Director, Bond and Specialty Insurance Architecture

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Who Are We? Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That's the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 170 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it. Job Category Technology Compensation Overview The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards. Salary Range $139,400.00 - $230,000.00 Target Openings 1 What Is the Opportunity? Travelers is seeking a Director in Bond & Specialty Insurance, Architecture to join our organization as we grow and transform our Enterprise Technology Solutions organization. Every business line in Bond & Specialty Insurance depends on shared platforms: the portals underwriters use daily, the Salesforce ecosystem brokers interact with, the document systems that generate policyholder communications, the payment and billing infrastructure that processes premium. These cross-domain capabilities connect a technology portfolio across Management Liability, Surety, Claim, and Specialty Cyber, and we need an architecture leader who can see across all of them. We're looking for a hands-on architecture leader to run BSI's Cross-Domain function. You'll lead a small team of architects while personally driving architecture for our highest-impact shared initiatives, including a major Experience Management transformation and the integration of AI-enabled capabilities into cross-cutting business workflows. You'll report to the Vice President, Chief Architect, and serve as the architecture bridge between the technology domain teams, enterprise platform organizations, and business stakeholders who depend on these shared capabilities daily. Success in this role requires balancing deep architectural expertise in cloud-native technologies, APIs, AI/ML, and emerging platforms with the business acumen to align to business objectives The ideal candidate orchestrates the technical strategy that empowers development teams - defining target states, creating technology roadmaps, and establishing architectural frameworks that accelerate innovation while maintaining standards and governance. As a leader, you will provide visionary leadership that inspires architectural excellence while mentoring talent and fostering collaboration. Success requires balancing deep architectural expertise with business acumen while creating an environment where teams feel empowered to innovate and deliver architectural solutions that advance Travelers' digital transformation initiatives. What Will You Do? Scope: Responsible for leading the Cross-Domain architecture team within Bond & Specialty Insurance, spanning shared platforms and integration capabilities that serve multiple business lines and align with enterprise technology divisions. Technical Execution: Define target state technology architecture and roadmaps. Serve as primary architecture liaison to Prod & Tech Value Stream and Customer Value Stream leadership, representing cross-domain architecture interests across Bond & Specialty Insurance. Drive cross-domain architecture decisions that affect multiple business lines, ensuring integration points and shared platforms maintain architectural coherence. Coordinate cross-cutting functional contributors who serve cross-domain needs from other reporting lines, including architecture alignment to the Enterprise for Sales, Marketing, and Service, ECM, Cloud and Infrastructure concerns. Ensure alignment of initiatives to target state, enterprise standards and business objectives. Identify opportunities to capitalize on technology advances through analysis of key industry and technology trends to assess potential impact on the enterprise. Champion adoption of Agentic AI/ML, cloud-native, and event-driven architecture patterns across cross-domain capabilities. Define and lead technology proof of concepts to ensure feasibility of new technology architecture solutions. Drive continuous technology modernization, including to minimize technical debt. Strategic Accountability: Collaborate with Technology and Business leadership to develop architecture priorities and direction to enable business imperatives. Optimize talent strategy to ensure proper mix of resources. Proactively attract, develop, engage and retain high performing talent. Set clear goals, provide ongoing feedback and hold talent accountable. Promptly