Enterprise Architect

Welcome to Gallagher - a global leader in insurance, risk management, and consulting services. With a growing team of more than 45,000 professionals worldwide, we empower businesses, communities, and individuals to thrive. At Gallagher, you can build a career whether it's with our brokerage division, our benefits and HR consulting division, or our corporate team. Experience The Gallagher Way, a culture fueled by shared values and a collective passion for excellence. Join one of our dynamic teams, where you'll play a pivotal role in shaping Gallagher's future and unlocking unparalleled opportunities for both clients and yourself.

We believe that every candidate brings something special to the table, including you! So, even if you feel that you're close but not an exact match, we encourage you to apply.

Overview

If you are passionate about helping to transform a leading global enterprise to modernize platforms, improve processes, and cut costs. We are looking for an enterprise architect who can work with senior stakeholders, architects, business analysts, and developers to create and implement holistic solutions that address complex business problems and opportunities.

The Enterprise Architect role will work in our corporate division in direct collaboration with our divisional partners to promote a global perspective of the firm through information sharing and collaboration. You will also contribute to the further development of our Enterprise Architecture program to enrich technology decision making across the entire firm.

How you'll make an impact

• Aligning technology with the organization's business objectives and plans.

• Understanding the organization's business processes and identifying areas where technology can increase productivity, quality, and efficiency.

• Evaluating the organization's current technology systems to find areas for improvement, such as performance, scalability, security, and cost-efficiency.

• Creating a technology roadmap that shows the steps needed to reach the desired state, including suggestions for new technology solutions, upgrades, and changes to business workflows.

• Ensuring that technology solutions are scalable, secure, and cost-efficient by comparing different options and choosing those that meet the organization's needs.

• Working with various stakeholders, including business leaders, architects, IT teams, vendors, and customers, to understand their needs and issues and create solutions that meet their expectations.

• Managing the execution of technology projects, providing technical knowledge, and supporting project managers to ensure projects are finished on time and within budget.

• Tracking progress, making changes as needed, and managing project execution for successful results.

• Collaborating with business leaders and architects to create enterprise and divisional capability maps, as well as roadmaps to align business transformations with divisional and firm goals and objectives.

• Finding opportunities to unify solutions that have the same functions across divisions and/or regions.

• Keeping a deep knowledge of both technology and business workflows, including business strategy, structure, operations, and technology.

• Ensuring scalable, efficient, and cost-effective business solutions.

About You

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

• 7+ years of progressive experience as a senior architect or technical lead in large insurance IT organizations spanning multiple enterprise systems.

• In-depth knowledge of regional and local regulatory requirements with a global perspective.

• Strong expertise in system design, integration, and architecture best practices.

• Familiarity with insurance data management, privacy, and security considerations.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams.

• In-depth knowledge of Microsoft 365 platforms, Azure, Ping, and accompanying technologies

• Expertise in cloud services, Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Data as a Service (DaaS), microservices, and API's

• Strong aptitude for conflict resolution, problem solving, strategic planning and evaluation, and financial/ROI analysis.

• Strong and deep technical expertise across applications, data, infrastructure, and integrations as well as strong domain knowledge on what is "best in class" digital experience for Enterprise products.

• An inquisitive mind, endless curiosity, and passion for learning about technologies, industries, and new approaches to doing things.

• Exceptional decision-making skills and the ability to navigate ambiguity and complexity while driving positive change and achieving tangible results.

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Compensation and benefits

On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.

Below are the minimum core benefits you'll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

• Medical/dental/vision plans, which start from day one!

• Life and accident insurance

• 401(K) and Roth options

• Tax-advantaged accounts (HSA, FSA)

• Educational expense reimbursement

• Paid parental leave

Other benefits include:

• Digital mental health services (Talkspace)

• Flexible work hours (availability varies by office and job function)

• Training programs

• Gallagher Thrive program - elevating your health through challenges, workshops and digital fitness programs for your overall wellbeing

• Charitable matching gift program

• And more...

We value inclusion and diversity

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Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it's embedded into the fabric of our organization. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.

Gallagher embraces our employees' diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as "protected characteristics") by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.