Enterprise Architect

Location: Arden Hills

Job Id: 218

# of Openings: 1

Role Summary

The Enterprise Architect defines, maintains, and governs target‑state application and data architecture across the organization, ensuring technology investments align with business strategy, regulatory requirements, and modernization goals.

This role bridges strategy and delivery by translating business needs into scalable, secure, and compliant architectures that integrate with core insurance platforms.

Partners with executives, IT leaders, and delivery teams to set architectural guardrails, reduce complexity and technical debt, and guide portfolio and initiative decisions.

Responsibilities

Enterprise Architecture Strategy

• Define and evolve enterprise application and data architecture aligned to business strategy and insurance operations.
• Maintain multi‑year roadmaps for applications, data platforms, and integrations.
• Establish and govern architectural principles, standards, and reusable patterns.
• Own the enterprise view of the application portfolio (e.g., PAS; underwriting, claims, billing, and servicing; actuarial/finance/regulatory systems).
• Lead rationalization, modernization, and legacy retirement strategies.
• Define enterprise data domains and ownership aligned to life insurance capabilities.
• Guide enterprise data platforms for operational reporting, enterprise reporting, and BI.
• Ensure appropriate management of master/reference data, metadata, and lineage.
• Ensure data quality, privacy, and regulatory compliance.

Insurance Domain Leadership

• Apply deep understanding of life insurance processes (new business/underwriting; servicing/billing; claims/benefits; valuation/reserves; regulatory and financial reporting).
• Consider downstream impacts across the insurance value chain in all architectural decisions.

Governance & Decision Support

• Assess initiatives for architectural fit, risk, and alignment to target state.
• Communicate trade‑offs and risks to executive and senior‑leader audiences.
• Ensure solutions comply with:
  • Insurance regulations and reporting requirements
  • Data privacy laws and internal security standards
  • Audit‑related controls
• Provide architectural oversight through the SDLC (design reviews and major release milestones).

Enablement of Delivery Teams

• Partner with product managers, BAs, and delivery teams during discovery, design, and implementation.
• Design end‑to‑end application and data solutions for life insurance capabilities (e.g., PAS, underwriting, claims, billing, commissions, reinsurance, actuarial).
• Produce architecture artifacts (integration diagrams, data flows/logical models, API and event‑driven designs, and cloud/hybrid deployment architectures).
• Support major transformation initiatives (PAS conversions, data platform modernization, cloud adoption).

Cloud Strategy

• Own enterprise cloud strategy for applications and data, aligned with business objectives, risk appetite, and regulatory requirements.
• 10+ years in IT, including solutions and enterprise architecture.
• Strong experience with life insurance and annuities, including core insurance platforms.
• Led large‑scale modernization or transformation programs.

Technical & Architectural Expertise

• Enterprise application architecture and portfolio management.
• Data architecture (domains, warehouse/lake concepts, ETL/ELT).
• Integration architecture (APIs, messaging, batch, hybrid).
• Cloud/hybrid platforms (Azure, AWS, or equivalent).
• SDLC and DevOps practices.

Domain Knowledge

• Deep understanding of life insurance products, policy lifecycles, and regulatory requirements.
• PAS ecosystem experience; system conversion experience preferred.
• Understanding of actuarial and finance data needs and constraints.

Professional Skills

• Connect technology decisions to business outcomes through strategic thinking.
• Executive‑level communication and presentation skills.
• Influence across teams without direct authority.
• Disciplined approach to documentation and decision governance.

Benefits

• Generous vacation & holidays
• Short & long‑term disability coverage
• 401(K) plan with enhanced match
• Health savings account
• A health club or fitness equipment subsidy
• Rooftop open‑air pool with locker facilities
• On‑site fitness center
• Free on‑site parking

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