Program Manager

Short Description

HYBRID - 3 days on-site

Preferred Locations: Purchase, NY → Morristown, NJ → Charlotte, NC.

Alternate Locations : Alpharetta, GA; Chicago, IL; Conshohocken, PA; Denver, CO; Fargo, ND; Garden City, NY; Houston, TX; Lubbock, TX; Mt Juliet, TN; New York, NY; Topeka, KS

ROLE SUMMARY:

Client is seeking a highly experienced Senior Technology & Solution Architect to support strategic technology initiatives across Global Commercial Insurance, Specialty Insurance, and Reinsurance businesses operating in the US, UK, Europe, Singapore, and Australia.

The role will operate across Solution Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, and Technology Planning, serving as the bridge between business strategy and technology delivery. The successful candidate will take a business problem, opportunity, or transformation idea from inception, translate it into a well-defined solution architecture, and develop the associated technology roadmap, dependencies, workstreams, and implementation approach required to initiate a project.

A key expectation is the ability to transform ambiguous business needs into an architecturally sound and executable initiative that can be transitioned to a Project/Program Manager and delivery teams for implementation.

The ideal candidate will combine strong Commercial and Specialty Insurance/Reinsurance domain knowledge with broad enterprise architecture experience and familiarity with platforms such as Guidewire, SAP Insurance/Reinsurance/Finance, VIPR, integration technologies, data platforms, and cloud solutions. Well verse with AI and other productivity tools.

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.

Preferred

Master's degree in Technology, Engineering, Information Systems, or Business Administration.

Relevant architecture certifications such as TOGAF, Azure/AWS Architecture, or equivalent enterprise/solution architecture certifications.

Insurance industry certifications or demonstrated deep experience within Commercial, Specialty, London Market, and Reinsurance environments.

Area(s) of responsibility

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

Business Problem to Solution Architecture

Partner with business and technology stakeholders to understand business problems, strategic objectives, transformation opportunities, and technology needs.

Translate business ideas and requirements into solution architectures and technology options.

Define current-state, transition-state, and target-state architectures, considering applications, integration, data, cloud/infrastructure, security, and operational requirements.

Conduct technology option assessments, including build vs. buy vs. extend vs. integrate, and provide recommendations based on business value, cost, risk, scalability, and strategic alignment.

Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture principles, technology standards, security requirements, and longer-term business strategy.

Project Inception & Architecture-Driven Planning

Take initiatives from problem statement or early-stage concept through project inception and delivery readiness.

Define business and technology scope, major solution components, workstreams, assumptions, constraints, risks, and dependencies.

Translate architecture into actionable project components, milestones, phases, and implementation sequences.

Identify dependencies across applications, APIs/integration, data, infrastructure/cloud, security, vendors, and business teams.

Develop high-level resource, skill, effort, and technology considerations to support business case and project planning.

Produce an architecture/project inception package with sufficient definition for a Project or Program Manager to mobilize and execute the initiative.

Enterprise Architecture & Technology Planning

Contribute to enterprise architecture strategy, standards, reference architectures, and technology roadmaps.

Assess existing application and technology landscapes to identify capability gaps, technical debt, modernization opportunities, application rationalization, and platform consolidation opportunities.

Develop multi-phase technology roadmaps balancing strategic target-state architecture with practical near-term delivery.

Provide architecture governance and design oversight throughout project implementation.

Collaborate with Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects, Engineering Leaders, Product Owners, PMO, delivery teams, vendors, and business stakeholders.

Present architecture recommendations and technology strategies effectively to both senior business executives and technical stakeholders.