Senior Architect - Operational Data Architecture & AI/ML - Personal Insurance

$135,700 - $223,900/Yr

Travelers - Hartford, CT

Full-time - Senior

Hartford, CT

Insurance Carriers and Related Activities

About the position

As a Senior Architect in Generative AI supporting Personal Insurance at Travelers, you will be part of a strategic team focused on transforming business and technology capabilities. This role involves collaborating with technology and business leaders to innovate solutions that enhance the company's operations. You will leverage your expertise in data architectures, machine learning, and cloud-native technologies to design and implement AI/ML models that meet business requirements and performance standards.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Personal Insurance and technology leadership to develop architecture priorities and direction to enable business imperatives.
• Advocate for modern architecture principles and technology modernization.
• Drive continuous technology transformation to reduce technical debt.
• Partner with engineering to align skills with technology direction and execute proof of technologies.
• Analyze industry and technology trends to leverage advancements.
• Lead and define technology proof of concepts to validate architecture solutions.
• Engage in hands-on prototyping of new technology solutions.
• Define target state technology architecture and roadmaps.
• Align IT initiatives with the target state architecture.
• Communicate architectural direction and its alignment with enterprise strategy.
• Optimize talent strategy to ensure appropriate balance of resources.
• Continuously improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the architecture.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a technology-related field or equivalent.
• 6+ years of application architecture experience.
• 4+ years of experience in machine learning, deep learning, or AI architecture.
• Hands-on experience in data architecture within the last 3 years.
• Experience modernizing data technology and information architecture on cloud.
• Experience with AWS components including Lambda, Kinesis/Firehose, Airflow, Glue, Spark, EC2, SageMaker, S3, NoSQL database, and API Gateway.
• Experience in data streaming technologies and NoSQL/GraphQL technologies.
• Experience in Data Modeling, Governance, and Data Management.
• Experience with Large/Small Language Models (AWS Bedrock, OpenAI) in application architecture.
• Proficiency in development technologies such as Python, NodeJS, React, RestAPI, MongoDB.

Nice-to-haves

• Familiarity with Responsible AI Framework.
• Knowledge of GenAI frameworks like Langchain for building and deploying applications.
• Experience with specific DevOps and MLOps practices.

Benefits

• Health Insurance coverage from the first day of employment for employees and eligible family members.
• 401(k) matching contributions dollar-for-dollar up to the first 5% of eligible pay.
• Pension Plan that is 100% funded by Travelers.
• Minimum of 20 days Paid Time Off annually, plus nine paid company Holidays.
• Access to a wellness program with tools, discounts, and resources.
• Mental health program providing access to free professional counseling services and health coaching.
• Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards program to support charitable contributions.