The Hartford - Charlotte, NC
posted about 2 months ago
The Hartford's Enterprise Data Services (EDS) is seeking a Director of Cloud Data Architecture responsible for modernizing and simplifying a portfolio of assets supporting Commercial Lines and Sales & Distribution portfolio. This role will have a Hybrid work arrangement, with the expectation of working in an office location (Hartford, CT and Charlotte, NC) 3 days a week (Tuesday through Thursday). As a leader, you'll be responsible for designing and delivering the Data Architecture strategy for Commercial Lines and Sales & Distribution. You'll collaborate directly with senior stakeholders across various functional areas to ensure alignment with business strategies and technology roadmaps. In this position, you will develop and maintain both current and target state data architectures, defining strategy and roadmaps to guide transformation efforts. You will create a roadmap for Data Transformation, addressing challenges related to legacy technology stacks, complex data pipelines, data freshness, delivery speed, and quality. This involves modernizing and simplifying existing data assets while creating architecture patterns for both Hybrid and Cloud Data ecosystems, including AWS Cloud, Snowflake, and On-Premises. You will analyze emerging business and technology trends, such as Gen AI, translating these trends into actionable capabilities within functional and technology domains. Additionally, you will design architecture patterns using near real-time or real-time data cache for integration with operational systems. Governance and best practices will be a key focus, as you define and enforce data architecture standards, procedures, metrics, and policies. You will be a thought leader, driving positive change and simplification while improving delivery speed, maturing data architecture processes, and establishing reference architectures. As part of the Enterprise Data Services Architecture Center of Excellence, you will lead initiatives for continuous improvement, ensuring alignment between business strategies and technology roadmaps. You will provide technical leadership, mentoring, and coaching to technical teams, collaborating with extended architecture, business, and IT support teams to develop functional and technical blueprints. Your role will also involve ensuring that automation and data strategy implementations are scalable, reusable, and integrated, enabling a high-performing team that focuses on business outcomes.