Enterprise Architect and Engagement Lead

Enterprise Architect and Engagement Lead

Chicago, IL

GB Nexus Architect with insurance domain experience and local to Illinois location

Enterprise Architect and Engagement Lead:

Base Job Description

The Enterprise Architect will serve as the day-to-day lead of the current state assessment of GB Nexus architecture, mapping platform capabilities against enterprise data strategy needs, leveraging a background in architecture, DataOps and metadata governance experience.

Role is to lead a strategy team tasked refining the building / maintaining / population of centralized GB's Nexus Data Hub to make it easier to operate, easier to extend existing data sources and data feeds, and adding the capability to scale in the cloud. This effort critically is about the design / governance / process of treating & managing data to gain scale of this data asset.

This individual is responsible for assembling and leading internal and external expertise and building a clear case for change but doing so under a tight timeframe.

Expectations

Need to be a self-starter with comfort for ambiguity. Needs to work well in an environment that at times can lack structure - individual needs to be comfortable creating the structure for their work as well as delivering it

Some level of insurance background strongly preferred - ideally with background in Claims / Claims Management and Commercial Property & Casualty Insurance Lines

While the role is remote, there will be a significant amount of interaction daily through Teleconferencing. In addition, US-based is strongly required, to have the ability to travel to Chicago / home office with some frequency

Flexibility to consistently work CT / ET time zones, but also at times support Australia / UK meeting times

Required cultural fit with Gallagher Bassett - mid-west / family-owned business culture where work needs to be driven & delivered but through a type B mindset

Significant role will be to mentor / collaborate with internal FTEs - success is raising the game of the entire team. The team is diverse in most ways, with many of the resources residing in Chicago, but also globally

Must be able / willing to collaborate with a remote team - work independently / dependently at the same time.

Key Skills

Technical

Generic but deep Strategic Architecture background - with the ability to implement said strategy for large corporations

Current and future state strategic roadmap development, with demonstrated ability to create detailed three-year roadmaps

Experience with implementation and management of global data infrastructure that has the capability to selectively centralize information

Strong proficiency in Python design / engineering as well as SQL, to quickly understand how the current state environment is constructed

Design / implementation experience with cloud / hosted environments such as Snowflake and Azure

Experience preferred building real-time systems with high availability

Others

Excellent communication skills - the ability to work with a wide range of executives as well as team members with varying degrees of experience / technical sophistication. Strong written communication abilities with the ability to build compelling PowerPoint-based executive messages independently.

Ability to work well with other highly intelligent / diverse architects - this is not merely a development role - it's expected to be a leadership and collaboration role with other peers of a similar position who are already staffed on the team

Inquisitive and curious disposition to find and solve problems

Experience with Lucid and/or other Arch Documentation Tools

Skills:

ROADMAP DEVELOPMENT