Senior Architect (Engineering Enablement)

Travelers • Hartford, AR

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About The Position

Travelers is seeking a Senior Architect to join our organization as we grow and transform our Enterprise Technology Solutions organization. As a Senior Architect for DevSecOps Platform Transformation within the Enterprise Technology Solutions Architecture organization, you will serve as the primary technical advocate for our internal engineering customers as engineering teams increasingly build and deploy AI-powered solutions. You will build trust-based relationships across all lines of business, translate engineering needs into platform strategy, and influence enterprise-wide technical direction. Impact comes through advocacy, architecture, influence, and engineering teams implementing what you champion.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, related STEM field, or its equivalent in education and/or work experience.
• 6 additional years of architecture/software engineering experience.
• Bachelor’s in technology related field or equivalent, with 8 years of architecture experience.
• Currently active in DevSecOps platform architecture with deep hands-on experience
• Expert knowledge of CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI)
• Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, AWS CDK)
• Deep understanding of artifact management, secrets management, supply chain security
• Current AWS cloud architecture certification or equivalent depth.
• Software engineering background with ability to evaluate approaches and guide implementation
• Understanding of agentic solution architectures and AI-assisted engineering workflows
• Strong architecture and recent hands-on engineering experience with modern technologies.
• Successfully architected large scale technology initiatives.
• Advanced leadership skills with the ability to take action even when there is no clear owner, inspire and motivate others, and be effective at influencing team members.
• Extensive experience working an agile operational model.
• Experience supporting transformational change.
• Able to adjust plans, priorities and strategies in response to changing circumstances.
• Experience in identifying and analyzing current/future problems and opportunities, evaluating information to understand root causes, and exploring alternative solutions for effective decision-making.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively with teammates to achieve mutually responsible results.
• Extensive experience exercising sound judgment, making decisions and committing to a position.
• Strong and effective verbal, written and listening communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Insurance technology experience preferred.
• Understanding of value creation and business capability models.
• Balance customer advocacy with enterprise governance (audit, legal, cyber, infrastructure)

Responsibilities

• Build trust-based relationships with engineering leaders and practitioners across all lines of business.
• Responsible for architecture within one or more segments or domains for a single business unit.
• Advocate for engineering customers while balancing enterprise compliance standards.
• Technical Execution: Help define and lead technology proof of concepts to ensure feasibility of architecture solutions.
• Participate in driving continuous technology transformation to minimize technical debt.
• Conduct hands-on prototyping and technology proof of concepts.
• Partner with leadership to ensure proper alignment with technology direction and execution of proof of technologies.
• Strategic Accountability: Define target state architecture and roadmaps.
• Proactively identify opportunities from emerging technology trends to minimized technical debt.
• Support technology modernization initiatives.
• Deliver comprehensive communications about architectural direction.
• Cultivate strong relationships and secure buy-in.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Health Insurance: Employees and their eligible family members – including spouses, domestic partners, and children – are eligible for coverage from the first day of employment.
• Retirement: Travelers matches your 401(k) contributions dollar-for-dollar up to your first 5% of eligible pay, subject to an annual maximum. If you have student loan debt, you can enroll in the Paying it Forward Savings Program. When you make a payment toward your student loan, Travelers will make an annual contribution into your 401(k) account. You are also eligible for a Pension Plan that is 100% funded by Travelers.
• Paid Time Off: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 20 days Paid Time Off annually, plus nine paid company Holidays.
• Wellness Program: The Travelers wellness program is comprised of tools, discounts and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals and caregiving needs. In addition, our mental health program provides access to free professional counseling services, health coaching and other resources to 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 program that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees