Sr. Director, Data Architecture

$155,400 - $256,500/Yr

Travelers - Hartford, CT

Full-time - Senior

Hartford, CT

Insurance Carriers and Related Activities

About the position

As a Leader of Data Architecture within Personal Insurance at Travelers, you will be part of a strategic team focused on transforming business and technology capabilities. This role involves collaborating with senior leaders to design and implement next-generation information architecture that aligns with business goals, leveraging modern technology and data analytics to drive innovation and minimize technical debt.

Responsibilities

• Design the next generation Information Architecture that accelerates the business vision.
• Be an expert in one or more areas across the Data & Analytics domain including data analytics, data integration, business intelligence, artificial intelligence & machine learning.
• Develop architecture priorities and direction to enable business imperatives.
• Display strong thought leadership in pursuit of modern architecture principles and technology modernization.
• Drive continuous technology transformation to minimize technical debt.
• Create a partnership with Senior Software Engineering leadership.
• Look for opportunities to capitalize on technology advances through analysis of key industry and technology trends to assess potential impact on the enterprise.
• Define and lead technology proof of concepts to ensure feasibility of new technology architecture solutions.
• Define target state information architecture and roadmaps.
• Prepare and deliver comprehensive communications to convey architectural direction and how it aligns with enterprise strategy.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in technology related field or equivalent with 7+ years of Architecture experience.
• Organizational and transformational Leadership Experience in an agile operating model.
• Strong technical background in the information Architecture space.
• Software Development experience.
• Experience in AWS components including Lambda, Kinesis/Firehose, Airflow, Glue, Spark, EC2, SageMaker, S3, NoSQL database and API Gateway.
• Experience in data streaming technologies.
• Experience with No SQL and GraphQL technologies.
• Experience in Data Modeling, Governance and Data Management.
• Experience with specific DevOps and MLOps (Machine Learning) practices.
• Personal Insurance technology experience.
• Experience with Data Governance and Management to enable data lineage, audit/ balance/ control, data domain and data quality projects.
• Has hands on experience in the last 3 years.
• Experienced with large scale technology platforms.
• Experience modernizing data technology and information architecture on cloud.
• Exposure and understanding of advanced analytics techniques using ML and AI.
• Hands on experience with data technologies on cloud.

Benefits

• Health Insurance: Coverage for employees and eligible family members from the first day of employment.
• Retirement: 401(k) matching contributions dollar-for-dollar up to the first 5% of eligible pay, and a fully funded Pension Plan.
• Paid Time Off: Minimum of 20 days annually plus nine paid company holidays.
• Wellness Program: Access to tools and resources for wellness goals, including professional counseling services.
• Volunteer Encouragement: Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards program to support charitable contributions.