Director of Architecture – Global Specialty

The Hartford

Director of Architecture responsible for advancing initiatives within Hartford’s Global Specialty business. Leading architecture efforts and influencing technology direction across the organization.

Posted 7/23/2026full-timeColumbus • Connecticut, Illinois, North Carolina, Ohio • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $163,200 - $244,800 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in enterprise architecture, cloud and microservices design, and strategic technology transformation. Proven ability to lead architecture initiatives, mentor teams, and align technology solutions with business objectives.

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Enterprise ArchitectureCloud ArchitectureMicroservices DesignAgile MethodologiesDevOps Practices

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Hard Skills

Architecture PrinciplesIntegration FrameworksAPI-Based IntegrationsJSONRESTContainer OrchestrationAI IntegrationML IntegrationContinuous IntegrationContinuous Deployment

Soft Skills

LeadershipConflict ResolutionNegotiationCoachingInfluencing

Tools & Technologies

Cloud PlatformsDevelopment ToolsAutomated Testing ToolsCode Analysis ToolsArchitecture Governance Tools

Industry Keywords

Business ArchitectureTechnology TransformationStrategic PlanningInnovation MindsetBehavioral Change Management

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudMicroservices

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Contribute to the development and evolution of Global Specialty architecture strategies, roadmaps, and target-state architectures.
Lead architecture efforts for strategic business and technology transformation initiatives.
Partner with product and technology stakeholders to translate business objectives into architecture outcomes and technology roadmaps.
Assess current-state capabilities and identify opportunities for modernization, simplification, and business enablement.
Evaluate emerging technologies, industry trends, and architecture approaches to support business strategy and innovation objectives.
Develop and maintain business capability maps, value streams, and business architecture artifacts that support strategic planning and investment decisions.
Analyze business processes, organizational capabilities, and technology dependencies to identify opportunities for improvement.
Support capability-based planning and business transformation initiatives across the Global Specialty portfolio.
Establish traceability between business objectives, capabilities, initiatives, and technology solutions.
Develop future-state application, integration, and information architecture models supporting business objectives.
Provide architecture leadership and guidance for strategic programs and initiatives.
Define architecture principles, reference architectures, and solution patterns aligned with Global Specialty and Hartford’s enterprise standards.
Conduct architecture assessments and provide recommendations to improve business and technology alignment.
Collaborate with solution architects, engineering teams, and delivery organizations to ensure architectural consistency across initiatives.
Participate in architecture governance processes, review boards, and technology standards reviews.
Evaluate proposed solutions for alignment with architecture principles, standards, and target-state roadmaps.
Identify architecture risks, technology gaps, and strategic dependencies and recommend mitigation approaches.
Contribute to the development and maintenance of architecture standards, governance processes, and decision frameworks.
Support portfolio planning activities by providing architecture insights and recommendations.
Serve as a trusted architecture advisor to business and technology leaders.
Facilitate architecture workshops, architecture strategy sessions, and solution reviews with stakeholders across the organization.
Communicate architecture recommendations and tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Influence architecture and technology decisions through expertise, collaboration, and strategic thinking.
Build strong partnerships across business, product, data, and technology organizations.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or related discipline.
10+ years of IT experience, demonstrating hands-on experience in designing and implementing robust enterprise level solutions with a broad understanding of traditional and modern software technology frameworks, platforms, vendor software solutions, development tools, and processes.
Demonstrated management experience in leading software architecture and engineering teams; ability to coach and mentor architecture resources and effectively manage and shape team and individual behaviors.
Strong architecture experience and background; can combine business, contextual, conceptual, logical, and physical levels of thinking.
Experience in designing and implementing cloud and modern architectures including a strong knowledge of Integration frameworks and patterns.
Experience designing and implementing Microservices or API-based integrations with clear understanding of JSON, REST, etc.
Clear understanding of cloud and container deployment architectures including building cloud-native applications and container orchestration systems.
Understanding of AI, ML and integrating data science models real-time into operational systems
Experienced working with agile development teams, methodologies and toolsets with alignment to architecture practices.
Experience with DevOps practices including but not limited to continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) concepts and tools; familiarity with automated testing and code analysis tools.
Experience with developing reusable assets such as prototypes, solution designs, documentation and other materials that contribute to department and organization effectiveness and efficiency.
Has an Innovation and Continuous improvement mindset with a strong desire to stay on top of business and IT trends.
Strong leadership and influencing skills at the senior management level.
Strong conflict resolution and negotiation skills along with behavioral change management experience.
Candidate must be authorized to work in the US without company sponsorship.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Other rewards may include short-term or annual bonuses
long-term incentives
on-the-spot recognition