Senior or Principal Enterprise Architect

Company: FM Global
Location: Newport News
Posted on: November 22, 2020

Job Description:

More information about this job: Overview: FM Global is a leading property insurer of the world's largest businesses, providing more than one-third of FORTUNE 1000-size companies with engineering-based risk management and property insurance solutions. FM Global helps clients maintain continuity in their business operations by drawing upon state-of-the-art loss-prevention engineering and research; risk management skills and support services; tailored risk transfer capabilities; and superior financial strength. To do so, we rely on a dynamic, culturally diverse group of employees, working in more than 100 countries, in a variety of challenging roles

Responsibilities: Overview / Responsibilities The Enterprise Architect (EA) is responsible for strategic alignment of technology with business vision to enable desired outcomes. This individual identifies and assesses the current state of the technology, systems and processes at FM Global and provides recommendations, strategies, and roadmaps to move the company toward an optimized target state that improves business capabilities and drives innovation! The incumbent will collaborate with Solution Architects to provide guidance that ensures technology products are designed to support the evolution of business objectives. The EA provides technical governance for certain overarching technical constructs. The EA fosters collaboration across the Product and Technology Enablement organizations at FM Global and develops cross-organizational relationships with business and technology partners to influence the enterprise-wide architecture.

Qualifications: Knowledge and Experience 10+ years’ experience designing, developing, implementing enterprise scale technology solutions

3+ years’ experience defining and implementing strategies under a CIO or technical leader

Subject matter expertise in one or more architecture domains: application, security, data, integration, infrastructure

Organizationally savvy; skilled strategist and planner

Designing enterprise architecture with modern, enabling technologies and processes (e.g. cloud computing, CI/CD, virtualization, agile design and development, JavaScript frameworks, REST services, mobile development, standards based authentication and authorization protocols)

Collaborating with Solution Architects, information security, business process architects, product owners, and business strategists to design and communicate an innovative, secure, and pragmatic architecture that enables continuous delivery of business value

Conducting technology evaluations, proof of concepts, prototyping

System integration patterns and best practices

Strong communication skills: oral presentations, writing, negotiation, active listening, influencing positive team dynamics.

Architectural reviews and technology governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field; or equivalent work experience and training. Advanced degree and certification are desirable.

We offer our employees a wide range of benefits including career long learning opportunities, tuition reimbursement, 401 (k), pension, flexible schedules, rich health and well-being programs, generous time off allowances, volunteer days and so much more!

FM Global is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to attracting, developing and retaining a diverse workforce.

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