AVP, Senior Principal Enterprise Architect - Data

CNA Financial

Confirmed live 2 days ago High trust
Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Chicago, IL
Salary
$152,000–$242,000 / yr
Posted
65 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live 2 days ago

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How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $189k
This role $197k
$132k most similar roles pay here $254k

This role pays more than 56% of similar roles. Most pay $155,000–$223,750 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $197k versus about $189k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About CNA Financial

CNA Financial is a Chicago-based commercial property and casualty insurance company, offering business insurance and risk-management services to companies across the United States and internationally.

CNA Financial currently has 18 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $97,000–$189,000 across 15 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · AVP, Senior Principal Enterprise Architect - Data

AVP, Senior Principal Enterprise Architect - Data serves as a senior individual contributor providing architectural leadership across complex portfolios within the Data Portfolio. This role connects enterprise strategy with execution by driving cross-portfolio integration, defining domain-level strategies, and ensuring architectural alignment and reuse. The architect will develop shared capabilities, manage reference architectures, and oversee architectural governance while mentoring other architects to improve maturity. Key responsibilities include translating goals into actionable roadmaps and evaluating emerging technologies for strategic adoption. The role requires expertise in the commercial P&C insurance industry and proficiency in enterprise architecture frameworks like TOGAF and SAFe Agile. Technical skills include designing scalable, decoupled, event-based, and API-enabled architectures. This position addresses the challenge of building with a data mindset to align delivery value streams across various upstream portfolios and business units.

What you'll do

  • Define and drive unified architectural strategies across portfolios by translating enterprise goals into actionable roadmaps.
  • Serve as a strategic advisor to senior leaders to shape investment decisions and transformation efforts.
  • Identify and develop shared capabilities, architectural patterns, and platform solutions to ensure cross-portfolio integration.
  • Manage end-to-end architectural design and execution for specific portfolios in collaboration with engineering teams.
  • Establish and enforce architectural standards, guardrails, and risk oversight across the data domain.
  • Develop and evolve reference architectures and capability strategies to guide adoption and implementation.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and propose domain-level adoption strategies to enhance business capabilities.
  • Mentor architects and portfolio triads to improve architectural maturity and methodology across the organization.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field; equivalent experience considered.
  • Advanced degree (preferred).
  • Minimum of ten years of diverse experience in technology, including enterprise architecture, solution design, business analysis, and development.
  • Demonstrated experience leading architectural strategy and execution across complex portfolios or domain disciplines in a corporate environment.
  • Experience in the commercial insurance industry (preferred).
  • Relevant certifications such as TOGAF, SAFe Architect, or GCP (preferred).
  • Proficiency in enterprise architecture frameworks like TOGAF and SAFe Agile methodologies.
  • Proven ability to mentor architects and influence architectural maturity across teams and business units.

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