Senior Architect, Europe

The Travelers; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

The Travelers Europe seeks a Senior Architect to lead architectural and technology strategy in a major transformation for the insurance business. You will guide initiatives rooted in Common Delivery, Services-Based Architecture, and Agile delivery, steering API and event-driven approaches across the technology estate.

You will provide visionary technical leadership for complex applications, shape our technology and API strategies, and help drive governance, design reviews, and day-to-day

Qualifications

• Proven ability to lead architecture strategy in large programs.
• Experience in enterprise, application and information architecture.
• Understanding of SDLC and product/project management.
• Knowledge of Java, .NET, SQL and SOA reference architectures.
• Ability to influence stakeholders in a matrixed organization.

Responsibilities

• Participates in or leads parts of solution roadmaps and architectural recommendations.
• Facilitates governance processes (blueprint/design reviews) for projects.
• Ensures stability and performance at application and technology domains.
• Prioritizes remediation and escalation for performance issues.
• Contributes to adoption of new concepts, techniques, and best practices.
• Collaborates with other architects and development groups.

Skills

Architecture directions

Enterprise architecture

SDLC knowledge

Java / .NET / SQL / SOA

Influencing in matrixed org

Multi-technology experience

Insurance industry knowledge

Stakeholder engagement

Development guidance

Tools

J2EE

WebSphere

JBoss

Datapower

Spring

Struts

Hibernate

MVC

DB2/400

MS SQL Server

FileNet

Job description

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.

If youre ready to make a lasting impact, we invite you to apply and join us on this thrilling journey!

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.