AVP, Enterprise Architect

Job Summary

The AVP, Enterprise Architect is responsible for defining and advancing enterprise-wide technology, application, integration, and data architecture strategies that support the organization’s business objectives and long-term transformation initiatives. This role translates business strategy into scalable, secure, and modern architecture frameworks, roadmaps, and governance practices that enable efficient, compliant, and customer-focused operations.

The AVP, Enterprise Architect partners closely with business, data, product, and technology leaders to align enterprise architecture with organizational priorities, modernization efforts, and operational needs across core insurance and corporate functions. This role also provides strategic architectural leadership, promotes enterprise standards and governance, and supports advancement of enterprise architecture maturity across the organization, and establishes and maintains architectural runway to enable effective sequencing of capabilities ahead of delivery.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Enterprise Architecture Strategy & Transformation (25%): Define and maintain enterprise target-state architecture across application, technology, data, and integration domains. Translate business capabilities and strategic objectives into architecture blueprints, modernization strategies, and multi-year transformation roadmaps. Establish and sequence enterprise architectural initiatives to support business priorities and technology execution. Drive alignment of enterprise architecture strategies with cloud-based, SaaS-first, and modern technology ecosystems. Support strategic planning and investment prioritization through architecture recommendations and business case development.
• Domain, Data & Integration Architecture Leadership (20%): Lead and govern domain-oriented architecture practices, including domain boundaries, ownership models, and interaction patterns. Partner with data and business architecture teams to support scalable, governed, and high-quality enterprise data architecture. Define and support enterprise integration strategies, including API-first, event-driven, and messaging-based integration patterns. Ensure alignment across core insurance, financial, actuarial, investment, reinsurance, and operational technology domains.
• Governance, Standards & Risk Management (15%): Establish and support enterprise architecture governance processes, standards, and design review practices. Ensure consistent application of architectural principles, policies, standards, and guardrails across initiatives and portfolios. Maintain enterprise architecture artifacts, documentation, and technology standards. Identify and manage enterprise-level architectural risks, including legacy system exposure, technical debt, and vendor dependencies. Ensure architecture strategies align with security, regulatory, compliance, and risk management requirements.
• Portfolio Modernization & Operational Excellence (15%): Lead application portfolio assessment and rationalization efforts, including lifecycle management and redundancy reduction. Drive modernization and technical debt reduction initiatives across applications, data, and integration platforms. Identify opportunities to improve scalability, operational efficiency, maintainability, and reuse across enterprise technology solutions. Support evaluation of vendor solutions, platform strategies, and buy-versus-build decisions.
• Data, Analytics & Emerging Technology Enablement (10%): Support enterprise data, analytics, and reporting capabilities across insurance and corporate functions. Provide architectural leadership for AI/ML and GenAI initiatives supporting business operations, analytics, automation, and customer experiences.