VP, Enterprise Architecture

Brown & Brown Insurance • Plano, TX

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About The Position

Brown & Brown is seeking a VP, Enterprise Architecture to build and lead its enterprise architecture practice. This is a founding leadership role focused on establishing the practice, building its team, defining the enterprise target state, and setting how architecture works with delivery.

The VP leads enterprise architects across domains, along with business architecture and architecture governance. The role is accountable for the enterprise target state, standards framework, and a consistent architecture process, and establishes matrixed relationships with architects embedded in delivery.

The VP serves as a trusted advisor to senior technology and business leaders, translating architecture decisions into business consequences such as risk, cost, speed, and optionality. The role also partners with the Chief Data Office, Transformation Office & AI, and Emerging Technology to clarify ownership and avoid duplication.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
• 12+ years of progressive technology experience.
• 5+ years leading architects or architecture teams, including hiring and developing senior technologists.
• Demonstrated experience establishing or substantially rebuilding an enterprise architecture practice.
• Credible breadth across technology domains.
• Demonstrated experience defining enterprise target-state architecture and translating it into funded, sequenced roadmaps.
• Track record of architecture functions partnering with delivery rather than operating as a review gate.

Nice To Haves

• Insurance, brokerage, or financial services experience.
• Experience integrating acquired organizations onto enterprise platforms.

Responsibilities

• Recruit, hire, and develop the architecture team across domain, business, and governance roles.
• Define the architecture operating model, including cadence, forums, decision rights, and how architecture engages with delivery.
• Establish the practice’s credibility with delivery and business leadership.
• Make the case for architecture investment and sequence hiring against the highest-value gaps.
• Own enterprise target-state architecture across domains and the transition states connecting current reality to the target state.
• Own the standards framework and ensure it is applied consistently.
• Ensure domain roadmaps support a coherent enterprise direction.
• Drive unified architecture across business segments while allowing standards to flex where operating models genuinely differ.
• Own the architecture process from target state through design, clarifying the lead role at each stage across enterprise, domain, platform, and solution architects.
• Reconcile unconstrained and constrained roadmaps with delivery, the PMO, and Finance, making trade-offs visible.
• Set the matrixed relationship with platform and solution architects embedded in delivery.
• Lead domain enterprise architects as peers, setting enterprise direction while each remains accountable for their domain.
• Arbitrate cross-domain trade-offs and boundary disputes.
• Ensure the architecture team partners with delivery rather than operating as a detached function.
• Build career paths and bench strength across the architecture discipline.
• Own the enterprise position on technical debt and application rationalization, supported by architecture governance.
• Keep governance lightweight enough for delivery teams to follow.
• Be accountable for measurable reduction in technical debt and duplication that constrain the business.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to the CITO, the SVP, and business segment leadership.
• Translate architecture into business consequences, including risk, cost, speed, and optionality.
• Partner with the Chief Data Office, Transformation Office & AI, and Emerging Technology to clarify ownership and prevent duplication.
• Represent architecture in executive technology forums and investment reviews.

Benefits

• Medical/Rx, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability insurance.
• Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), 401(k), student loan assistance, and tuition reimbursement.
• Free mental health and enhanced advocacy services.
• Paid time off and holidays.
• Preferred partner discounts.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive