Senior Architect, Europe

Travelers Insurance Co. Ltd.; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance company is seeking a Senior Architect in London to drive the transformation of technology systems. The role involves providing visionary leadership for architectural strategies, emphasizing automation and API integration. Candidates should have extensive experience in various architectures and technologies, with a preference for those who understand the insurance industry. A hybrid work model is available, promoting flexibility and work-life balance.

Benefits

Private Medical Insurance

Qualifications

• Thorough knowledge of multiple technologies and architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural recommendations and roadmaps.

Skills

Architecture technology directions

Education

Experience in Insurance industry

Tools

Java

Job description

Overview

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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 160 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.

Target Openings: 1

What Is the Opportunity?

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 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 shape 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 modern architecture. If you’re ready to make a lasting impact, apply and join us on this journey!

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?

• Participates in or leads parts of efforts in association with solutions, roadmaps, and architectural recommendations.
• Facilitates and/or executes governance processes (e.g., blueprint and design reviews) for projects, depending on the size of the application or project scope.
• Implements the strategy for stability and performance of solutions (including project-level design, debugging and performance analysis) at the applications and technology domains level.
• Provides input into portfolio or prioritization processes and manages escalation for remediation of application stability and performance; can prioritize independently.
• Contributes to and influences adoption of new concepts, ideas, techniques, best practices, and technology assistance (guidelines and models for supported technologies).
• Collaborates with other architects, development groups, and OAI-Sys employees.
• May participate in enterprise engagements and initiatives like Centers of Excellence and owns deliverables associated with these efforts.
• May participate in development and production support of application utilities and owns deliverables associated with these efforts.
• May participate in vendor and product management strategies to establish required infrastructures and frameworks and owns deliverables associated with these efforts.
• Owns deliverables associated with product evaluations and proofs of concept.
• Participates in the day-to-day execution of the architectural strategy.
• Performs 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.
• Experience influencing people in a matrixed organization.
• Thorough knowledge of experiences across multiple technologies and architectures.
• Knowledge of Insurance industry experience; London Markets desirable.
• Experience engaging with business stakeholders and turning requirements into IT solutions.
• Experience providing architecture guidance to development teams.
• Thorough knowledge across multiple technologies and architectures including:
• J2EE; Web Application Development (User & B2B); Service-Oriented Architecture & Web Services (SOAP, XML, REST); Application Frameworks (Spring, Struts, Hibernate, MVC); 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; Performance Engineering.
• Analytical and diagnostic skills for novel issues; ability to develop solutions by applying accepted processes or creating new approaches; optimizes resources; keeps apprised of industry trends and applies knowledge to business solutions.
• Maintains partnerships across the organization and can influence peers and management through an inclusive style.
• Ability to manage cross-functional objectives and priorities; results reviewed against objectives; supports planning and budgeting at a project level; experience with SaaS platforms and cloud-native solutions; API-first design approach; knowledge of event-driven architectures and asynchronous communication models for service integration.

What is a Must Have?

• Experience and knowledge in multiple technologies and architectures.

What Is in It for You?

• Private Medical Insurance: single cover with option to add dependent coverage at the employee’s expense.
• Retirement: core pension contribution with potential for increased company contribution with employee participation.
• Holiday Entitlement: minimum 25 days, with opportunity to purchase up to 35 days per year.
• Wellness Programme: tools, discounts, and resources, including free professional counseling services and other resources for mental health support.
• Volunteer Encouragement: Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards programs to support charitable giving.

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 questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please email us 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. For more information about our benefits, please visit http://careers.travelers.com/life-at-travelers/benefits/.

Seniority level: Not Applicable

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Information Technology

Industries: Insurance

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