Enterprise Solution & Business Architect

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POSITION OVERVIEW

The Enterprise Solution & Business Architect will work across Life and P&C to connect business strategy, operating needs, and technology direction. The role will partner with Life and P&C business and IT leaders to understand the current environment, define future-state requirements, and translate those needs into actionable business and solution architecture.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Facilitate discovery sessions with Life and P&C business and IT stakeholders to capture business capabilities, processes, pain points, data needs, system dependencies, and technical constraints. 
• Document current-state business and technology architecture, including process flows, capability maps, application interactions, integrations, and key gaps
• Define future-state business and solution architecture aligned to strategic priorities, customer and agent needs, operational efficiency, scalability, security, and maintainability.
• Develop future-state concepts, architecture options, diagrams, roadmaps, and design recommendations that leaders can use to make investment and sequencing decisions.
• Translate business outcomes and requirements into clear solution direction for delivery teams, vendors, and technology partners.
• Evaluate solution alternatives and clearly communicate tradeoffs, dependencies, risks, assumptions, and impacts across Life, P&C, and shared enterprise capabilities.
• Partner with project managers, business analysts, product owners, engineering teams, vendors, security, data, and infrastructure teams to maintain alignment from discovery through delivery.
• Establish and maintain reusable architecture documentation, standards, decision records, and traceability between business needs and solution designs.
• Present recommendations to technical and nontechnical audiences and help build consensus around target-state decisions.
• Performs other duties as assigned

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

Required

• 10+ years of experience in the insurance industry, including work across Life and Property & Casualty (P&C). 
• Demonstrated experience in solution architecture and business architecture. 
• Experience partnering with business and IT stakeholders to document current state, define future-state requirements, and develop practical architecture designs. 
• Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, business, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience
• A degree is preferred but not required. Equivalent consideration may be given to candidates with at least 10 years of relevant insurance, solution architecture, business architecture, or enterprise transformation experience. 

Preferred or Specialized

• Experience with insurance policy, billing, claims, distribution, or customer platforms. 
• Experience supporting enterprise transformation, modernization, or capability roadmaps. 
   
• Familiarity with architecture frameworks, capability modeling, process modeling, and integration patterns. 
• Master's degree or relevant architecture/business analysis certification. 

CERTIFICATIONS & LICENSES

• Preferred, not required: TOGAF, Certified Business Architect (CBA),  AWS architecture certification, IASA. 

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES

Must have knowledge of:

• Solution architecture and business architecture 
• Life and P&C insurance domain knowledge 
• Current-state and future-state analysis 
• Requirements discovery and stakeholder facilitation 
• Technical documentation and architecture diagramming 
• Strategic thinking and roadmap development 
• Business capability, process, data, application, and integration analysis 
• Executive communication, influence, and decision support 
• Ability to work across business, IT, delivery teams, and vendors 
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills 

Good to have skill sets:   

• Enterprise architecture frameworks or methods such as TOGAF or similar 

 • Business architecture methods such as capability mapping, value streams, or operating-model design 
• Cloud, API, integration, data, security, and application modernization concepts 
• Experience with insurance platforms and vendor solution assessments 
• Familiarity with Agile, product, and project delivery models 
• Experience creating technology strategies, transition architectures, and multi-year roadmaps 

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship now or in the future.

  Pay Range: 

•    $108,000 – $140,000  per year 
  • This range is based on the expected level of experience and skills for this position. Final compensation will depend on individual

 Benefits: 

•  Health, Dental and Vision Insurance
•  Generous 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off (PTO) with Paid Holidays
• Flexible/Hybrid Work Schedule
• Paid Volunteer Program

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