Chief Enterprise Architect
Job Description
Job Description
Title: Chief Enterprise Architect
Location: Farmington, MI
Employment Type: Direct Hire
Salary: $180,000 – $200,000
Note: This position is a direct hire on W2, and is NOT open to C2C.
Position Overview
We are seeking a senior-level Enterprise Application & Digital Architecture Leader to provide strategic architectural leadership across modern applications, integration, and digital platforms. This role will define and advance enterprise architecture aligned to business strategy, customer experience, and long-term modernization goals.
The ideal candidate will lead enterprise-wide architecture across core insurance functions and digital engagement platforms, ensuring systems are modular, API-enabled, scalable, cloud-capable, secure, and designed for reuse. This role plays a critical part in accelerating speed-to-market, enhancing stakeholder experience, and enabling digital transformation across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
Enterprise Architecture Leadership
- Design, document, and maintain a cohesive enterprise application and solution architecture.
- Lead modernization strategies across underwriting, claims, policy administration, billing, analytics, and digital engagement platforms.
- Define and implement architectural standards including microservices, APIs, event-driven architecture, domain-driven design, and cloud-native patterns.
- Establish and evolve an enterprise technology roadmap aligned to strategic business objectives.
Digital & Integration Strategy
- Architect scalable digital platforms supporting customer, agent, and broker channels.
- Guide application rationalization, modernization, reuse, and integration strategies.
- Resolve complex cross-domain challenges involving APIs, integrations, workflow, data flow, and platform interoperability.
- Ensure architecture supports security, compliance, and cybersecurity best practices.
Leadership & Talent Development
- Lead and develop domain architects across application, integration, digital, data, and cloud domains.
- Build strong talent pipelines and succession strategies.
- Foster cross-functional collaboration across business, product, and technology teams.
Business Alignment & Influence
- Translate business strategy into scalable technical solutions.
- Influence senior leadership by articulating the business value of architectural decisions.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption paths aligned with measurable business outcomes.
- Create and socialize a clear architectural vision supporting modernization and digital growth.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- 15+ years of experience designing complex enterprise application or digital solutions.
- 5+ years of experience in an Enterprise Architect or Solution Architect capacity.
- 3+ years of leadership experience managing architects or senior technical professionals.
- Demonstrated success leading cross-functional architecture initiatives.
- Insurance industry experience required, including knowledge of: Underwriting, Claims, Policy Administration, Billing, Distribution, & Digital customer or agent platforms.
Technical Expertise
- Modern application frameworks and development platforms
- API and integration patterns
- Event-driven and microservices architecture
- Cloud services and cloud-native design
- Data pipelines and enterprise data architecture
- Hands-on knowledge of: Agile methodologies, DevOps and CI/CD, Iterative delivery models.
- Strong understanding of digital transformation trends and modernization strategies.
Leadership & Professional Skills
- Exceptional communication skills, able to articulate architectural decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to influence and align senior leadership.
- Strong strategic thinking balanced with practical execution.
- Proven ability to build trust and collaborate across business and technology domains.
- Visionary mindset with a focus on measurable outcomes and long-term scalability.