Business & Technology Architect

Swiss Re; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Swiss Re seeks a Business & Technology Architect to shape GSTP business and technology architecture, ensuring secure, scalable, resilient services. You will partner with security leads, product teams and enterprise architects, driving architecture governance and standardized blueprints across global platforms. This hybrid role blends office collaboration with remote work, in a dynamic risk and resilience context.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in business and technology architecture within a complex enterprise environment.
• Deep expertise across architecture disciplines including business process modelling, service architecture and target architecture definition.
• Excellent communication skills in English, with the ability to articulate complex topics clearly to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own the GSTP services and platforms business architecture, mapping processes, capabilities, applications and infrastructure services.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture and identify gaps, risks and opportunities for simplification.
• Define and maintain service architecture artefacts, roadmaps and landscape documentation.
• Translate business needs into architecture requirements and concrete roadmaps for GSTP.
• Collaborate with technology, security, product owners and enterprise architects to stay aligned with business priorities.

Skills

Business architecture

Enterprise architecture

Stakeholder engagement

Communication skills

Architecture governance

Education

TOGAF certification

Tools

Azure

ITIL

Job description

Business & Technology Architect

Join a team of architecture and cybersecurity professionals and help Swiss Re fulfil its mission tomake the world more resilient. If you are passionate about shaping how technology and businesscapabilities come together to deliver secure, scalable and future-ready services — this role is for you.

About the Role

As the Business & Technology Architect, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and overseeing thebusiness and technology architecture of the Group Security and Technology Platforms (GSTP)division. You will ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, drive fit-for-purpose technicalcapabilities, and enable consistent, secure and resilient service delivery across GSTP platforms.Working in a hybrid setup, you will balance collaboration in the office with the flexibility of workingfrom home — bringing your best thinking to some of the most meaningful challenges in globalrisk and resilience.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the business architecture viewfor GSTP services and platforms, ensuring a clear andcomprehensive understanding of business processes, service capabilities, applications andinfrastructure services
• Review and ensure alignmentof GSTP services with enterprise architecture, proactivelyidentifying dependencies, architecture gaps, risks and opportunities for simplification andrationalisation
• Define and maintain service business architecture artefacts, including service capabilitymodels and application landscape documentation, keeping them accurate and actionable
• Support business process mapping and definitionfor GSTP services, translating complexbusiness needs into structured architecture requirements and forward-looking roadmaps
• Partner with diverse stakeholders— including technology and security leads, serviceowners, product teams and enterprise architects — to ensure GSTP platforms remainaligned with target architecture, business priorities and operational needs
• Champion continuous improvement, bringing curiosity, structure and a relentless drive tofind better ways of working every day.

About the Team

The Security Architecture team is the business, security and technology architecture function forthe Group Security & Technology Platforms (GSTP) division. Acting as a single, unifiedarchitectural voice towards the wider organisation, the team collaborates closely with distributedtechnology architects embedded in platform teams to gather detailed input, ensure alignmentand facilitate approvals.

The team owns the GSTP architecture governance system — encompassing the service, softwareand standard blueprint catalogues, the architecture validation approach and the control cataloguearchitecture. Through this ownership, Security Architecture ensures that services are catalogued,provisioned, consumed, operated and governed consistently — with secure, compliant,observable and resilient services available by default. It is a team that values clarity,collaboration and the belief that great architecture enables great outcomes.

About You

You are someone who believes deeply in the value of business and technology architecture as anenabler of service quality, performance and simplification. You bring a structured mindset, aproactive approach and the communication skills to navigate complex, multi-stakeholderenvironments with confidence and empathy. You thrive in environments where curiosity isrewarded and where your work has a tangible impact on how technology serves the business.

Nobody meets 100% of every requirement — and we genuinely mean that. If you connect withseveral of the criteria below and are excited by the prospect of working in a well-establishedcybersecurity and technology team, we would love to meet you.

Requirements

• Significant experience in business and technology architectureor application landscapemanagement within a complex enterprise environment, with a strong track record ofdelivering structured, impactful outcomes
• Deep expertise across several architecture disciplines, including one or more of the following:
  • Business process modelling, capability mapping and service business architecture
  • Enterprise architecture alignment, target architecture definition and architectureroadmap development
  • Application portfolio, platform and infrastructure service architecture
  • Technical debt assessment, architecture risk identification and pragmatic remediationplanning
  • Architecture documentation, decision records, governance artefacts and clearcommunication of complex architecture topics
  • Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with demonstrated ability to lead complexdiscussions across business, product, service owner, technology and enterprisearchitecture communities in a consulting and mediating capacity
  • Solid grasp of application development, platform operations, infrastructure services andservice lifecycle management, with familiarity in architecture governance and regulatedenterprise environments
  • Excellent communication skills— fluency in English (spoken and written), with the ability tocommunicate clearly, empathetically and in a solution-focused manner, and toindependently produce appropriate documentation
• These are additional nice to haves:
  • Relevant certifications or qualifications in business architecture, enterprise or technologyarchitecture, service management or cloud architecture — such as
  • TOGAF, ArchiMate, ITILorAzure architecture certifications.Security architecture certifications such asCISSPorCCSPorSANSqualifications
  • Experience working in or alongside cybersecurity functions, with an appreciation for howsecurity requirements shape architecture decisions
  • Familiarity with the impact of technology standards on service delivery in regulated, globalenterprise environments

Hybrid Work Model

Our company has a hybrid work model where the expectation is that you will be in the office atleast three days per week.

About Swiss Re

Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. We cover both Property & Casualty and Life & Health. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 15,000 employees across the world.

Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.

If you are an experienced professional returning to the workforce after a career break, we encourage you to apply for open positions that match your skills and experience.

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