Enterprise Architect

Pacific Life • Newport Beach, CA

13h • Onsite

About The Position

Providing for loved ones, planning rewarding retirements, saving enough for whatever lies ahead – our policyholders count on us to be there when it matters most. It’s a big ask, but it’s one that we have the power to deliver when we work together. We collaborate and innovate – pushing one another to transform not just Pacific Life, but the entire industry for the better. Why? Because it’s the right thing to do. Pacific Life is more than a job, it’s a career with purpose. It’s a career where you have the support, balance, and resources to make a positive impact on the future – including your own. We’re actively seeking a talented Enterprise Architect to join our Enterprise Architecture team in Newport Beach, CA. This role is on-site. You’ll work at our state-of-the-art Newport Beach headquarters. As an Enterprise Architect you’ll move Pacific Life, and your career, forward by analyzing the role of product distribution in the insurance value chain, studying how Pacific Life can build disruptive and differentiating technology capabilities in support of the distribution business channel, advise and consult during the transformation ideation / planning / design phases, direct solution architecture design and development, and ensure adherence to architecture governance. You will fill a new role that sits on a team of 15+ architects (direct and matrixed) in the Consumer Markets Division (CMD). Your colleagues will include fellow enterprise and solutions architecture professionals. Pacific Life have made a deliberate investment in technology architecture to support strategic planning, technology optimization, and IT initiative execution. How you’ll help move us forward: External Environment: Analyze global trends in utilizing technology across the insurance industry and potential disruptive influences. Internal Environment: Study business motivational context and interconnection of business and technology capabilities. Consulting Support: Provide advisory and consulting services, serve on technology decisioning committees, serve as trusted expert in the relationship between business and technology, engage at the transformation ideation phase. Solution Development: Develop and iterate on architecture solution designs for key initiatives and special projects. Architecture Assurance: Ensure that Solution Architects elaborate on High Level Designs by developing Low Level Designs that adhere to architecture governance.

Requirements

• Broad but relatively narrow, financial services in general or insurance industry specific, deep in 3+ domains (Business, Applications, Data, Integration, Infrastructure, Security).
• Strong behavioral skills relevant to consensus building, communication, facilitation, negotiation, relationship building, working knowledge of business / operating / financial models and cost / benefit analysis, risk analysis / management, consulting, and navigating organizational politics.
• Diversified, multifaceted and extensive, stems from working with numerous technology solutions.
• 15+ years of progressive technology experience.
• 7.5+ years as an Architect.
• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, computed engineering, electrical engineering, system analysis or a related field of study, or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

• Formulate Strategy and Guide Execution: Proven track record of working with Business and leadership Stakeholders to develop Strategy and connect Strategy to Execution.
• Facilitate Innovation: Collect, analyze, review and refine; Innovations, Trends, Disruptions, Opportunities or Ideas; develop, track and manage; execution of Innovations, Trends, Disruptions, Opportunities or Ideas
• Artificial Intelligence: Pragmatic understanding of how to apply Machine Learning, Large Language Models, Agentic AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, and related technologies to real world technology and business opportunities

Responsibilities

• Analyze global trends in utilizing technology across the insurance industry and potential disruptive influences.
• Study business motivational context and interconnection of business and technology capabilities.
• Provide advisory and consulting services, serve on technology decisioning committees, serve as trusted expert in the relationship between business and technology, engage at the transformation ideation phase.
• Develop and iterate on architecture solution designs for key initiatives and special projects.
• Ensure that Solution Architects elaborate on High Level Designs by developing Low Level Designs that adhere to architecture governance.

Benefits

• Prioritization of your health and well-being including Medical, Dental, Vision, and Wellbeing Reimbursement Account that can be used on yourself or your eligible dependents
• Generous paid time off options including: Paid Time Off, Holiday Schedules, and Financial Planning Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave as well as an Adoption Assistance Program
• Competitive 401k savings plan with company match and an additional contribution regardless of participation

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees