Senior Associate, Enterprise Architecture

Position Summary

The Sr. Associate, Enterprise Architecture is responsible for partnering with business, data & analytics and engineering teams to create and oversee the technical design of end-to-end solutions that meet business objectives and align with enterprise standards. This role is responsible for collaborating closely with stakeholders to guide the design, build and documentation of solutions, ensuring each solution is robust, secure, and strategically aligned with broader enterprise goals. A key part of the role will be to maintain good documentation of the processes, design and build of systems, working closely with the teams responsible for the implementation.

What You Will Do:

Technical Solution Design

• Develop and refine solution architectures, integrating applications, data flows, and technology platforms.
• Collaborate with development and infrastructure teams to validate feasibility, scalability, and performance considerations.

Architecture Review & Guidance

• Lead or participate in Architecture Review Board (ARB) processes to ensure proposed solutions adhere to enterprise principles.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of architecture principles, standards, and reference architectures.
• Provide a technical perspective in enterprise-wide governance processes, ensuring all solutions align with overall policies and guidelines.
• Define, socialize, and maintain business-architecture standards (naming conventions, modeling methods, documentation templates).

Process & Capability Modeling

• Document current-state and future-state process flows, value streams, and enterprise capability maps, by working with stakeholders from multiple domains.
• Identify optimization and innovation opportunities, prioritizing those that deliver quantifiable business value.

Data Architecture Support

• Support data modeling efforts, including conceptual and logical data models, data integration patterns, and data governance standards.
• Work with the teams to ensure consistent and accurate data definitions across the organization.

What You Will Have:

Required:

• Experience creating reference architecture diagrams with the use of any of the leading diagraming tools (Miro, Lucid, Draw.io, etc.) and ability to learn and adapt.
• Experience embedding security and compliance considerations into solution designs.
• Proficient in converting processes, relationships and concepts into diagrams.
• A good understanding of architecture patterns (e.g., microservices, event-driven, containerization) and integration methods (APIs, messaging).
• Ability to understand and describe cloud-based reference architecture diagrams and reasoning about them.
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure), with knowledge of key concepts, an understanding of how different cloud services and components connect together, their relative strengths and weaknesses, trade-offs and an opinion on best practices.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate complex concepts for business and technical audiences.
• Collaborative mindset for partnering across diverse teams and stakeholders.
• Prior experience programming in languages such as Python and SQL, with a good understanding of concepts, techniques and patterns involved.

Preferred:

• Experience in financial services, familiarity with buy-side investments concepts.
• Familiarity with reinsurance, actuarial and retrocession concepts.