AVP, Enterprise Architecture

TMG Insurance Services, LLC; Iowa (LA); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Life & disability insurance

Medical, dental, vision

Wellness incentives

Hybrid/remote options

Educational assistance

Generous PTO

Job summary

TMG Insurance Services, LLC is seeking an AVP, Enterprise Architecture to define and lead our enterprise architecture strategy across business capabilities, data, cloud, security, integration, and AI. You will shape target platforms and governance for a multi‑member shared services environment spanning Personal and Commercial lines.

You will advise senior leadership, drive platform rationalization, M&A integration, and ensure scalable, secure, and maintainable architectures across policy,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 15+ years of progressive technology and architecture experience, including 7+ years in leadership roles.
• Strong experience in P&C insurance and core platforms; multi‑tenant/shared services experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the enterprise architecture strategy across business, application, data, integration, cloud, security, and AI architecture.
• Lead multi‑member platform architecture for Personal and Commercial lines with reusable capabilities and member‑specific variation.
• Drive architecture governance, roadmaps, and standards; manage M&A integration and new member onboarding.

Skills

EA leadership

Cloud architecture

Security architecture

Data architecture

AI integration

Leadership

Stakeholder mgmt

M&A integration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

Overview

The AVP, Enterprise Architecture is a senior technology leader responsible for defining and driving the enterprise architecture strategy across business capabilities, applications, data, cloud, cybersecurity, integration, AI, and digital platforms. This role serves as the enterprise architecture authority for a multi‑member shared services environment supporting multiple mutual insurance companies across Personal and Commercial P&C lines of business. The leader will shape the target‑state architecture for scalable, reusable, and secure platforms that can support policy, billing, claims, underwriting, distribution, customer experience, agent experience, data, and AI‑enabled business processes. The position is critical in advancing a multi‑member platform strategy that enables business flexibility, operating leverage, common capabilities, and controlled member‑specific variation across the mutual insurance model.

Accountabilities & Responsibilities

• Enterprise Architecture Strategy and Leadership
  • Define and lead the enterprise architecture strategy across business, application, data, integration, cloud, security, and AI architecture.
  • Create and maintain current‑state and target‑state architecture blueprints, capability maps, platform roadmaps, reference architecture, and modernization plans.
  • Serve as senior architecture advisor to the CITO and technology leadership team, providing clear recommendations on major platform, modernization, integration, vendor, and investment decisions.
• Multi‑Member P&C Platform Architecture
  • Lead the architecture strategy for a scalable multi‑member platform supporting Personal and Commercial P&C lines of business across policy administration, billing, claims, underwriting, rating, forms, documents, data, reporting, and digital channels.
  • Define common enterprise capabilities that can be reused across member companies while allowing appropriate member‑specific configuration, product variation, regulatory variation, and operational flexibility.
  • Guide architecture decisions for core insurance platforms, including Guidewire PolicyCenter, BillingCenter, ClaimCenter, digital portals, customer communications, underwriting workbenches, data platforms, and integration layers.
  • Drive platform rationalization, simplification, and reuse to reduce duplication, improve maintainability, and create a foundation for onboarding future mutual members efficiently.
• M&A and New Member Integration
  • Provide architecture leadership for M&A, affiliation, onboarding, or integration of new P&C insurance companies into the shared services and technology platform model.
  • Define integration patterns for acquired or affiliated companies, including data migration, system interoperability, platform onboarding, identity and access, reporting, business process alignment, and technology rationalization.
  • Partner with business, operations, finance, legal, security, data, and delivery teams to evaluate technology implications of new member onboarding and ensure integration plans are scalable, secure, and executable.
  • Develop repeatable playbooks and architectural standards for integrating new companies, products, books of business, and operational capabilities into the enterprise platform.
• Architecture Governance and Standards
  • Lead the Architecture Review Board and related governance forums, establishing clear standards, decision rights, exception processes, architecture principles, and documentation expectations.
  • Review major solutions, vendor platforms, integration designs, cloud architectures, data flows, security patterns, and AI‑enabled capabilities to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards.
  • Track architecture health through metrics such as platform reuse, technical debt reduction, application rationalization, integration reuse, security compliance, resiliency, and delivery acceleration.
• Cloud, Integration, Data, AI, and Security Architecture
  • Guide cloud‑native and hybrid architecture across AWS, Azure, infrastructure‑as‑code, containers, observability, DevSecOps, resilience, disaster recovery, and operational supportability.
  • Drive API‑first, event‑driven, and modular integration patterns using modern integration technologies, middleware, APIs, messaging, and data exchange standards.
  • Lead enterprise data architecture direction, including data domains, canonical models, master and reference data, lineage, metadata, data quality, reporting, analytics, and AI readiness.
  • Define AI‑first architecture patterns for intelligent automation, document processing, underwriting, claims, customer service, software delivery, and IT operations with appropriate human‑in‑the‑loop, auditability, privacy, and governance controls.
  • Partner with cybersecurity, risk, and compliance teams to embed security‑by‑design, zero trust, privacy, regulatory compliance, and secure SDLC practices into enterprise architecture.
• Executive Partnership and Team Leadership
  • Partner with business executives, product leaders, engineering teams, security, infrastructure, data, operations, vendors, and SI partners to align priorities, resolve tradeoffs, and remove architectural blockers.
  • Build, coach, and develop architecture talent across enterprise, solution, data, integration, cloud, security, and application architecture disciplines.
  • Establish architecture communities of practice, reusable playbooks, standards, and patterns that raise architecture maturity across technology delivery teams.
  • Lead from the front by staying close to complex initiatives, challenging assumptions, simplifying complexity, and ensuring architecture decisions translate into measurable business and technology outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 15+ years of progressive technology and architecture experience, including 7+ years in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or architecture leadership roles.
• Strong experience in P&C insurance, including policy, billing, claims, underwriting, rating, distribution, documents, customer/agent experience, and regulatory considerations.
• Hands‑on experience with core insurance platforms such as Guidewire, Duck Creek, Insurity, or similar; multi‑platform experience preferred.
• Experience designing or leading multi‑tenant, multi‑member, shared services, or platform‑based architectures across multiple business entities.
• Experience with M&A, affiliation, onboarding, or integration of P&C insurance companies, including platform consolidation, data migration, system integration, and operating model alignment.
• Strong technical fluency across cloud platforms, APIs, event‑driven architecture, data platforms, AI/ML integration, cybersecurity, DevSecOps, observability, and modern engineering practices.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior executives, partner with business leaders, lead architecture governance, and make sound tradeoff decisions across cost, speed, risk, scalability, and business value.
• Strong leadership qualities, including hands‑on leadership, thought leadership, analytical reasoning, meticulous planning, delivery ownership, collaboration, and the ability to build high‑performing architecture teams.
• Security, privacy, customer experience, and business outcome mindset, with a practical approach to building scalable, reusable, and resilient enterprise platforms.

Pay Range

Anticipated Hiring Range: $200,000 – $250,000 annual base salary, depending on experience, qualifications, and geographic location.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary plus incentive plans for eligible team members
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match up to 6% of your eligible salary
• Free basic life and AD&D, long‑term disability, and short‑term disability insurance
• Medical, dental, and vision plans
• Wellness incentives
• Generous time off program, including personal, holiday, and volunteer paid time off
• Flexible work schedules and hybrid/remote options for eligible positions
• Educational assistance

EEO Statement

The Mutual Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We recruit, hire, train and promote individuals in all job classifications without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Other Information

• Work Arrangement: Employees who live within 30 miles of the TMG home office are expected to follow a hybrid or in‑office schedule. Initial training may require additional in‑office days.
• Employment Verification: The Mutual Group participates in the E‑Verify program.
• Background Check: All offers of employment are contingent upon the successful completion of a background check.