Chief Enterprise Architect

Job Description

Job Description

Job Summary

We are seeking a visionary Chief Enterprise Architect to lead the development of enterprise‐wide architectural strategy. This leader will design and guide technical architecture that aligns tightly with business strategy, ensuring technology investments directly support organizational priorities and long-term growth. The role will be hybrid, based onsite in our Farmington Hills office.

Essential Tasks / Major Duties

• Lead and develop domain architects with a focus on application, integration, and digital expertise, ensuring strong talent, succession planning, and alignment with strategic objectives.
• Provide technical leadership across domains including application architecture, integration, data, digital products, security, and cloud.
• Design, document, and maintain the enterprise application and solution architecture, ensuring cohesive alignment across core business functions and customer-facing platforms.
• Ensure business and technology strategies remain aligned with the operating model and future-state digital aspirations.
• Define modern architectural standards and patterns (microservices, APIs, event-driven architecture, cloud-native design, domain-driven design) while maintaining a strong cybersecurity posture.
• Create and communicate a clear architectural vision enabling business growth, modernization, and superior customer experiences.
• Collaborate with business leaders, product teams, and technology partners to translate business needs into scalable, high-performing application and digital solutions.
• Maintain deep knowledge of the existing application and data landscape, guiding modernization, reuse, rationalization, and integration strategies.
• Research and evaluate emerging application technologies, development frameworks, cloud services, and digital experience platforms relevant to business transformation.
• Influence senior leadership by articulating the business value of architectural decisions and securing alignment and investment for modernization initiatives.
• Develop and maintain a solution landscape that supports speed-to-market, reusability, interoperability, and adoption of modern engineering practices.
• Resolve complex cross-domain application challenges—including integration, APIs, workflow, data flow, and platform interoperability.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 15 years of experience designing complex application or digital solutions, including at least 5 years as an enterprise or solution architect.
• 3 years of leadership experience.
• Proven success leading and developing architects and influencing through cross-functional collaboration.
• Insurance industry experience is required, with strong understanding of underwriting, claims, policy administration, billing, distribution, or digital customer/agent interactions.
• Demonstrated expertise architecting customer-facing and business-facing digital applications, platforms, and integrations.
• Strong experience with modern development platforms, application frameworks, integration patterns, API platforms, cloud services, and data pipelines.
• Hands-on experience across multiple SDLC methodologies including Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, and iterative delivery models.
• Ability to evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption paths aligned to business value.
• Ability to build trust and lead collaboratively with business, product, and technology teams.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate architectural decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Deep knowledge of modern architecture trends enabling modernization, digital transformation, and competitive differentiation.