2 months ago
Hartford, CT, USA or St. Paul, MN, USASenior
Base Salary
$139k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Translate technology strategy and business direction into architecture roadmaps aligned with organizational priorities and investment goals.
- Design and document conceptual, logical, and solution architectures, including service decomposition, API design, data flows, and integration patterns.
- Drive AI-first architectural approaches and identify opportunities for AI and agentic architecture in solution design.
- Author Architecture Decision Records documenting context, alternatives, trade-offs, and rationale.
- Evaluate event-driven, request/response, and CQRS architectural patterns and recommend appropriate approaches.
- Prototype and develop technology proofs of concept using agentic frameworks, cloud-native agent platforms, and AI-assisted coding tools.
- Provide hands-on architectural guidance through design reviews, technical discussions, and implementation support.
- Present architecture options, technology assessments, modernization progress, risks, and recommendations to engineering teams and VP-level leadership.
- Translate AI capabilities and limitations into business-relevant guidance and build consensus for modernization initiatives.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, a related STEM field, or equivalent education and/or work experience.
- At least 6 additional years of architecture or software engineering experience; 8 years of architecture experience is listed for the ideal candidate.
- Experience designing cloud-native applications across AWS, Azure, or GCP, with AWS preferred.
- Understanding of solution architecture patterns, API design, data modeling, distributed systems, and microservices.
- Experience or familiarity integrating AI/ML services, LLM-based capabilities, agentic patterns, or AI-assisted decision workflows into application architectures.
- Understanding of AI architecture concerns including non-deterministic outputs, testing, validation, fallback design, latency tolerance, graceful degradation, and cost management.
- Exposure to prompt chaining, tool-use patterns, retrieval-augmented generation, or workflow engines coordinating AI and deterministic steps.
- Extensive experience working in an agile operational model and supporting transformational change.
- Strong knowledge of the insurance industry is preferred, along with the ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong analytical judgment, collaboration, verbal communication, written communication, and listening skills.
Benefits
- Health insurance coverage for eligible employees and family members begins on the first day of employment.
- Travelers matches 401(k) contributions dollar-for-dollar up to the first 5% of eligible pay, subject to an annual maximum, and offers a student-loan savings program and fully funded pension plan.
- Employees receive at least 20 days of paid time off annually plus nine paid company holidays.
- Wellness resources include discounts, caregiving support, mental health counseling, and health coaching.
- Travelers offers matching gifts and volunteer rewards programs.
- The posting states that the role may be filled at a level above or below the level included in the posting.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
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.