Insurance Tech Transformation Architect

EY; City of Rochester (NY); Remote; USD 139,000 - 255,000; Full time

Job summary

EY is seeking a Manager to join our Business Transformation & Growth practice to lead architecture strategy and solution design for large-scale insurance transformations. You will guide target-state architectures, evaluate platforms, and establish scalable integration patterns while leveraging AI capabilities to drive measurable business value.

You will mentor multidisciplinary teams, supervise governance, and partner with executives to translate business priorities into actionable roadmaps

Qualifications

• 8+ years of consulting, technology, or architecture experience.
• 5+ years of experience within Life Insurance, Annuities, or Group Benefits
• Experience as Solution Architect, Enterprise Architect, Technical Architect, or Lead Architect on large transformation programs
• Experience designing enterprise integration architectures utilizing APIs, middleware, event-driven solutions, and modern integration patterns
• Knowledge of cloud architecture principles and platforms such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud
• Experience leading architecture governance, design reviews, and technical decision-making forums
• Strong executive communication, presentation, stakeholder management, and consulting skills
• Experience developing architecture deliverables, technology roadmaps, and transformation strategies

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture strategy, target-state design, and modernization roadmaps for large-scale insurance transformation programs.
• Advise client executives on technology investments, platform strategies, and transformation decisions.
• Define scalable, secure, and future-ready business, application, data, integration, and technology architectures.
• Drive adoption of AI-enabled solutions to improve business outcomes, operational efficiency, and customer experience.
• Lead end-to-end solution architecture across insurance core platforms, cloud technologies, integrations, data, analytics, and enterprise applications.
• Define enterprise AI architecture strategies leveraging Generative AI, machine learning, intelligent automation, and predictive analytics.
• Establish architecture patterns, standards, and integration frameworks for APIs, cloud-native solutions, AI services, and intelligent agents.
• Provide oversight for data architecture, migration, reporting, analytics, and master data management initiatives
• Lead architecture governance, review boards, and decision-making processes to ensure alignment with enterprise standards and business objectives
• Partner with delivery, engineering, product, and operations teams to address technical challenges and mitigate architectural risks
• Promote the use of AI to accelerate solution delivery, improve quality, and enhance engineering productivity
• Build trusted relationships with client executives, architects, business leaders, and program sponsors
• Lead architecture workshops, strategy sessions, solution reviews, and executive presentations
• Translate business priorities into actionable technology roadmaps and transformation strategies
• Mentor and develop architecture professionals across engagements
• Contribute to practice growth through thought leadership, solution assets, methodologies, and business development
• Support recruitment, coaching, and career development while staying current on emerging insurance, cloud, and AI technologies

Skills

Architecture leadership

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Solution architecture

AI-enabled transformations

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business

Advanced degree (preferred)

Tools

FAST (Verisk)

FINEOS AdminSuite

ALIP

OIPA

DXC wmA/CyberLife LifePro

Job description

EY is seeking a Manager to join our Business Transformation & Growth practice to lead architecture strategy and solution design for large-scale insurance transformations. You will guide target-state architectures, evaluate platforms, and establish scalable integration patterns while leveraging AI capabilities to drive measurable business value.

You will mentor multidisciplinary teams, supervise governance, and partner with executives to translate business priorities into actionable roadmaps