Enterprise Strategy Architect

The Enterprise Strategy Architect will act as an individual contributor to work with architecture, engineering, and business partners across Chubb to define the strategy, architecture, and ensure best engineering practices for strategic platform efforts across the company.

Responsibilities

• Create and evolve the enterprise-wide platform strategy.
• Communicate and get buy-in of strategy from senior executive stakeholders.
• Develop strategic vision and roadmaps for platforms across Chubb.
• Act as a key individual contributor driving the strategy and direction for the modernization of the Chubb technology portfolio.
• Create the operating models and mobilize the platform strategy.
• Prioritize the platforms that need to be built or standardized on based on business drivers and pain points.
• Understand the needs of the platform client teams, and influence platform roadmaps to meet those needs.
• Influence teams across the company to adopt platforms and create patterns to make adoption easier.

• Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science or Engineering degrees preferred.
• Polished written and verbal communication skills, ability to communicate with executive audiences.
• 15+ years of experience in software engineering and architecture.
• Coding experiences and skills preferred in Java, .Net, Python, Kafka, MQ, JavaScript, Angular, Node.js, and Azure.
• Ability to guide and mentor junior and senior architects to drive good architecture practices and standards.
• Ability to guide and mentor development teams on sound design and coding principles, best practices in API-based, Micro Services and Cloud environments.
• Experience in application modularization and modernization including adoption of Micro Service Architecture models.
• Ability to abstract-up to harvest patterns and articulate design decisions with senior audience (CIO level).
• Knowledge and experience in insurance domain is a plus.
• Experience in Information Security and Risk Management.
• Experience in cloud solution design and implementation of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS and hybrid models.
Understanding of platform design and technology considerations to build out an ecosystem for producers, clients, and internal staff.

Key Attributes

• Needs to be a self-motivated individual with drive to accomplish and drive outcome based actions.
• Ability to think strategically as well as iteratively and create executable architecture.
• Ability to effectively communicate complex topics, both written and verbally, and influence senior leadership.
• Proven track record in creating business cases for architecture initiatives and mobilize funding by getting approval from the right parties.
• Strong business acumen, ability to quickly understand business needs and develop appropriate solutions.
• Track record of high achievement in a team-based and results-oriented culture.
• Proven track record in relationship-building and driving change in a matrixed work environment.
• Demonstrated passion and ability to leverage technology to evolve and meet business needs.
• Exceptional analytical and critical thinking skills, with thorough attention to detail.
Excellent planning, documentation, and problem-solving skills.

The pay range for the role is $240,000 to $255,000. The specific offer will depend on an applicant’s skills and other factors. This role may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program. Chubb offers a comprehensive benefits package, more details on which can be found on our careers website. The disclosed pay range estimate may be adjusted for the applicable geographic differential for the location in which the position is filled.

Chubb is a world leader in insurance. With operations in 54 countries, Chubb provides commercial and personal property and casualty insurance, personal accident and supplemental health insurance, reinsurance, and life insurance to a diverse group of clients. The company is distinguished by its extensive product and service offerings, broad distribution capabilities, exceptional financial strength, underwriting excellence, superior claims handling expertise and local operations globally.

At Chubb, we are committed to equal employment opportunity and compliance with all laws and regulations pertaining to it. Our policy is to provide employment, training, compensation, promotion, and other conditions or opportunities of employment, without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, ancestry, mental and physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, age, and pregnancy or any other characteristic protected by law. Performance and qualifications are the only basis upon which we hire, assign, promote, compensate, develop and retain employees. Chubb prohibits all unlawful discrimination, harassment and retaliation against any individual who reports discrimination or harassment.