Director - Technical Architecture

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Chicago IL, United States CNA Full time

Director – Technical Architecture page is loaded Director – Technical Architecture Apply locations Chicago, IL, USA Remote, USA time type Full time posted on Posted 2 Days Ago job requisition id R-3014

You have a clear vision of where your career can go. And we have the leadership to help you get there. At CNA, we strive to create a culture in which people know they matter and are part of something important, ensuring the abilities of all employees are used to their fullest potential.

CNA seeks to offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package to our employees that helps them — and their family members — achieve their physical, financial, emotional and social wellbeing goals.

For a detailed look at CNA’s benefits, check out our Candidate Guide . The Architecture Consulting Director will join CNA as a proactive, hands-on individual contributor who will lead our technical vision and strategies for various technology disciplines, while crafting standards, best practices, and building reusable components. This role will guide how CNA builds, ships and runs software faster, with higher quality, while more secure. It is also pivotal in steering Agile architecture practices at CNA in partnership with delivery teams and prioritizing technical enablers to synergize delivery across portfolios.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Visionary Technology Leadership:

  • Drive technology vision and strategies and be the subject matter expert in the aligned technical disciplines.
  • Collaborate with and influence peer architects and shared service partners across technical disciplines to continuously maintain and improve the robustness, currency and simplification of the overall CNA tech stacks.
  • Enable innovation by monitoring technology trends, identifying and adopting new technologies and practices that deliver business value.
  • Embody servant leadership by prioritizing support for the development teams, facilitating collaboration, and empowering team members to enhance performance and achieve their full potential.

Strategic Planning & Delivery Alignment:

  • Construct and manage technology roadmaps that integrate with agile workstreams.
  • Prioritize technical enablers and facilitate the identification of interdependencies across delivery portfolios.
  • Connect dots across delivery portfolios, ensuring technical strategies support and enable business objectives.

Agile Best Practices :

  • Advocate and apply Agile architecture practices to ensure that technical capability planning extends the architectural runway for the delivery teams.
  • Collaborate with stream-aligned teams to solve real-world problems and discover new technical standards and best practices and harvest reusable assets from the emerging solutions.
  • Facilitate the reuse of existing standards, best practices and reusable components by the stream-aligned teams.

Standards, Best Practices & Reusable Components:

  • Develop technical standards and best practices, advocating for engineering excellence.
  • Establish guardrails on applying standards to real-world use cases while enabling decentralized decision-making by the delivery teams.
  • Champion the design and lead the hands-on implementation of reusable components for efficiency and standardization across the enterprise.

Continuous Learning:

  • Lead technical discipline guilds to facilitate community engagement, pursue engineering excellence, and advocate open, transparent sharing and contribution via innersourcing.
  • Promote a culture of continuous learning and improvements by sharing knowledge and expertise in various forums.

Reporting Relationship

Typically AVP or above

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

  • Strategic and innovative leader within a technology organization, passionate about advancing technical vision and strategy.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud native architecture and modern engineering practices is required, including modern public cloud services (AWS or GCP or Azure), mainstream programming languages (Java, JavaScript/Typescript, Python, etc.) and modern CI/CD platforms.
  • Understanding of agile methodologies and application of enterprise architecture principles to the development lifecycle.
  • Ability to design target state solution architectures leveraging modern decoupled, event based, API enabled architecture frameworks.
  • Strong knowledge of contemporary technology and business trends that allows architecture to solve problems in a creative and cost-effective manner.
  • Solid understanding of insurance functions and processes, both within the organization and across the industry
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal and consultative skills to work effectively and build partnerships and relationships across the organization.
  • Complex problem-solving skills with the ability to effectively and succinctly articulate an approach and solution for solving to both business and technology partners.
  • Understanding of end-to-end architecture processes and procedures, with familiarities with EA frameworks (e.g. TOGAF) and SAFe Agile preferred

Education & Experience

  • Degree in Business Information Systems, Computer Science or equivalent experience.
  • Typically, a minimum of nine years of solid, diverse work experience in technology including experience with business analysis and solution implementation.
  • Experience leading complex project teams and engaging with senior level business partners
  • Experience in commercial insurance industry and applicable certifications preferred

CNA is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in the recruitment process. To request an accommodation, please contact leaveadministration@cna.com .

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At CNA, we are focused on success, individually and collectively. We pride ourselves on promoting a culture that challenges and engages people. We strive to connect people, departments and business areas, to function as a team, and to serve our customers and communities with professionalism and respect.

Our dedication to employee engagement, continuous learning and the open exchange of ideas is the cornerstone of our business. These ideals, combined with our focus on the customer, enable us to explore new market opportunities and build on our success.

Our values, culture and financial strength are what differentiates us from other employers and make CNA the place you want to work.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

CNA is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture grounded in equity that supports our organization, clients, and communities by prioritizing talent and programs that represent our current environment and empower all employees and partners to be active allies and advocates for equality. Globally, our Employee Resource Groups — Advocacy for Visible & Invisible Disabilities (AVID), Asian Professionals for Excellence (APEX), Empowering Black Professionals (EBP), Generational Perspectives (GP), Organization of Hispanics and Latine Americanos (OHLA), Pride, Women Impacting Leadership (WIL) and Veterans — make CNA, and our communities, even stronger.

Corporate Social Responsibility

At CNA, we have a long standing commitment to the diverse communities in which we live and work. We actively make a difference for the greater good through partnerships, sustainability, initiatives, and working together for a better tomorrow. Corporate Social Responsibility is not one person, or one department, it's the entire enterprise coming together to make the world a better place.

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