Strategic Architect

Strategic Architect

Job ID #: 4641
Location: Worcester, MA
Functional Area: Information Technology SBU: 85600 - Hanover Technology Group
Position Type: Full - Time
Education Required: Bachelors Degree
Experience Required: More than 10 years
Relocation Provided: No

Job Description

The Hanover Insurance Group is seeking a Strategic Architect for our Worcester, MA headquarters.

Delivering on Promises for 160 Years.

Hanover Insurance is a winning company comprised of outstanding professionals focused on a single vision: to be the very best in our business. At The Hanover you will have the opportunity to: Grow Your Career, Love What You Do and Be Valued for Your Contributions.

SUMMARY:

The Strategic Architect is focused on maximizing business outcomes and evolving our systems to a future state, supporting innovative solutions for competitive advantage. The architect must have strong collaboration skills, a deep technical knowledge and experience that will result in a strategic and flexible architectural direction. The Strategic Architect will align closely with a Program CIO.

Responsibilities Include:

- Ensure that the technology objectives of the enterprise are aligned to the business goals
- Communicate complex technical solutions to the business and articulate the cost and impact
- Communicate detailed technical concepts to solution architects, data architects and tech leads
- Evaluate complex business requirements and offer flexible and strategic solutions to meet the business needs
- Document the existing architecture, develop the desired future state, and create roadmaps that chart the course from current to future state
- Align corporate vision and business strategy with cohesive tactical projects and objectives
- Provide leadership and guidance to solution architects, ensuring they are aware of our strategic direction
- Identify opportunities to simplify our technical solutions, providing agile and cost effective solutions
- Provide a strategic risk assessment from both a business and technology perspective
- Remain current with newly emerging industry standards, and understands and can articulate their potential impact to the Enterprise
- Review project artifacts, solution designs, estimates and sizing with Enterprise Architect, CIO and Business Partners
- Promote Hanover capabilities by networking with peers in other companies and actively supporting professional organizations and user groups
- Leverage our current tools and ensure that new tools brought into the organization are aligned to the business need
- Work with Sourcing Partners to evaluate their capabilities and the value they can bring to IT
- Present broad, complex information and concepts in an influential or persuasive way that results in action.

Position Requirements:

- Ten plus years of relevant technical experience
- Minimum Bachelor's degree in related field, specialized training, certification and relevant work experience.
- Enterprise Architecture Frameworks and Governance (TOGAF 9)
- Knowledge of Hanover data and information flows, infrastructure, and Legacy architecture
- Proficient in in core capabilities, including architectural governance, portfolio planning, business enablement and functional management
- Innovative and conceptual thinker
- Strong leadership, communication and collaborative skills, resulting in a closer partnership with the business and IT
- Experience with multiple technologies/Platforms: may include - JAVA, VB6, HTML5, Guidewire, PEGA, Oneshield
- Property and Casualty Insurance knowledge
- Influences without authority using technical expertise and relationships with others in IT and our Business Partners

Apply today and discover:

- Why, in 2010 and 2011, we were recognized by The Boston Globe as a Top Places to Work and by Business Insurance as a Best Places to Work.
- How we continue to grow stronger through acquisitions, increased product offerings and unparalleled credit rating agency upgrades in the industry.
- How we build unique relationships with our Employees, Agent Partners and Customers.

What it's like to work for the best insurance company in the industry!

Benefits To Joining The Hanover Team:

- Competitive Pay and Benefits
- Retirement/401(k) Program
- Beneficiary and Ability Assist Programs
- Travel Assistance Program
- Adoption Benefit
- Wellness Programs
- Matching Education Gifts Plan
- Employee Development/Education Assistance and Professional/Industry Designation Programs
- Generous "Time Off With Pay"

Have you ever considered working Worcester, MA? Worcester is centrally located and affords an easy commute from locations throughout New England. Hanover Insurance is easily accessible off of I-290 from Cities and Communities such as: Lowell, Framingham, Leominster, Attleboro, Franklin, Newton, Milford, Marlborough, Amherst, Springfield and Longmeadow in MA. Hartford, Windsor, Enfield, Manchester, Glastonbury, Colchester, Willimantic and Norwich in CT. Providence, Cranston and Woonsocket in RI and The Nashua area in NH.

The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. (NYSE: THG), based in Worcester, Mass., is the holding company for a group of insurers that includes The Hanover Insurance Company, also based in Worcester, Citizens Insurance Company of America, headquartered in Howell, Michigan, Chaucer Holdings PLC, based in London and their affiliates.

The Hanover offers a wide range of property and casualty products and services to businesses, individuals, and families through a select group of independent agents across the U.S., and has been meeting its obligations to its agent partners and their customers for nearly 160 years. The company is ranked among the top 25 property and casualty insurers in the country and maintains excellent ratings from A.M. Best, Standard & Poor's and Moody's.

EEO Statement

The Hanover Insurance Group provides equal opportunity for employment and promotion to all qualified employees and applicants. No person shall be discriminated against in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other status or condition protected by applicable federal or state statutes. The Company is committed to maintaining an environment in which all employees are treated equitably and given the opportunity to achieve their full potential in the workplace.

The Hanover Insurance Group does not accept unsolicited Agency resumes. The Hanover Insurance Group will not pay fees to any third party agency or firm that does not have a signed "Employment Agency Agreement" already on file with Human Resources - The Office of Talent Management.