Description:
CSAA Insurance Group (CSAA IG), a AAA insurer, is one of the top personal lines property and casualty insurance groups in the U.S. Our employees proudly live our core beliefs and fulfill our enduring purpose to help members prevent, prepare for and recover from life's uncertainties, and we're proud of the culture we create together. As we commit to progress over perfection, we recognize that every day is an opportunity to be innovative and adaptable. At CSAA IG, we hire good people for a brighter tomorrow. We are actively hiring for a Principal Architect. Join us and support CSAA IG in achieving our goals.
Your Role:
The Principal Enterprise Architect serves as a member of the CTO office or a senior staff within each of the individual business or technology domains within IT. They will play a key role in defining, planning, and realizing the enterprise technology vision aligned with the business and IT strategy. Responsibilities include researching, analyzing, designing, proposing, and delivering business solutions that are appropriate for the corporate, business and technology strategies.
Your work:
- Facilitating designs and building solutions across the enterprise, with a focus on evolving our technical capabilities in support of delivering business capabilities. Solutions are built in a highly collaborative environment, partnering with engineering, product, and program leaders
- Leads and provides direction to Application Integration, Data, and Platform architecture vision for the enterprise
- Works on the most sophisticated projects and supplies to the overall strategic vision of the organization
- Integrates a broad range of ideas regarding technical and solution architecture, while developing strategies for migration toward the cloud architectural vision
- Partners with business leaders to provide expert technical advice and influence strategic decision making
- Assess industry trends (business and technology) and appropriately position their subject areas
- Provides thought leadership, build strategies and make recommendations on a wide variety of sophisticated issues having a significant and strategic impact on processes and the business
- Crafts, guides, and partners with other architects in crafting and maintaining roadmaps that connect business strategies to capabilities and provide a milestone-view of the cadence needed to move from current state to future state
- Delivers a clear, pragmatic, approach with applicability to meet immediate business needs
- Demonstrates a strong ability to learn new information and systems quickly, works successfully in a highly matrixed organization
- Effectively handle priorities, deliverables and timelines with little need for partner concern
- Demonstrates a strong bias for architecture principles balanced with tactical schedules, cost, and risks
- Leverage the appropriate mix of in-house and outsourced resources to protect intellectual property