Senior Enterprise Architect — Life & Annuity Platforms

Alliance of Professionals & Consultants, Inc. (APC); United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Alliance of Professionals & Consultants, Inc. (APC) seeks an experienced Enterprise Architect to bridge business strategy and technology across core insurance platforms. You will maintain capability maps, refine target architectures, and guide both business units and delivery teams toward scalable, compliant solutions.

Strong communication with executives is essential. The role combines business and technical leadership, with autonomy to shape the enterprise TSA and drive architecture decisions

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive experience in enterprise, business, or solution architecture.
• Extensive Life & Annuity insurance technology on the carrier side.
• Hands-on experience with policy administration systems (LifePro experience a strong plus).
• Proven experience building business capability maps and process architecture.
• Solid grounding in cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and data architecture concepts.
• Experience operating in or building toward a target operating model with autonomy.
• Strong stakeholder management; translate between business and technical language.
• Familiarity with regulatory considerations relevant to a national L&A carrier.
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field; enterprise architecture certification (e.g., TOGAF) a plus.

Responsibilities

• Maintain, extend, and mature existing business capability maps across underwriting, policy administration, claims, distribution, and member services.
• Validate and refine the target-state architecture; close gaps as new initiatives surface them.
• Document and rationalize core business processes; identify redundancy, gaps, and opportunities for simplification ahead of technology investment.
• Translate business strategy and roadmaps into architecture for Technology Services planning.
• Support TSA by clarifying capability ownership and boundaries across Technology Services, Digital, Data, Security, and business.
• Act as trusted advisor to business unit leaders on alignment with target capability roadmap.
• Own and evolve enterprise architecture standards and reference architectures across core platforms.
• Evaluate proposed solutions for architectural fit, scalability, and alignment to target-state architecture.
• Serve as a voting member of SARB, reviewing significant technology decisions.
• Partner with Data on data architecture decisions intersecting with capabilities.
• Provide architectural guidance to delivery partners to ensure designs conform to standards.
• Collaborate with Digital throughout software development to ensure well-designed, well-integrated systems.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Business Architecture

Solution Architecture

Stakeholder Management

Cloud Platforms

Regulatory Knowledge

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

TOGAF certification

Tools

LifePro

Snowflake

SmartComm

AWS

OpenText

CRM/Workflow platforms

Job description

Alliance of Professionals & Consultants, Inc. (APC) seeks an experienced Enterprise Architect to bridge business strategy and technology across core insurance platforms. You will maintain capability maps, refine target architectures, and guide both business units and delivery teams toward scalable, compliant solutions.

Strong communication with executives is essential. The role combines business and technical leadership, with autonomy to shape the enterprise TSA and drive architecture decisions