Enterprise Architect

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (AJG); Rolling Meadows (IL); Remote; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a visionary Enterprise Architect to lead the transformation of financial and retirement services. This fully remote position offers the chance to design state-of-the-art IT architecture and collaborate with executive leadership to drive strategic initiatives. You will play a pivotal role in shaping the digital strategy and optimizing the IT landscape, ensuring compliance with emerging standards. Join a dynamic team where your expertise will influence decision-making and foster innovation across the organization. If you're ready to make a significant impact in a supportive and inclusive environment, this opportunity is for you.

Benefits

Medical/dental/vision plans

Life and accident insurance

401(K) and Roth options

Tax-advantaged accounts (HSA, FSA)

Educational expense reimbursement

Paid parental leave

Flexible work hours

Digital mental health services

Training programs

Charitable matching gift program

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture and cloud environments.
• Hands-on experience in designing enterprise-grade software solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design and establish a flexible digital architecture aligned with business needs.
• Lead enterprise architecture activities to guide business and technology alignment.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Cloud Transformation

Application Integration

Agile Methodologies

Software Engineering

Technical Advisory

Stakeholder Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Azure

CI/CD

DevOps

Job description

Introduction

Discover a world of endless possibilities at Gallagher Benefit Services, where you'll have the power to shape the future of workplaces across industries. As a member of our team, you become the driving force behind positive change, helping clients build environments where employees thrive. Embrace the opportunity to impact lives, unlock potential, and create a legacy of remarkable transformation.

We believe that every candidate brings something special to the table, including you! So, even if you feel that you’re close but not an exact match, we encourage you to apply.

Overview

Enterprise Architect - GBS Financial & Retirement Services

Gallagher Benefit Services, Inc. (GBS), a division of Gallagher, consistently stands out in a competitive marketplace as an employer of knowledgeable, highly skilled and competitive talent. We are a company that touches businesses and their employees on a personal level. At the core, our job is to help protect the health and well-being of employees and their families and provide for their financial security—all while allowing employers to attract and retain the people they need to grow and succeed.

Please note additional position details below:

• This is a Temp-To-Hire, W-2, T4 position. We are not able to do incorporation, 1099 or C2C.
• It is a fully remote role that will need to be based in the U.S. or Canada.
• You must meet our U.S. and Canada eligibility requirements for work authorization.

Position Summary

Role Summary: The GBS Financial and Retirement Services business brings together foundational strategic technology capabilities that support and enable customer and sales experiences throughout the enterprise. We are seeking a highly skilled Enterprise Architect with an impactful strategic and technology mindset to drive the solution management framework for the organization, efficient technical solutions for unique business needs, and develop the technology strategic roadmap.

How you'll make an impact

• Designing and establishing a modular, state of the art digital & IT architecture that is flexible and scalable with business needs and supports business differentiating initiatives with state-of-the-art, tailored solutions.
• Working with executive leadership to design the digital strategy with the product teams and the business to guide IT investment decisions and to build the transformation roadmap.
• Proactively and holistically leading and supporting Enterprise Architecture activities that strategically guide business and operating models, people, processes and technology.

About You

• Serve as the technical advisors to the Executive Leadership.
• Developing and maintaining the target architecture across Data, Applications, Infrastructure, Security and Compliance to realize digital strategy, optimize the IT landscape and handle technical debt.
• Set architecture principles and standards (in collaboration with DAs and SAs) and handle a central architecture repository / SharePoint site.
• Advisory and stewardship of realization strategies and execution of transformation projects.
• Working closely with strategy and business leaders to create alignment between business and IT.
• Ensure compliance with established and emerging standards, including regulatory requirements, through collaboration with Cyber Security team and participation on Architecture Review Boards (ARBs) & Strategic Architecture Review Boards (SARB).
• Catalyze the architecture community of practice (CoP) and handle Architecture repositories (e.g., tech standards, artifacts, etc.).
• Facilitate application health assessment and technology debt identification (including application portfolio rationalization).
• Provide metrics, guidance and mentoring across the enterprise’s architecture community.
• Ensure connectivity with overall corporate Enterprise Arch / GTS.
• EA special projects related to technology architecture – such as M365 architecture, M&A support, etc.

Required

• Experience driving the development of enterprise architecture standards, processes, and artifacts at an enterprise level.
• 10+ years of active architecture, design, engineering, and implementation experience in a complex enterprise cloud environment.
• Demonstrated recent hands-on experience in the design, solutioning, engineering, and/or successful implementation of enterprise-grade software products.
• Deep experience with enterprise cloud transformation projects at-scale, including IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS - primarily in Azure.
• Demonstrated recent hands-on engineering experience with core application integration technologies such as restful, event driven, and microservices technologies for large scale environments.
• Proven ability to influence decision-making at all levels within an organization, and in a variety of contexts.
• Recent experience with agile development methodologies, with a focus on SAFe and ARTs.
• Recent hand-on experience with modern software engineering concepts (e.g. CI/CD, DevOps, containers, microservices, etc.).
• Subject matter expertise in one or more software engineering specialties with broad exposure to relevant technology domains.
• Demonstrated expertise in designing highly available, fault-tolerant, and highly scalable cloud native platforms and solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to optimize the performance of enterprise software systems and/or components.
• Be a compelling storyteller with experience communicating complex technical concepts and ideas to engineers and non-engineers alike.
• Experience with Customer and Sales domains preferred; FinTech experience highly desirable.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.

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Compensation and benefits

On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.

Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

• Medical/dental/vision plans, which start from day one!
• Life and accident insurance.
• 401(K) and Roth options.
• Tax-advantaged accounts (HSA, FSA).
• Educational expense reimbursement.
• Paid parental leave.

Other benefits include:

• Digital mental health services (Talkspace).
• Flexible work hours (availability varies by office and job function).
• Training programs.
• Gallagher Thrive program – elevating your health through challenges, workshops and digital fitness programs for your overall wellbeing.
• Charitable matching gift program.
• And more...

We value inclusion and diversity.

Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organization. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.

Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.