Senior Architect, Europe

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 Summary: Join our innovative team of Architects at the forefront of a major transformation program within the insurance industry. As a Senior Architect, you will play a pivotal role in revolutionising our technology systems. Embrace the power of AI as we integrate cutting‑edge technology across all facets of our business and technology landscape. In this exciting role, you will support the execution of architectural and technological strategies that drive the development and implementation of initiatives rooted in Common Delivery, Services‑Based Architecture, and Agility. Your leadership will be instrumental in shaping our Technology and API strategies, leveraging increased automation through APIs and event‑driven architectures across our technology estate. You will provide visionary technical leadership for complex applications, guiding our team through the intricacies of modern architecture.

Travelers Europe currently offers flexibility to employees who wish to work on a hybrid basis in accordance with our Hybrid Work Arrangements Policy. This entails full‑time employees working three days a week in the office and two days at home (or prorated for part‑time employees). This policy may be changed at the Company’s discretion.

What Will You Do?

• Participate in or lead part of efforts in association with solutions, roadmaps, and architectural recommendations.
• Depending on the size of application or scope of project, facilitate and/or execute the governance process (i.e., blueprint and design reviews) for projects.
• Implement the strategy for stability and performance of solutions (including project‑level design, debugging, and performance analysis) at the application and technology domain levels.
• Provide input into portfolio or prioritization processes and how escalation for remediation of application stability and performance will be managed for scope.
• Prioritize autonomously.
• Contribute to and influence the adoption of new concepts, ideas, techniques, best practices, and technology assistance, including guidelines and models for supported technologies.
• Collaborate with other architects, development groups, and OAI‑Sys employees.
• Participate in enterprise engagements and initiatives such as Centers of Excellence and own associated deliverables.
• Participate in development and production support of application utilities and own associated deliverables.
• Participate in vendor and product‑management strategies to establish required infrastructures and frameworks and own associated deliverables.
• Own deliverables for product evaluations and Proof of Concepts.
• Execute day‑to‑day tasks of the architectural strategy.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Working knowledge of architecture technology directions.
• Working knowledge in enterprise, application, and information architecture.
• Working knowledge of product and/or project management and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• General knowledge of technical reference architectures in Java, .NET, SQL, and SOA.
• General knowledge of influencing people in a matrixed organization.
• Thorough knowledge of multiple technologies and architectures.
• General knowledge of Insurance industry experience.
• General knowledge of engaging with business stakeholders and turning requirements into IT solutions.
• General knowledge of providing architecture guidance to Development Teams.
• Extensive experience with J2EE, Web Application Development (User & B2B), Service‑Oriented Architecture & Web Services (SOAP, XML, REST), Application Frameworks (Spring, Struts, Hibernate, MVC, etc.), Middleware Technologies (WebSphere, JBoss, DataPower), Relational Database Design (DB2/400, MS SQL Server), Document, Imaging, and Web Content Management (FileNet), Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, and ETL, Transaction Design (OLTP, Batch), Component‑Based Design, Application Integration, and Performance Engineering.
• Demonstrates analytical and diagnostic skills when dealing with novel or undefined issues.
• Develops solutions using accepted processes or creates new approaches to leverage technology from abstract information.
• Optimizes use of available resources.
• Bases decisions on accurate understanding of the situation.
• Keeps apprised of industry trends and applies this knowledge to business solutions.
• Maintains partnerships across the organization and influences peers and management through an inclusive style.
• Manages cross‑functional objectives and priorities supporting assigned business areas.
• Works with latitude for decision making; reviews results periodically according to predefined objectives.
• Sets risk‑taking level and synthesizes information for all appropriate organizational levels.
• Supports all planning and budgeting/estimating done on a project level and is supportive of business strategic plans.

What Is a Must Have?

• Experience and knowledge in multiple technologies and architectures.

What Is in It for You?

• Private Medical Insurance: On commencement of employment, you are eligible for single cover provided by Travelers, with the option to add cover for your dependents, at your expense through payroll deduction.
• Retirement: Travelers will make a core contribution of a percentage of salary to your Pension Plan. If you decide to contribute, you will receive an increased company contribution.
• Holiday Entitlement: Minimum of 25 days holiday entitlement annually, plus the opportunity to purchase additional days to allow for up to a total of 35 holidays per year.
• Wellness Programme: Includes tools, discounts and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals and caregiving needs. The mental health programme provides access to free professional counselling services and other resources that support your daily life needs.
• Volunteer Encouragement: A Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards programme enables you to give back to the charity of your choice.
• Additional benefits and details are available on our benefits page.

Employment Practices: Travelers is an equal‑opportunity employer. We value the unique abilities and talents each individual brings to our organization and recognize that we benefit in numerous ways from our differences. If you have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email so we may assist you. Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting.