Technical Architect

4 weeks ago

Chicago, Illinois, United States CNA Full time
Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled Technical Architect to join our team at CNA. As a key member of our technology organization, you will be responsible for driving our technical vision and strategy, and for leading the development of scalable, resilient, and cloud-native solutions that align with industry best practices and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) guidelines.

Key Responsibilities:

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Promote a culture of continuous learning and improvements by sharing knowledge and expertise in various forums.
  • Portfolio Delivery Execution Support
  • Architect and design scalable, resilient, and cloud-native solutions that align with industry best practices and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) guidelines.
  • Align portfolio-level architecture with broader enterprise architecture initiatives, contributing to the development of architectural frameworks and strategies.
  • Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, system architects, and offshore architects and development teams to ensure successful modernization and migration of our environment.
  • Provide technical leadership, partnership and mentorship to system architects and development teams, promoting best practices, code quality, and adherence to architectural standards.
  • Collaborate with Enterprise Architects and Portfolio Leads to understand the existing applications and strategy to develop technical solutions that meet scalability, security, and performance, and technical agility goals.
  • Alone or in collaboration with Enterprise Architects, drive conceptual architecture design and guardrails for portfolio including contextual overview, capability interaction, and system interactions to guide the release train for feature development.
  • Identify and assess technical risks and provide mitigation strategies to ensure successful modernization projects.
  • Drive architectural enabler activities inclusive of POC's or prototypes on unknown solution patterns or new automations/innovations to drive migration/modernization efficiencies.
  • Influence cross-domain capabilities.
  • Leads and facilitates architecture governance and review processes, including creation and technology standards, patterns, and strategies.
  • Researches and evaluates new and/or alternative solutions and technologies to enhance operational effectiveness, reduce costs and/or system risks and increase speed to market.
  • Collaborate with the agile portfolio leadership to plan and execute modernization initiatives, ensuring timely delivery and high-quality results.
  • Foster a culture of innovation, test and learn, and continuous learning within the technical team.

Requirements:

  • 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.

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