Enterprise Architect in Birmingham

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Marsh McLennan Agency (MMA) provides business insurance, employee health & benefits, retirement, and private client insurance solutions to organizations and individuals seeking limitless possibilities. With offices across North America, we combine the personalized service model of a local consultant with the global resources of the world’s leading professional services firm, Marsh (NYSE: MRSH).

As an Enterprise Architect on the MMA Enterprise Architecture team, you will enable business and IT leaders to make investment decisions that balance and prioritize current operational demands, disruptions, and opportunities with the longer-term strategic vision of the organization. You will provide technology guidance, road maps, principles, standards, and best practices within a set of Capability Domains.

What you need to have:

• 5-7 years of Enterprise Architecture experience
• Sound experience of building out enterprise technical solutions and strategies
• Leadership experience in managing multiple, large, cross-functional teams or projects, and influencing senior level management and key stakeholders.
• Proven experience as a domain architect or enterprise architect supporting a large insurance or brokerage organization, with direct accountability for architecting capabilities across complex, high-volume operational platforms and business processes that are core to the client, policy, service, and financial lifecycle.

What makes you stand out:

• Proven ability to translate into non-tech and sell a vision successfully to both IT and Business stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to align business objectives with IT strategy by translating complex insurance operating model requirements into clear, actionable architectural roadmaps that drive business transformation, operational excellence, and scalable platform modernization.
• An understanding of Insurance Broking, Risk Management or Employee Benefits processes and solutions
• Experience in large scale application rationalization programs.

What can you expect:

• Within your first 3-12 months you will evaluate existing projects, assess the required business capabilities, drive target landscape, and create roadmaps that deliver the necessary functionality to drive the business
• Participate in the design and buildout of MMA’s business unit Enterprise Architecture group, including architecture review standards, key principles and core processes.

We will count on you to:

• Become our Subject Matter Expert for one or more business capability domains, with the ability to quickly understand complex upstream and downstream process dependencies across core servicing, transaction, and operational workflows.
• Provide overall direction, guidance, and definition of IT architecture within your domain(s) to effectively support the corporate business strategy.
• Provide critical review and feedback on proposals and initiatives; providing technical expertise for projects on a consulting and troubleshooting basis.
• Develop implementation proposals for new applications, capabilities, and services.
• Partner with project sponsors and business users to understand solution requirements and needs, especially within complex servicing environments that depend on tightly integrated workflows, high data fidelity, and operational resilience.
• Manage the development of supporting application components, interface/design of systems as well as the deployment of new systems/services.
• Ensure quality of technology deliverables by contributing to and communication of standards and best practices for development, quality assurance, security, and service on-boarding.
• Keep current with industry trends (including solution architecture frameworks and patterns, emerging technologies, best practices); communicate opportunities to benefit from new trends and technologies to leadership and business unit peers and leaders.
• Advise and mentor technology colleagues and team members on technology skills, principles and processes/technologies to leadership and business unit peers and leaders.

We value and respect the impact our colleagues make every day both inside and outside of work. Our culture promotes colleague well-being through robust benefits programs and resources, professional and personal development opportunities, and fulfillment through meaningful work.

Some benefits included in this role are:

• Generous time off, including personal and volunteering
• Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities
• Charitable contribution match programs
• Stock purchase opportunities