Director of Architecture, Global Specialty

The Hartford

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Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Charlotte, NCColumbus, OHHartford, CTChicago, IL
Salary
$163,200–$244,800 / yr
Posted
49 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $249k
This role $204k
$147k most similar roles pay here $316k

This role pays less than 81% of similar roles. Most pay $209,125–$288,737 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $204k versus about $249k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About The Hartford

The Hartford is a leading provider of property and casualty insurance, group benefits, and mutual funds, serving businesses and individuals across the United States. Industry: Insurance & Financial Services

The Hartford currently has 45 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $127,600–$191,400 across 37 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Director of Architecture, Global Specialty

The Director of Architecture - Global Specialty serves as a senior architecture leader within the Global Specialty business. This individual contributor and strategic advisor role focuses on advancing architectural initiatives, developing business-aligned solutions, and ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and target-state roadmaps. The position involves creating business capability maps, managing transformation initiatives, and overseeing governance processes to ensure portfolio sustainability. Key responsibilities include designing application, integration, and information architecture models while evaluating emerging technologies like AI and machine learning. The role requires expertise in cloud-native applications, container orchestration, microservices, API-based integrations using JSON and REST, and DevOps practices including CI/CD. Candidates must possess deep knowledge of insurance industry business processes, such as underwriting and claims, to solve complex problems within the property and casualty insurance domain while navigating both modern and legacy systems.

What you'll do

  • Develop and evolve Global Specialty architecture strategies, roadmaps, and target-state architectures.
  • Translate business objectives into technical requirements and actionable technology roadmaps for product teams.
  • Create business capability maps and value stream artifacts to support strategic planning and investment decisions.
  • Design future-state application, integration, and information architecture models aligned with enterprise standards.
  • Lead architecture governance processes to ensure consistency, simplification, and sustainability of the technology portfolio.
  • Identify architectural risks, technology gaps, and dependencies while recommending mitigation strategies.
  • Serve as a strategic advisor to business and technology leaders to influence high-level decision making.
  • Facilitate architecture workshops and strategy sessions to communicate technical recommendations to diverse audiences.

What we're looking for

  • Must have 10+ years of IT experience designing and implementing enterprise-level solutions across various software frameworks and platforms.
  • Must have demonstrated management experience leading, coaching, and mentoring software architecture and engineering teams.
  • Must possess strong architecture expertise spanning business, contextual, conceptual, logical, and physical levels of thinking.
  • Must have experience designing cloud and modern architectures, including integration frameworks and patterns.
  • Must have experience with Microservices or API-based integrations using JSON and REST.
  • Must have knowledge of cloud/container deployment architectures, building cloud-native applications, and container orchestration systems.
  • Must have understanding of AI, ML, and integrating data science models into real-time operational systems.

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