Chief Architect - COG- permanent - Insurance
ScopeThe Chief Architect will lead technology architecture for one or more businesses or functional segments.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for directing a team of Software Solutions Architects and Platform Architects
- Ensure alignment between business and technology partners and leadership peers in the organization.
- Partner with Senior business and technology leaders to identify technology gaps; design and implement solutions that drive business growth and transformation.
- Establish technical target state and roadmap for critical domains and business areas, ensuring multi-year plan incorporates and aligns with the overall technology strategy.
- Drive comprehensive solution architecture patterns and practice integrating with systems and partners influencing designing APIs, documenting data exchange patterns, and compiling best practices.
- Contribute to the creation of global platforms and drive adoption across the Chubb Overseas regions.
- Optimize the application portfolio for local agility and global efficiency.
- Drive strategy and Roadmap curation.
- Work with the regional CIOs and executive leaders to develop and execute the technical strategy to drive the business growth objectives.
- Bridge engineering and architecture teams to drive commonality, standards, and best practices.
- Drive continuous technology transformations and improvement to minimize technical debt.
- Analyze industry trends to leverage technology advances.
- Communicate architectural direction and its alignment with enterprise strategy.
- Direct the architecture community to maintain engineering best practices and utilization of fit for purpose emerging technologies.
- Partner with Risk and Cyber Security leadership to ensure technology architecture complies with risk standards and industry and regulatory compliance.
Qualifications
- Experience transforming architecture function towards greater automation and engineering excellence.
- Excellent communication and proven ability to synthesize large amounts of data/information to present to senior leadership and other target audiences.
- Experience with financial services sector, insurance preferred.
- Experience working in an agile environment.
- Previous experience as a Chief Architect at a Fortune 500 company is preferred.