Architect - Data & Analytics

Hartford, CT, United States

Who Are We?

Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That’s the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 160 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.

Job Category

Technology

Compensation Overview

The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.

Salary Range

$118,800.00 - $196,000.00

Target Openings

1

What Is the Opportunity?

As a member of Enterprise Technology Services, you’ll be joining a strategic and collaborative Architecture team that is passionate about transforming our business and technology capabilities and paving the way for best-in-class solutions.

As an Architect within the Business Insurance architecture organization, you will collaborate with Engineers, Technology and Business leaders and apply your knowledge of modern technology to influence and innovate solutions that impact the business. In this role we will look to you to:

• Collaborate with Enterprise Architects, Business Architects, Line of business engineers and support teams to help partners and customers learn and use AWS services such as Athena, Glue, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB NoSQL, Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon EMR, DataBricks and Snowflake.

• Help us to build solutions by delivering on technical engagements with partners and customers.

• Partner with cloud and security architects, data and software engineers to implement cutting-edge but pragmatic solutions that will enable business outcomes using a combination of deep technical skills, business acumen, and strong interpersonal skills.

• Help the program team to deliver by leveraging cloud native and enterprise approved cloud tools and technologies.

• Help in engagements to migrate applications and datasets to AWS cloud.

• Innovate by working with the customer’s business and technology stakeholders.

• Create a compelling vision of a data-driven enterprise for Business Insurance.

• Guide through your hands on experience leading large-scale global data lake/warehousing and analytics projects.

• Guide delivery organization for modeling and standardizing the data for analytics.

• Help to establish governance and control processes to ensure successful and healthy Data Platform implementations.

Let us help you accelerate your career as we grow our team and transform our business!

What Will You Do?

• Build implementation patterns using your expertise and background on AWS cloud natives capabilities such as Athena, Glue, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB NoSQL, Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon EMR and Snowflake.

• Deliver solutions on technical engagements with partners and customers.

• Perform Proof of Concept/s on technologies and services to support business needs.

• Share learnings from your past large-scale global data lake/warehousing and analytics projects.

• Collaborate effectively across organizations.

• Educate and choose right types of datastores for the use case (NoSQL, SQL databases, Object File stores, etc.)

• Create blue prints and assist in engineering designs leveraging AWS Serverless and data services.

• Exhibit customer facing skills to represent AWS well within the customer’s environment and drive discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs and best practices.

• Interact with different levels of the organization from development to C-Level executives

• Ensure data standards and modeling principles are followed in the data solutions and platforms.

• Manage and Monitor the data quality of the content in the data architecture and platforms.

• Balance tactical vs strategic trade-offs when making decisions or proposing solutions.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

Bachelor’s in technology related field or equivalent with 5+ years of technology Engineering experience

Hands on experience with DynamoDB NoSQL, Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon EMR, Snowflake, NoSQL, SQL databases, Object File stores, etc.)

Organizational experience in an agile operating model

Established work in proof of concepts and technology

Strong proven Software Engineering experience

Supports technology target state, roadmaps that aligned to Short- and Long-term business goals

Insurance technology experience desired

Strong grasp of value creation and business capability models

Innovation and Continuous Improvement

Must be passionate about technology transformations

Has hands on experience in the last 3 years

Executed technology modernization initiatives including migration to cloud native and API Strategy

Current experience with AWS, APIs, accelerators, DevSecOps

Cloud Architecture Certification (AWS, GCP, or Azure) or strong architecture experience on Cloud

Good understanding of security

Experienced with large scale technology platforms

Exposure and understanding of advanced analytics techniques using ML and AI

Hands on experience with data technologies on cloud

What is a Must Have?

Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent in work experience.

Five years of experience in engineering software or analytic applications within a line of business area

What Is in It for You?

Health Insurance : Employees and their eligible family members – including spouses, domestic partners, and children – are eligible for coverage from the first day of employment.

Retirement: Travelers matches your 401(k) contributions dollar-for-dollar up to your first 5% of eligible pay, subject to an annual maximum. If you have student loan debt, you can enroll in the Paying it Forward Savings Program. When you make a payment toward your student loan, Travelers will make an annual contribution into your 401(k) account. You are also eligible for a Pension Plan that is 100% funded by Travelers.

Paid Time Off: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 20 days Paid Time Off annually, plus nine paid company Holidays.

Wellness Program: The Travelers wellness program is comprised of tools, discounts and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals and caregiving needs. In addition, our mental health program provides access to free professional counseling services, health coaching and other resources to support your daily life needs.

Volunteer Encouragement: We have a deep commitment to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards program that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice.

Employment Practices

Travelers is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that we can deliver the very best products and services when our workforce reflects the diverse customers and communities we serve. We are committed to recruiting, retaining and developing the diverse talent of all of our employees and fostering an inclusive workplace, where we celebrate differences, promote belonging, and work together to deliver extraordinary results.

In accordance with local law, candidates seeking employment in Colorado are not required to disclose dates of attendance at or graduation from educational institutions.

If you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email ([email protected]) so we may assist you.

Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting.

To learn more about our comprehensive benefit programs please visit http://careers.travelers.com/life-at-travelers/benefits/ .