Job Description

Who Are We?
Solid reputation, passionate people and endless opportunities. That’s Travelers. Our superior financial strength and consistent record of strong operating returns mean security for our customers – and opportunities for our employees. You will find Travelers to be full of energy and a workplace in which you truly can make a difference.


















Job Category Technology


















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What Is the Opportunity? As a Senior Director, Architecture for Canada Personal Insurance and Shared Services Value Streams, you will help lead the effort to create the technology target state for the Canada Unit of a global, Dow 30 company.
As a direct report to the Canada Chief Architect, you will interface directly with senior technology leaders to transform our current business and technology capabilities and pave the way for best-in-class solutions. You will be a dedicated partner to senior Technology and Business leaders as you define a target state, roadmaps and identify new and emerging technologies that will transform and optimize the business. As an organizational leader, you will humbly serve and inspire a team of high-performing Architects who you will coach, mentor, and empower.
As a successful candidate, you are a visionary executive with a track record of building high-quality enterprise solutions and teams. You are results-driven and bring strong Architecture and engineering skills and a deep understanding of modern technologies including Cloud-native, APIs, AI, and ML to enable you to build the technical strategy and roadmap for Personal Insurance and Shared Services Value Streams. You will work to prioritize architect resource assignments within the Value Streams to ensure the highest value architect work is completed in a timely manner and the architect resources have opportunities to grow. You will coordinate Value Stream roadmaps with enterprise imperatives to drive modernization goals. You are a person of high integrity, who believes in challenging the status quo when needed, while always first seeking to understand.
You will work within a community of architecture leaders, charged with establishing and evolving a unified architecture vision.
Primary Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Organizational responsibility for Technology Architecture in support of multiple Canada business units
• Works with the Senior leadership within Technology and Business to develop architecture priorities and direction to enable business imperatives
• Manages architect resource assignments based on priority of work within the Personal Insurance and Shared Services Value Streams
• Responsible for the target state architecture for Personal Insurance and Shared Services Value Streams to deliver Common as Possible, Unique as Necessary solutions
• Creates and maintains the Value Streams’ technical roadmaps and maintains the architectural backlogs to drive implementation of same
• Displays strong thought leadership in pursuit of modern architecture principals and technology modernization
• Drives continuous technology transformation to minimize technical debt
• Create a partnership with Senior Software Engineering leadership
• Looks for opportunities to capitalize on technology advances through analysis of key industry and technology trends to assess potential impact on the enterprise
• Defines and leads technology proof of concepts to ensure feasibility of new technology architecture solutions
• Defines target state technology architecture and roadmaps
• Ensures alignment of IT initiatives with the target state
• Builds strong partnership with engineering to ensure proper alignment of skills with technology direction
• Prepares and delivers comprehensive communications to convey architectural direction and how it aligns with enterprise strategy
• Optimizes talent strategy to ensure proper mix of resources and attracts and recruits best talent
• Continuously improve efficiency and effectiveness of the architecture

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Bachelor’s in technology related field or equivalent with 7+ years of technology Architecture experience
• Provided mentorship to architecture team
• Organizational and transformational Leadership Experience in an agile operating model
• Help define strategic technology direction and architecture vision for an organization
• Expert level Software Engineering experience
• Develop technology target state, roadmaps that aligned to Short- and Long-term business goals
• Proven track record of Influencing senior leadership
• Insurance technology experience
• Strong grasp of value creation and business capability models
• Innovation and Continuous Improvement

What is a Must Have?

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field.
• 6 years’ experience in enterprise, application, technology and/or information architecture required.
• 3 years’ experience managing others and/or technical teams required.

What Is in It for You?

• Health Insurance: Employees and their eligible family members – including spouses, partners, and children – are eligible for coverage from the first day of employment.
• Retirement: Travelers provides a core contribution of 3% of your total eligible earnings to your Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (“DPSP”). Travelers also matches your savings plan contribution dollar-for-dollar up to 5% of base pay.
• Paid Time Off: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 20 days Paid Time Off (“PTO”) annually, plus the opportunity to purchase additional days to allow for up to a total of 36 PTO days per year. You will also receive twelve paid company Holidays.
• Wellness Program: The Travelers wellness program is comprised of tools and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals. In addition, our Life Balance program provides access to professional counseling services and other resources to support your daily life needs. Through Life Balance, you’re eligible for free counseling sessions with a licensed therapist.
• Volunteer Encouragement: We have a deep commitment to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards program that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Travelers is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing accommodation to persons with disabilities. If you require accommodation during the recruitment or interview process we will work with you to accommodate your needs.
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