3 months ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Participate in or lead solution, roadmap, and architectural recommendation efforts.
- Facilitate or execute architecture governance processes, including blueprint and design reviews.
- Implement strategies for application stability and performance, including design, debugging, and performance analysis.
- Influence adoption of new concepts, techniques, best practices, guidelines, models, and technologies.
- Collaborate with architects, development groups, and OAI-Sys employees.
- Own deliverables for enterprise initiatives, Centers of Excellence, product evaluations, proof-of-concepts, and application utilities where assigned.
- Contribute to vendor and product management strategies for required infrastructures and frameworks.
- Provide architecture guidance to development teams and engage business stakeholders to translate requirements into IT solutions.
- Support project-level planning, budgeting, and estimating while managing cross-functional objectives and priorities.
Requirements
- Experience and knowledge in multiple technologies and architectures is required.
- Working knowledge of enterprise, application, and information architecture, architecture technology directions, product or project management, and the software development life cycle.
- General knowledge of Java, .NET, SQL, service-oriented architecture, and technical reference architectures.
- Experience with J2EE, web application development, SOAP, XML, REST, application frameworks, middleware, relational databases, content management, business intelligence, data warehouses, ETL, transaction design, application integration, and performance engineering.
- Experience influencing people in a matrixed organization and engaging business stakeholders.
- Ability to analyze novel or ambiguous issues, develop solutions from abstract information, prioritize independently, and make informed decisions.
- Ability to maintain organizational partnerships, influence peers and management, manage cross-functional priorities, and provide architecture guidance to development teams.
- Insurance industry experience is identified as general knowledge.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with full-time employees working three days per week in the office and two days at home, subject to company policy.
- Private medical insurance with single cover and an option to add dependents at the employee's expense.
- Company pension contribution with an increased contribution available when the employee contributes.
- At least 25 days of annual holiday entitlement, with the opportunity to purchase additional days up to 35 total holidays per year.
- Wellness tools, discounts, caregiving resources, and access to free professional mental health counseling.
- Volunteer encouragement plus Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards programs.
About Travelers
Travelers is a public property and casualty insurer that provides auto, home, and commercial coverage, plus risk management and claims services, to individuals and businesses. It distributes policies through independent agents and brokers across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. Founded in 1853 and headquartered in New York City, Travelers trades on the NYSE (TRV) and is the only property-casualty company in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.