Head of Enterprise Architecture, AVP – Europe in London

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.

What Is the Opportunity? As an AVP of Architecture, 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 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. You will work within a community of architecture leaders, charged with establishing and evolving a unified architecture vision.

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 pro rata for part-time employees). This policy may be changed at the Company’s discretion.

What Will You Do?

• Organizational responsibility for a major segment of Technology Architecture
• Works with the Senior leadership within Technology and Business to develop architecture priorities and direction to enable business imperatives
• Displays strong thought leadership in pursuit of modern architecture principles 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
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Bachelor’s in technology related field or equivalent with relevant technology Architecture experience.
• Provided mentorship to architecture leaders.
• Organizational and transformational Leadership Experience in an agile operating model.
• Expert level Software Engineering awareness.
• Led development of strategic technology direction and architecture vision for an organization.
• Developed technology target state, roadmaps that aligned to Short- and Long-term business goals.
• Proven track record of Influencing C-level leadership.
• Insurance technology experience.
• Strong grasp of value creation and business capability models.
• Innovation and Continuous Improvement.
• Demonstrated ability to drive decisions.
• Must be passionate about technology transformations.
• Has hands on experience.
• Executed technology modernization initiatives including migration to cloud native and API Strategy.
• Current experience with AWS, APIs, Accelerators, DevSecOps.
• Cloud Architecture Certification (AWS, GCP, or Azure) or strong architecture experience on Cloud.
• Good understanding of security.
• Experienced with large scale technology platforms.

What is a Must Have?

• Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent in work experience.
• Relevant experience in enterprise, application, and/or information architecture within a line of business or enterprise area.
• Previous management experience.

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. Additionally, if you decide to contribute to the plan, you will receive an increased company contribution.
• Holiday Entitlement: Start your career at Travelers with a 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: The Travelers wellness programme is comprised of tools, discounts and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals and caregiving needs. In addition, our mental health programme provides access to free professional counseling services and other resources that support your daily life needs.
• 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 programme that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice.

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 are a candidate and 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.