Head of Portfolio Architecture, Corporate Functions
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New York, NY, United States
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Head of Portfolio Architecture, Corporate Functions
Direct Hire (Base + Bonus)
Work Location (Hybrid): 3 days/week onsite — New York, NY, Holmdel, NJ, or Bethlehem, PA
We’re prioritizing candidates with:
Portfolio Architecture Leadership
Direct Hire (Base + Bonus)
Work Location (Hybrid): 3 days/week onsite — New York, NY, Holmdel, NJ, or Bethlehem, PA
We’re prioritizing candidates with:
- Insurance industry architecture leadership experience
- Architecture & technology alignment at portfolio scale (not just solution design)
- Strong governance mindset that enables speed, not blocks it
- Executive presence and proven ability to influence investment/roadmaps
Portfolio Architecture Leadership
- Drive cohesive architecture across multiple value streams, ensuring end-to-end design consistency across platforms, products, and capabilities.
- Own the Corporate Functions target-state architecture, portfolio roadmap, architecture priorities, and investment influence.
- Advance modern platform architecture across cloud, data, integration, and AI capabilities.
- Improve engineering productivity and delivery speed by defining architecture patterns, guardrails, and operating models that scale.
- Partner with Solution Architects to establish scalable patterns and with enterprise architecture leadership for cross-portfolio alignment and trade-offs.
- Serve as the primary architecture advisor to the Corporate Functions digital/technology leadership team, shaping strategy, priorities, and transformation sequencing.
- Manage and develop a team of Solution Architects; raise architecture maturity across the portfolio.
- Be available for high-impact production incidents affecting business operations.
- Shape and influence strategic investments across Corporate Functions (HR, Legal, Finance, Risk, Investments).
- Guide architecture across core enterprise platforms such as Workday, Oracle, and ServiceNow, plus integration/API ecosystem enablement.
- Balance near-term delivery commitments with long-term sustainability.
- Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt, increase reuse, and accelerate time-to-market—driving simplification across business units, not just within the portfolio.
- Drive holistic architecture across:
- Business processes and operating value streams
- Core and surrounding application ecosystems
- Integration and event-driven architectures
- AI/ML use cases (e.g., underwriting/claims automation, fraud, personalization)
- Digital experiences for customers, distribution partners (agents/brokers), and internal users
- Ensure solutions meet regulatory, risk, security, privacy, and resiliency requirements (e.g., SOX/SOC expectations, data privacy).
- Promote cloud-native, API-first, data-centric, and AI-enabled patterns where appropriate.
- Define/enforce architecture principles and guardrails aligned to enterprise standards and insurance regulatory expectations.
- Lead or participate in architecture review and governance forums; ensure decisions are auditable and practical.
- Partner with security, risk, compliance, and legal stakeholders to support operational resilience and auditability.
- Act as a trusted advisor to Corporate Functions leaders and senior technology leadership.
- Represent architecture trade-offs in enterprise forums and influence outcomes across business units.
- Communicate architectural direction, risks, and trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Mentor and develop architects across the portfolio.
- 7+ years in technology/architecture roles, with significant experience in the insurance industry (or similarly regulated financial services with deep insurance exposure).
- Proven experience as a Portfolio / Domain / Product / Enterprise Architect in a large, regulated environment.
- Deep understanding of insurance operations and systems (policy, underwriting, claims, billing, distribution) and how they connect to enterprise platforms.
- Strong knowledge of Corporate Functions ecosystems: HR, Legal, Finance, Risk, Investments.
- Expertise across enterprise architecture domains: business, application, data, integration, AI, and digital.
- Demonstrated success influencing senior leaders on technology strategy and investment decisions.
- Strong knowledge of cloud platforms, modern integration patterns, data platforms, and applied AI capabilities.
- Solid grasp of regulatory, risk, compliance, and resil