Enterprise Architect (Life Insurance) #3525454

Job Description

Job Description

Be Part Of A High-Performing Team:

This role joins a centralized Enterprise Architecture (EA) function that is being rebuilt and strengthened to create clearer technology direction, tighter standards, and stronger alignment across business units. The team is evolving away from “distributed architecture by dotted line” into a more structured, high-impact model where Enterprise Architects partner closely with divisional leaders and embedded architects. This is not an ivory-tower environment. The expectation is practical engagement, strong coaching, and real influence across portfolio decisions, modernization priorities, and enterprise consistency.

What’s In Store For You:

This is a high-visibility leadership role with enterprise-wide reach across cloud, infrastructure, application, and development platforms, and modernization strategy. The EA team is expected to grow, creating a meaningful runway for impact and leadership progression. Hybrid flexibility may be available depending on location and business needs, with a strong preference for candidates who can build in-person relationships and operate onsite regularly.

How You Will Make An Impact:

• Serve as a top-layer Enterprise Architect within a centralized EA team, paired closely with key business and technology stakeholders to drive enterprise direction.
• Strengthen core EA operating mechanisms, including architecture review practices, standards, education, communication, and decision governance that enables execution rather than slows it down.
• Lead modernization strategy across legacy ecosystems, focusing on the next leap forward beyond incremental upgrades.
• Drive cloud strategy and adoption patterns, including migration enablement, landing zone and shared services direction, and optimization across AWS and Azure.
• Guide infrastructure transformatio,n including data center evolution (dedicated → shared → COLO), hybrid connectivity, resiliency, and disaster recovery strategy.
• Shape application and development platform direction, improving developer enablement through reusable patterns, SDLC guardrails, and platform consistency.
• Establish and mature Cloud Center of Excellence-style enablement: playbooks, reference architectures, coaching, training, and adoption support that teams actually use.
• Build portfolio transparency and insight, including system usage by business process, duplication, sprawl, and total cost of ownership.
• Identify architectural hotspots and translate them into actionable roadmaps, standards, and stakeholder-ready recommendations.
• Coach and mentor architects across levels (principal, solution, application, data, infrastructure, security), raising maturity across people and process.
• Act as the bridge between business strategy and technical execution, navigating strong viewpoints and driving alignment with confident communication.

Do you have the expertise to lead enterprise architecture across cloud and platforms?

• 12+ years of progressive architecture experience with enterprise-wide scope (Enterprise Architecture strongly preferred).
• Proven leadership driving modernization across cloud and/or infrastructure platforms in complex environments.
• Strong experience with cloud migration strategy and operating models; multi-cloud exposure preferred, ideally AWS and Azure.
• Demonstrated ability to build or govern platform standards and enablement (cloud foundations, shared services, developer platform, or comparable CCoE-style model).
• Strong understanding of infrastructure strategy: hybrid patterns, network and identity considerations, observability, resiliency/DR, and cost-aware design.
• Familiarity shaping application and development platform strategy: CI/CD, SDLC guardrails, environment and release patterns, and developer enablement.
• Hands-on enterprise architecture approach through portfolio analysis, documentation, stakeholder engagement, and coaching (coding not required).
• Strong executive presence and communication skills, including presenting to senior leadership and influencing decisions across strong-opinion stakeholders.
• Comfort working with portfolio management tools and processes (ServiceNow exposure is a plus).
• Experience with architecture frameworks and structured practices (TOGAF or equivalent preferred).