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Director, Architecture & Innovation

Portland, Maine

The Director, Architecture and Innovation is responsible for leading the development of scalable, resilient enterprise architectures and driving innovation through emerging technologies, particularly Artificial Intelligence (AI). This role is essential in transforming business strategies into actionable architectural solutions and leveraging DevOps best practices to create a seamless delivery pipeline. The Director will be responsible for creating and maintaining the organization’s enterprise business and application roadmaps while ensuring alignment with business goals, ethical AI practices, and a culture of continuous improvement.

  • Understand business drivers, capabilities, and value-streams to translate them into enterprise system designs and requirements that drive targeted business outcomes.
  • Analyze emerging technology trends, including AI, and evaluate how they can be practically applied to enable evolving business models and operating strategies.
  • Translate both business and technical requirements into architectural blueprints to achieve organizational objectives, documenting all solution architecture design and analysis work.
  • Conduct competitive analysis and market trend assessments to determine the potential impact on the enterprise.
  • Lead the evaluation, design, and analysis for the implementation of solutions architecture across business applications, technologies, and systems based on enterprise business strategies and standards.
  • Lead the development of architectural designs that guide the creation of products, services, systems, and technologies, ensuring alignment with business needs. This includes creating reference architectures, focusing on decision points, design principles, and system dependencies.
  • Analyze the business-IT environment to detect deficiencies, legacy challenges, and technical debt, recommending improvements for systems of record, differentiation, and innovation.
  • Define and enforce principles, guidelines, standards, and patterns for solution decisions that align with the enterprise’s future-state architecture vision.
  • Collaborate on evaluating and selecting software products and services to create a standard and custom software configuration.
  • Develop and maintain a roadmap for the evolution of the enterprise application portfolio, transitioning from current to future state.
  • Monitor the solution portfolio to identify deficiencies, including aging technology or misalignment with business requirements.
  • Partner with the Project Management Office (PMO) to ensure the alignment of project execution with business goals throughout the lifecycle.
  • Provide consulting support to application teams, ensuring all products and projects adhere to the overall enterprise architecture.
  • Promote and implement DevOps practices for continuous integration, continuous delivery (CI/CD), testing, and monitoring of systems and applications. Integrate these principles into architecture to foster a culture of agility, collaboration, and continuous improvement

Requirements: 

  • A minimum of 10 years of experience in IT solution development, including technical or infrastructure architecture, application development, middleware, cloud development, and/or enterprise architecture.
  • Insurance industry experience, preferably workers’ compensation is a plus.
  • Strong experience with enterprise application development and architecture, including AI, cloud, DevOps, and emerging technologies.
  • Solid understanding of strategic business goals and the ability to translate them into technical solutions.
  • Expertise in creating and managing architectural roadmaps, strategy development, and portfolio management.
  • Strong understanding of new and emerging technology trends, particularly in AI, cloud computing, and digital transformation.
  • Deep knowledge of DevOps best practices and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Ability to influence and guide business and technical stakeholders in decision-making.
  • Strong communication skills to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
  • Ability to view both the long-term "big picture" and short-term perspectives of business and technical challenges.
  • Excellent problem-solving and analytical thinking to address complex business needs.
  • High attention to detail, organizational skills, and ability to prioritize effectively.

Our comprehensive benefits package includes all traditional offerings such as:

  • Health Insurance options, Dental Insurance options and Vision Insurance
  • Employee Life Insurance/AD&D and Dependent Life Insurance options
  • Short-term & Long-term Disability
  • Health Savings Account with potential employer match
  • Flexible Medical and Dependent Care Account
  • Accident Insurance
  • Critical Illness Insurance
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Legal/Identify Theft Insurance options
  • Long Term Care Insurance
  • Pet Insurance
  • 401 (k) Retirement Plan with match up to 5%, plus profit sharing & discretionary contributions (subject to vesting)
  • 5 weeks of Paid Time Off (PTO)
  • 11 paid holidays

We also offer other benefits to help foster a healthy, balance lifestyle such as:

  • Flextime schedules
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Student loan paydown and refinancing assistance
  • Educational assistance for job related courses, seminars, certifications or degrees
  • One paid day every year to volunteer for your non-profit of choice
  • On-site fitness center (Maine only) or fitness reimbursement
  • Subsidized parking
  • Sit-Stand desks & daily stretch breaks

 

 

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