solutions (including - project level design, debug and performance analysis) at the applications and technology domains level.
• Provides input into portfolio or prioritization process as well as how escalation for remediation of application stability and performance will be managed for scope. Ability to prioritize on his/her own.
• Contributes to and influences adoption of new concepts, ideas, techniques, best practices and technology assistance (best practices, guidelines and models for supported technologies.).
• Collaborates with other architects, development groups, and OAI-Sys employees.
• May participate in enterprise engagements and initiatives like Centers of Excellence and owns deliverables associated with these efforts.
• May participate in development and production support of application utilities and owns deliverables associated with these efforts.
• May participate in vendor and product management strategies to establish required infrastructures and frameworks and owns deliverables associated with these efforts.
• Owns deliverables associated with product evaluations and Proof of Concepts'.
• Participates in the day to day execution of the architectural strategy.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Working knowledge of architecture technology directions.
• Working knowledge in enterprise, application, and information architecture.
• Working knowledge of product and/or project management and Software development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• General knowledge of technical reference architectures in Java, .NET, SQL and SOA required.
• General knowledge of experience with influencing people in a matrixed organization.
• Thorough knowledge of experience in multiple technologies and architectures.
• General knowledge of Insurance industry experience.
• General knowledge of experience in engaging with business stakeholders and turning requirements into IT solutions required.
• General knowledge of experience in providing architecture guidance to Development Teams.
• Thorough knowledge of experience in multiple technologies and architectures including:
• J2EE.
• Web Application Development (User & B2B).
• Service-Oriented Architecture & Web Services (SOAP, XML, REST).
• Application Frameworks (Spring, Struts, Hibernate, MVC, etc.).
• Middleware Technologies (Websphere, JBoss, Datapower).
• Relational Database Design (DB2/400, MS SQL Server).
• Document, Imaging, and Web Content Management (FileNet).
• Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, and ETL.
• Transaction Design (OLTP, Batch).
• Component Based Design.
• Application Integration.
• Performance Engineering.
• Demonstrates analytical and dia

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 170 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.