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Senior Architect - API
135,700 - 223,900 USD
The Travelers Companies, Inc.
Tower Square 1, Hartford
135,700 - 223,900 USD
Requirements
Must:
- Bachelor's degree in a technology-related field or equivalent with 6+ years of API architecture experience.
- Proficient in REST, GraphQL, and gRPC.
- Experienced with API management platforms (Apigee, MuleSoft, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management, Kong).
- Knowledgeable in OAuth, JWT, API keys, and SAML.
- Skilled in API design and documentation tools (Stoplight, Swagger/OpenAPI, Postman, RAML).
- Proficient with API performance monitoring tools (New Relic, Datadog, Prometheus).
- Experienced in integrating APIs with SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Familiar with API testing tools (Postman, SoapUI, Junit).
- Understanding of event-driven API architecture.
- Established strategic technology direction and architecture vision.
- Developed technology roadmaps aligned with business goals.
- Executed cloud-native migration and API strategy.
- Deep experience with AWS, APIs, accelerators, and DevSecOps.
- Cloud Architecture Certification (AWS, GCP, Azure) or strong cloud architecture experience.
- Good understanding of security and large-scale platforms.
- Experience in agile operating models and insurance technology.
- Proficient with Git.
- Familiar with DevOps practices and tools.
- Hands-on experience with cloud data technologies.
Responsibilities
As a Senior Architect supporting Claim, I will collaborate with Technology and Business leaders and apply my knowledge of modern technology to influence and innovate solutions that impact the business. In this role, I will:
- Lead the design and implementation of robust, scalable, and secure APIs, ensuring they meet business requirements and industry standards.
- Establish and enforce API standards, best practices, and governance policies to ensure consistency, security, and performance across all API implementations.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams, fostering a collaborative environment and ensuring high-quality API solutions.
- Monitor and optimize API performance, scalability, and security, implementing measures to protect against vulnerabilities and ensure compliance with relevant regulations.
- Collaborate with Claim and technology leadership to develop architecture priorities and direction to enable business imperatives.
- Advocate for modern architecture principles and technology modernization.
- Drive continuous technology transformation to reduce technical debt.
- Partner with engineering to align skills with technology direction and execute proof of technologies.
- Analyze industry and technology trends to leverage advancements.
- Lead and define technology proof of concepts to validate architecture solutions.
- Engage in hands-on prototyping of new technology solutions.
- Define target state technology architecture and roadmaps.
- Align IT initiatives with the target state architecture.
- Communicate architectural direction and its alignment with enterprise strategy.
- Optimize talent strategy to ensure appropriate balance of resources.
- Continuously improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the architecture.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Description
At Travelers, we pride ourselves on taking care of our customers, communities, and each other. This commitment has helped us maintain our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 160 years. We invite you to join us and discover a culture rooted in innovation and thriving on collaboration.
Our compensation package reflects our dedication to our employees. The annual base salary range for this position is $135,700.00 to $223,900.00, depending on various factors such as experience and location. In addition to competitive salaries, our comprehensive benefits program includes performance-based cash incentives, health insurance, a robust retirement plan, paid time off, mental health resources, and volunteer encouragement programs.
We are an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees feel they belong. If you have any questions about the physical requirements of this role, we invite you to reach out to us. Join us in transforming our business and accelerating your career at Travelers!
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