Head of Portfolio Architecture, Corporate Functions

3 days ago

New York, NY, United States Yoh Full-time
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:
  • 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
Key Responsibilities
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.
Investment & Roadmap Influence
  • 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.
End-to-End Enterprise / Insurance Architecture Ownership
  • 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.
Governance, Risk & Compliance
  • 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.
Stakeholder & Leadership Engagement
  • 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.
Required Qualifications
  • 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