Chief Architect - COG- permanent 

Chubb is the world’s largest publicly traded property and casualty insurer. With operations in 54 countries, Chubb provides commercial and personal property and casualty insurance, personal accident and supplemental health insurance, reinsurance and life insurance to a diverse group of clients. The company is distinguished by its extensive product and service offerings, broad distribution capabilities, exceptional financial strength, underwriting excellence, superior claims handling expertise and local operations globally.

Scope
The Chief Architect will lead technology architecture for one or more of Chubb's businesses or functional segments.

Responsibilities

Responsible for directing a team of Software Solutions Architects and Platform Architects Ensure alignment between business and technology partners and leadership peers in the organization.  Partner with Senior business and technology leaders to identify technology gaps; design and implement solutions that drive business growth and transformation. Establish technical target state and roadmap for critical domains and business areas, ensuring multi-year plan incorporates and aligns with the overall technology strategy. Drive comprehensive solution architecture patterns and practice integrating with systems and partners influencing designing APIs, documenting data exchange patterns, and compiling best practices. Contribute to the creation of global platforms and drive adoption across the Chubb Overseas regions. Optimize the application portfolio for local agility and global efficiency. Drive strategy and Roadmap curation. Work with the regional CIOs and executive leaders to develop and execute the technical strategy to drive the business growth objectives. Bridge engineering and architecture teams to drive commonality, standards, and best practices. Drive continuous technology transformations and improvement to minimize technical debt. Analyze industry trends to leverage technology advances. Communicate architectural direction and its alignment with enterprise strategy. Direct the architecture community to maintain engineering best practices and utilization of fit for purpose emerging technologies. Partner with Risk and Cyber Security leadership to ensure technology architecture complies with risk standards and industry and regulatory compliance. 

 

 

 

 

Qualifications

Experience transforming architecture function towards greater automation and engineering excellence. Excellent communication and proven ability to synthesize large amounts of data/information to present to senior leadership and other target audiences. Experience with financial services sector, insurance preferred. Experience working in an agile environment. Previous experience as a Chief Architect at a Fortune 500 company is preferred.