Sr. Director, Enterprise Architecture

$220,000 - $250,000 / year + Bonus

The insurance industry runs on Vertafore. We equip agencies, MGAs, and carriers with the core digital systems, specialized AI, and data-driven foundation to eliminate distribution drag across the insurance lifecycle, spanning sales, servicing, and back-office operations.


Underpinned by unmatched speed and performance power, we are the trusted backbone that's taking the insurance industry from friction to flow with Distribution Velocity - speed, performance, and trust - to drive growth at scale.


With over 95% of the top agencies and insurers and 50% of industry compliance transactions running through Vertafore, we lead at the intersection of innovation and trust, giving insurance professionals the confidence to transform and win in the AI era.


Our reach is global, with headquarters in Denver, Colorado, and offices across the U.S., Canada, and India.


JOB DESCRIPTION


Are you ready to disrupt an industry? We are looking for an experienced thought leader with a passion for delivering forward thinking solutions around enterprise architecture. Reporting directly to our VP, Enterprise Architecture, you will be tasked with influencing all aspects of our SaaS based business delivering innovative designs to take Vertafore to the next level. You will often wear multiple hats and get a holistic, multi-faceted career-building experience working with top talent.


Core Requirements and Responsibilities:


Essential job functions included but are not limited to the following:

• Architecture / Strategy

• Collaborates with the CTO, members of the Technology Leadership team, Principal Engineers and Business Stakeholders to develop an Enterprise Architecture Vision & Strategy aligned with Company's company objectives.

• Works with various architects around the business, partners, and our PE firm in delivering successful strategy, planning and implementation of technical capabilities and platforms.

• Engage and develop relationships with leaders across the global organization to understand functional business needs and identify opportunities to introduce new technical solutions.

• Aligns closely with our Product Management and Engineering teams to ideate, scope, plan, estimate, coordinate, derisk roadmaps for our consumer facing experiences and tools.

• Drives thought leadership within the organization with presentations and architectural models that show how the current and future technology needs of the organization align to our company mission and the growth of our business.

• Delivery and Execution

• Define, maintain and evangelize the company's current and target platform strategy with reference architectures, business-system capability map, solution integration requirements and deployment guidelines.

• Drives adoption of new technology across the organization by delivering Proof of Concepts with supporting design diagrams, technical documentation, business impact analysis and ROI.

• Create technical requirements and global architecture to govern the security, scalability, sustainability, cost and overall quality of our infrastructure, systems, content and data.

• While this position is not expected to be an individual contributor on our production systems on a consistent basis, a person filling this role is expected to be hands-on enough to be able to jump in and help our teams with technical issues

• Team Building and Management

• Attract, hire & retain highly skilled architects.

• Assessing skills & building career development plans for direct reports.

• Performance management through alignment/setting of objectives/deadlines for direct reports and cross-functional teams.

• Acts as an expert advisor, coach and mentor across the technology organization on latest architecture principles and practices.

• Acts as a point of escalation for teams facing complex technical challenges

• Other duties as assigned

Skills & Requirements
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:


Qualifications:

• 15+ years of experience in application development, software & solution architecture with increasing responsibilities, with at least 5 of those managing teams of 5+ architects or engineers.

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or related field.

• Prior experience in SaaS platforms generating over $100M in software revenue

• A passion for mentoring and building strong technical leaders.

• Demonstrated ability to transform teams and technology in a rapidly growing environment.

• Experience leading cross-functional teams and delivering projects using Agile development practices.

• Experience with Continuous Delivery tools and DevOps practices.

• Experience with Data Technologies: Spark, Tableau, AWS EMR, S3 and other AWS Data Tech.

• Experience with Java, Python SQL, Ruby, .Net, C++,

• Experience with Serverless & microservices architecture.

• Experience with Containers: Docker, Kubernetes

• Strong API design and implementation skills.

• Strong presentation skills and written & spoken communication skills.

• Abreast of the latest and greatest technology advancements in web and native mobile platforms.

• Understanding of Big Data architectures, data science / Machine Learning platforms and Business Intelligence Visualization tools.

• Experience with the implementation and integration of business systems across the Accounting, Supply Chain and Manufacturing domains is a plus.

• Experience with physical retail technology solutions is a plus.

Additional Requirements and Details:

• Travel required up to 10% of the time.

• Located and working from an office location.

• Occasional lifting and/or moving up to 10 pounds.

• Frequent repetitive hand and arm movements required to operate a computer.

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision (working on a computer, etc.).

• Frequent sitting and/or standing.

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THE VERTAFORE STORY

Over the past 50 years, Vertafore has advanced the entire insurance distribution channel with the best software solutions in the industry. Today, we're proud to say hundreds of thousands of Vertafore users rely on our solutions to write business faster, reduce costs, and fuel growth by increasing collaboration and streamlining processes. Vertafore leads the industry with secure, cloud-based mobile products that provide superior reporting and analytics, delivering actionable insight- right when customers need it most. We partner with other leading technology companies to deliver comprehensive solutions to improve the way our customers do business and serve their customers.


The Vertafore Way

Insurance is about relationships, and technology should make those relationships stronger. That's why, at Vertafore, it's our mission to transform the way the industry operates by putting people at the heart of insurance technology. By focusing on our customers, becoming better every day, and delivering results you can see, we provide the level of trust and security that insurance is all about.
• Bias to Action: We're united by an innate drive to take action and make a difference in the technology and insurance spaces.
• Win Together: We work together as one team, showing empathy and respect along the way.
• Show Up Curious: We work to challenge one another to push boundaries and think beyond the box.
• Say It, Do It: We honor every one of our commitments because integrity is important to us.
• Customer Success is Our Success: We cultivate authentic relationships and follow up by actively listening to their needs.
• We Love Insurance: We appreciate the impact insurance has on the world.

Is this role not an exact fit for you? Keep an eye on our for other positions!

Vertafore is a drug free workplace and conducts preemployment drug and background screenings.

The selected candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all the job responsibilities, duties, skill, or working conditions. In addition, this document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" relationship.


Vertafore strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.

We do not accept resumes from agencies, headhunters, or other suppliers who have not signed a formal agreement with us.
Qualifications Vertafore is a Flexible First working environment which allows team members to work from home as often as you'd like, while using our offices as a place for collaboration, community, and teambuilding. There are times you may be asked to come into an office and/or travel for specific meetings for a specific business purpose and this varies by job responsibilities.


Why Vertafore is the place for you: *Canada Only

• The opportunity to work in a space where modern technology meets a stable and vital industry
• Medical, vision & dental plans
• Life, AD&D
• Short Term and Long Term Disability
• Pension Plan & Employer Match
• Maternity, Paternity and Parental Leave
• Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP)
• Education Assistance
• Additional programs - Employee Referral and Internal Recognition

Why Vertafore is the place for you: *US Only

• The opportunity to work in a space where modern technology meets a stable and vital industry
• We have a Flexible First work environment! Our North America team members use our offices for collaboration, community and team-building, with members asked to sometimes come into an office and/or travel depending on job responsibilities. Other times, our teams work from home or a similar environment.
• Medical, vision & dental plans
  • PPO & high-deductible options
• Health Savings Account & Flexible Spending Accounts Options:
  • Health Care FSA
  • Dental & Vision FSA
  • Dependent Care FSA
  • Commuter FSA
• Life, AD&D (Basic & Supplemental), and Disability
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plain & Employer Match
• Supplemental Plans - Pet insurance, Hospital Indemnity, and Accident Insurance
• Parental Leave & Adoption Assistance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Education & Legal Assistance
• Additional programs - Tuition Reimbursement, Employee Referral, Internal Recognition, and Wellness
• Commuter Benefits (Denver)

The selected candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States.


The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all the job responsibilities, duties, skill, or working conditions. In addition, this document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" relationship.


Vertafore strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.


The Professional Services (PS) and Customer Success (CX) bonus plans are a quarterly monetary bonus plan based upon individual and practice performance against specific business metrics. Eligibility is determined by several factors including: start date, good standing in the company, and actives status at time of payout.

The Vertafore Incentive Plan (VIP) is an annual monetary bonus for eligible employees based on both individual and company performance. Eligibility is determined by several factors including: start date, good standing in the company, and actives status at time of payout.

Commission plans are tailored to each sales role but common components include quota, MBO's and ABPMs. Salespeople receive their formal compensation plan within 30 days of hire.

Vertafore is a drug free workplace and conducts preemployment drug and background screenings.

We do not accept resumes from agencies, headhunters or other suppliers who have not signed a formal agreement with us.

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