AVP Enterprise Architecture

Unum Group

Confirmed live yesterday High trust

Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
Chattanooga, TNPortland, MEAtlanta, GA
Salary
$133,500–$274,100 / yr
Posted
19 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

Market check

Salary context

Competitive pay

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $198k
This role $204k
$117k most similar roles pay here $291k

This role pays more than 59% of similar roles. Most pay $161,250–$233,875 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $204k versus about $198k for comparable roles.

Based on 239 similar postings.

Employer

About Unum Group

Unum Group is a leading provider of employee benefits and insurance solutions including disability, life, accident, critical illness, and dental/vision coverage for the workplace. Industry: Insurance & Employee Benefits

Unum Group currently has 5 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $75,500–$150,500 across 5 roles with salary data.

Most-posted roles

View all roles at Unum Group

At a glance

TL;DR · AVP Enterprise Architecture

AVP Enterprise Architecture serves as a key leader within the architecture team, responsible for creating and implementing enterprise architecture artifacts while ensuring technical directions align with business strategy. The role involves managing architectural standards, governance, and the development of sustainable technology roadmaps through collaboration with various stakeholders. Day-to-day responsibilities include mentoring staff, evaluating emerging technologies through prototyping and vendor engagement, and resolving architectural uncertainties via sprint execution. The position requires expertise in the systems development life-cycle, value stream mapping, and business capability definition. Key technical skills include familiarity with ArchiMate modeling language, BizzDesign tools, Agile/Lean methodologies, and Continuous Deployment techniques. This role addresses the challenge of maintaining a cost-effective, scalable IT portfolio while ensuring that architectural designs support high-quality runtime performance and seamless integration across diverse business area portfolios within the insurance and benefits sector.

What you'll do

  • Create and implement Enterprise Architecture artifacts and technology backlogs aligned with business strategy.
  • Ensure technical standards, frameworks, and processes are applied consistently across multiple applications and business areas.
  • Manage the lifecycle of the Target State Enterprise Architecture to ensure it remains adaptable to emerging trends.
  • Mentor and manage architects and technical leaders within assigned domains to improve architecture practices.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to develop, maintain, and implement sustainable technology roadmaps.
  • Evaluate, prototype, and select new tools, technologies, and vendors while conducting risk assessments.
  • Ensure architectural designs meet high standards for code quality, performance stability, and scalability.
  • Act as a thought leader by communicating technical strategy and innovation opportunities to senior leadership.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree required, or equivalent relevant experience.
  • Master's degree preferred.
  • Authority on systems development life-cycle and information system implementation from concept through support.
  • Proven experience leading value stream mapping and business capability definition.
  • Familiarity with ArchiMate as a modeling language for enterprise architecture (preferred).
  • Familiarity with BizzDesign for enterprise architecture modeling (preferred).
  • Knowledge of risk assessment, change management, configuration management, reliability, safety methods, and metrics.
  • Knowledge of Agile/Lean development methodologies and Continuous Deployment tools and techniques.

More like this

Similar roles

Senior Enterprise Architect

Cardinal Health

76 days ago $123,400$176,300
Enterprise Architecture Google Cloud AWS Microsoft Azure RESTful APIs HTML JavaScript ETL ELT EAI IaaS PaaS SaaS TOGAF Zachman HIPAA GDPR
4+ yrs exp Hybrid

Head of Enterprise Architecture, SVP

State Street

Quincy, MA 7 days ago $225,000$337,500
Cloud-Native Architecture Kubernetes Infrastructure-as-Code Distributed Systems Event Streaming AI Infrastructure Model Serving RAG Zero-Trust Security Multi-Cloud

Enterprise Architect

General Dynamics

Falls Church, VA 18 days ago $119,000$161,000
TOGAF DoWAF UML SysML Azure AWS M365 SharePoint ServiceNow Cameo MagicDraw Sparx EA Visio draw.io RMF Zero Trust ITIL CompTIA Security+
5+ yrs exp Hybrid

Principal Enterprise Architect

McKesson Corporation

Richmond, VA 33 days ago $178,500$297,500
Enterprise Architecture Solution Architecture Google Cloud Platform Kubernetes Terraform IaC DevOps AI Observability Monitoring Integration Infrastructure Security Service Management
10+ yrs exp

Enterprise Architect

Danaher Corporation

Sunnyvale, CA 124 days ago $190,000$220,000
Enterprise Architecture Generative AI Security Identity and Access Management Encryption TOGAF ArchiMate UML SAP LeanIX Process Modeling Compliance
10+ yrs exp