Senior Solutions Architect

Travelers; Hartford (CT); On-site; USD 139,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Travelers is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to design, document, and guide the technical direction of software systems supporting business transformation. You will work with engineering teams to define AI-native, cloud-native, and large-scale architectural patterns, evaluate design trade-offs, and present multiple options with clear pros and cons.

The role involves building the platform from the ground up, shaping its architectural foundation, and providing hands-on architectural guidance

Qualifications

• Architectural design and modernization for AI-enabled platforms.
• Experience documenting ADRs and architectural decisions.
• Familiarity with cloud-native patterns and AI service integration.

Responsibilities

• Translate technology strategy into actionable architecture roadmaps.
• Identify opportunities/risks and present options to engineering leadership.
• Design and drive AI-first architectural approach across platforms.
• Document solution architectures: conceptual, logical, and service views.
• Write Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) justifying key decisions.
• Evaluate architectural trade-offs and select appropriate patterns.
• Prototype and provide hands-on architectural guidance to engineers.

Skills

AI-first architecture

Cloud-native architecture

ADR writing

API design

LangChain ecosystem

Education

Bachelor's in technology

Tools

LangChain ecosystem

AWS Bedrock AgentCore

Azure AI Foundry

Azure AI Agent Service

Job description

Who Are We?

Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That's the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 170 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.

Job Category

Technology

Compensation Overview

The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.

$139,400.00 - $230,000.00

Target Openings

1

What Is the Opportunity?

Travelers is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to join our Enterprise Technology Solutions organization. This is a senior-level architecture role focused on designing, documenting, and guiding the technical direction of software systems that support business transformation. You will work directly alongside engineering teams to shape how solutions are architected - defining AI-native, cloud-native and large-scale architectural patterns, evaluating design trade-offs, writing Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), and presenting multiple solution options with clear pros and cons. You'll be building this platform from the ground up, giving you the rare opportunity to shape its architectural foundation. This role is ideal for experienced architects who want to bring their expertise to a larger, more complex enterprise environment.

What Will You Do?

Scope

Responsible for architecture within one or more segments or domains, supporting a platform modernization effort for a single business unit.

Technical Execution

• Translate technology strategy and business direction into actionable architecture roadmaps, ensuring architectural decisions align with organizational priorities and investment goals.
• Identify architectural opportunities and risks that have strategic implications, and proactively surface them to engineering leadership with clear options and recommendations.
• Design and drive an AI-first architectural approach across the platform, proactively identifying opportunities for AI and agentic architecture in solution design.
• Design and document solution-level architectures for new and evolving systems, including conceptual, logical, and solution architecture views, service decomposition, API design, data flow, and integration patterns.
• Author Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) that capture context, options considered, trade-offs, and rationale for key technical decisions including decisions about AI service integration.
• Evaluate architectural trade-offs across patterns (e.g., event-driven, request/response, CQRS) and recommend the right approach for a given problem domain.
• Apply Hands-on experience with agentic frameworks and tooling across the LangChain ecosystem, cloud-native agent platforms (AWS Bedrock AgentCore, Azure AI Foundry / Azure AI Agent Service), or equivalent.
• Familiarity with architecting for AI-specific concerns such as latency tolerance, token cost management, output non-determinism, and graceful degradation when AI services are unavailable or underperforming.
• Provide architectural direction on technical patterns and must be comfortable with hands-on prototyping and technology proof of concepts using AI assisted coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code etc.)
• Present multiple architectural design options to engineering teams and stakeholders, clearly articulating the pros, cons, risks, and trade-offs of each approach.
• Provide hands-on architectural guidance to engineering teams, including reviewing designs, participating in technical discussions, and unblocking implementation challenges.
• Perform other duties as assigned

Strategic Accountability

Develop clear materials (architecture overviews, decision summaries, roadmap updates) that enable leadership to make informed technology decisions. Present architecture reviews, technology assessments, and modernization progress to VP-level leadership, communicating technical depth in business-relevant terms.

Translate AI capabilities and limitations into business-relevant terms for non-technical stakeholders, helping leadership make informed decisions about AI adoption and investment.

Influence architectural direction across teams through well-reasoned recommendations, building consensus. Build relationships across teams and encourage buy-in for architectural standards and modernization initiatives.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

Technical Expertise & Education

Bachelor's in technol