IT Enterprise Architect
- Employer
- Assurant
- Location
- Atlanta, Georgia
- Salary
- Not Specified
- Closing date
- Jun 16, 2019
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- Category
- IT
- Job Type
- Not Specified
- Career Level
- Not Specified
Job Details
For the Global Technology Strategy and Architecture team, this position provides leadership as a change agent to enable the business strategy with new and enhanced capabilities. They will define and drive toward a future state that increases portfolio agility while avoiding and mitigating risk. They establish relationships with key partners and leadership based on personal integrity and trustworthiness. Focus areas will include cloud, enterprise integration, API management, application rationalization and a common application architecture.
Responsibilities include:
- Roadmaps: strategic planning to accelerate progress toward target state
- Opportunity definitions: signature-ready recommendations to bridge from strategy to execution
- Technology standards: enable optimal technology add, remove and reuse decisions
- Innovation: documenting the relevant top emerging trends and technologies with their associated impacts and recommendations; managing idea pipeline
- Governance: guiding principles, reviewing and aligning
- Stakeholder engagement: build/maintain relationships, advising, consulting, staying connected/aware
- Recommending high-level solutions in response to business imperatives
- Development and implementation of enterprise architecture practice improvements
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree
- 8 years of experience in a technology role
- 2+ years of experience in IT architecture or strategic role
Other Requirements
- Experience with and understanding of the deliverables and value proposition of Enterprise Architecture
- Strong understanding of corporate strategy (and how technology supports and enables)
- Deep understanding of technology trends and a broad knowledge of technology products and vendors
- Experience influencing significant, positive change
- Experience establishing long-term, collaborative relationships
- Experience developing cost benefit analysis around technology decisions
- Ability to organize and lead diverse groups toward common goals
- Enterprise-mindset: ability to identify opportunities that maximize benefit to the enterprise as a whole
- Systems and conceptual thinking: ability to capture the key elements of a system into a simple abstraction that empowers good decisions
- Critical and analytical thinking: ability to analyze multiple long and short-term competing factors to arrive at high-quality recommendations
- Communication: ability to effectively communicate (written, verbal, and presentation skills) to multiple levels within the business and technology organizations
- Intellectual curiosity: ability to learn quickly and with enthusiasm
Preferred Experience and Knowledge
- Prior experience as an Enterprise Architect or Solution Architect
- Multiple years of strategic planning experience
- Strong vendor management, portfolio management, project management and enterprise change management skills
- Exposure to multiple technology environments within large, diversified companies
- Experience defining and executing application rationalization, enterprise integration, API management and cloud strategies
Company
At Assurant, we protect, connect and support major consumer purchases ... like homes, cars, appliances, and phones ... in partnership with industry-leading brands.
The brands people trust ... trust Assurant.
We help our clients connect and protect over 300 million consumers around the world.
We have 125 years of experience, 14,000 employees and operate in 21 countries.
Our unwavering purpose
We protect what matters most.
Our uncompromising values
Common sense, common decency, uncommon thinking and uncommon results guide the way we support our customers and work with each other. guide the way we support our customers and work with one another.
COMMON SENSE
We seek simple, straightforward solutions that keep life running smoothly for the clients and consumers we serve.
COMMON DECENCY
We act with integrity. We treat others with respect, courtesy, and kindness. We’re honest, transparent and committed to doing the right thing.
UNCOMMON THINKING
We're never satisfied with the status quo. We seek diverse perspectives and thrive on challenge. We believe there's always a way to build upon our successes.
COMMON RESULTS
We focus on actionable solutions that deliver measurable results. We approach each challenge with a sense of urgency, striving to exceed every expectation.
- Website
- https://jobs.assurant.com/
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