Senior Enterprise Architect

Marsh McLennan•Conyers, GA

4d•$115,800 - $202,700

About The Position

As a Senior Enterprise Architect on Marsh McLennan Agency’s Enterprise Architecture team, you will help business and IT leaders make investment decisions that balance current operational demands, disruptions, and opportunities with the organization’s longer-term strategic vision. You will provide technology guidance, roadmaps, principles, standards, and best practices within assigned capability domains. The role includes becoming a subject matter expert for one or more business capability domains and understanding upstream and downstream dependencies across servicing, transaction, and operational workflows. You will guide IT architecture in support of business strategy, review proposals and initiatives, develop implementation proposals, partner with business stakeholders to define solution requirements, and help manage application components, system interfaces, and deployment of new systems and services. You will also contribute to technology standards and best practices, monitor industry trends, and advise and mentor colleagues. During the first 3–12 months, you will evaluate existing projects, assess business capabilities, define the target landscape, and create roadmaps to deliver required functionality. You will also participate in building out the business unit’s Enterprise Architecture group, including its architecture review standards, principles, and processes. The role offers hybrid or remote work.

Requirements

5–7 years of Enterprise Architecture experience.
Sound experience building enterprise technical solutions and strategies.
Leadership experience 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.
Direct accountability for architecting capabilities across complex, high-volume operational platforms and business processes core to client, policy, service, and financial lifecycles.

Nice To Haves

Ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences and successfully communicate a vision to IT and business stakeholders.
Ability to align business objectives with IT strategy by translating complex insurance operating model requirements into actionable architectural roadmaps that support transformation, operational excellence, and scalable platform modernization.
Understanding of Insurance Broking, Risk Management, or Employee Benefits processes and solutions.
Experience in large-scale application rationalization programs.
TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Certification.

Responsibilities

Enable business and IT leaders to make investment decisions that balance current operational needs with the organization’s longer-term strategic vision.
Provide technology guidance, roadmaps, principles, standards, and best practices within assigned capability domains.
Evaluate existing projects, assess required business capabilities, define the target landscape, and create roadmaps.
Participate in building the business unit Enterprise Architecture group, including architecture review standards, principles, and core processes.
Serve as a subject matter expert for one or more business capability domains and understand complex upstream and downstream process dependencies.
Provide direction and guidance for IT architecture within assigned domains in support of corporate business strategy.
Review proposals and initiatives and provide 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, particularly in complex servicing environments.
Manage development of supporting application components, system interfaces and designs, and deployment of new systems and services.
Contribute to and communicate standards and best practices for development, quality assurance, security, and service onboarding.
Monitor industry trends, frameworks, emerging technologies, and best practices, and communicate relevant opportunities to leadership and business unit peers.
Advise and mentor technology colleagues and team members on technology skills, principles, processes, and technologies.