Salary
💰 $108,000 - $162,000 per year
About the role
- Join The Hartford as a Business Architect supporting Claims and Operations IT (Digital Enablement shared services)
- Conceptualize and design innovative end-to-end processes and solutions that enable strategic business objectives
- Work closely with business strategy organizations, business operations, technology colleagues, product owners and product managers to evolve Claims and Operations products and solutions
- Lead, build, manage, and enhance business capability models and maturity assessments
- Align strategic objectives with requirements and translate objectives into delivery-focused initiatives
- Partner with business, IT and operations to assess product value, vendor products, dependencies, and prerequisites
- Develop and maintain business architectural direction, roadmaps, process maps and visuals to direct the technology roadmap
- Facilitate capability and feature prioritization through lean business cases, cost/benefit analysis, and option analysis
- Drive feature/capability side of RFIs and RFPs and operate as a bridge between business teams and Architecture team
Requirements
- 10+ years of IT Business Architecture experience, including strong understanding of business, operations, & technology alignment
- 5+ years demonstrated experience with strategic business thinking with strong abilities in relationship management
- Experience with Agile Development Lifecycle required – particularly in frameworks such as Scaled Agile, Scrum, Kanban, XP, etc.
- Strong knowledge of business architecture concepts, emerging trends, and best practices
- Solid industry and specific line of business knowledge and ability to understand competitor or future competitor's strategies and product roadmaps strongly preferred
- Demonstrated ability to develop and articulate business innovation vision and roadmaps
- Proven ability to build commitment and empower others, communicate with clarity, courage, and timeliness
- Strong knowledge of software development processes and procedures to understand team needs includes fundamentals of iterative and incremental development
- Influencing, negotiating and decision-making skills, strong interpersonal and communication skills, strategic thinking and strong leadership skills
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
- Strong written and verbal communication, presentation, and technical writing skills with ability to effectively communicate solution recommendations and influence key stakeholders
- Candidate must be authorized to work in the US without company sponsorship; company will not support the STEM OPT I-983 Training Plan endorsement for this position