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Do you want to shape the future of AI architecture at one of the world's leading re/insurers? If so, this is your opportunity to make a lasting impact.\nAbout the Role\nSwiss Re is looking for a Senior Enterprise Architect to join our Group Enterprise Architecture function. In this high-impact individual contributor role, you will lead the design and governance of AI architectures across complex, cross-domain transformation initiatives - helping Swiss Reharness AI consistently, responsibly, and at scale. Whether your focus is on delivery (bringing AI solutions to life) or enablement & governance (setting the standards and guardrails that make AI trustworthy), you will be a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders and a driving force behind Swiss Re's AI ambitions.\nKey Responsibilities:\nShape AI strategy and target architectures - Lead engagement with business areas and Domains to define AI use cases, transformation roadmaps, blueprints, and transition plans that align with Swiss Re's strategic direction\nDesign end-to-end AI solution architectures - Architect across business, application, data, model, integration, security, evaluation, observability, and production deployment dimensions\nDrive standardization and reuse - Champion simplification, reusable patterns, and long-term sustainability, including rigorous build-versus-buy and platform assessments across value, risk, scalability, and total cost of ownership\nLead architecture delivery on complex programmes - Take architecture accountability from strategy and concept through implementation, production readiness, and operational ownership\nEnsure alignment with enterprise guardrails - Challenge design decisions to protect architectural integrity, measurable business value, and sustainable delivery outcomes\nDefine and evolve AI standards and reference architectures - Own and develop principles, reusable patterns, methods, and pragmatic guardrails that enable teams to make consistent, safe, and scalable decisions\nLead AI architecture governance - Shape Design Authority processes, review criteria, quality assurance, and compliance mechanisms, ensuring Responsible AI, privacy, security, and regulatory considerations are addressed\nGenerate portfolio-level insight - Govern the AI inventory to identify patterns, gaps, reuse opportunities, and enterprise-wide architecture risks\nCollaborate and influence across domains - Work closely with Domain Architects, business stakeholders, technology teams, and risk partners to achieve enterprise alignment and resolve cross-domain dependencies\nMentor and inspire - Contribute to the architecture community through knowledge sharing, coaching, and raising architecture quality across the organization\nAbout the Team\nThe Group Enterprise Architecture team at Swiss Re sits at the heart of the company's technology and business transformation. The team is structured around two complementary capabilities: Delivery - focused on driving sustainable AI and technology value through complex programmes - and Enablement & Governance - focused on enabling AI consistently, safely, and at enterprise scale through standards, intelligence, and oversight. Together, these teams form one unified Enterprise Architecture capability, working hand-in-hand to ensure Swiss Re's architecture is coherent, future-ready, and aligned with its global ambitions. You will be part of a collaborative, high-caliber community of architects who are passionate about shaping the future of re/insurance through technology.\nAbout You\nYou are a strategic thinker and a pragmatic doer - someone who can hold the long-term architectural vision while navigating the realities of complex, global organizations. You bring deep AI architecture expertise, a collaborative mindset, and communication skills to influence at the most senior levels. You are comfortable with ambiguity, energized by complexity, and committed to responsible, high-quality outcomes.\nWe are looking for candidates who meet these requirements:\nPrevious experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, technology architecture, or transformation roles within complex, matrixed, or global organizations\nHands-on experience designing and implementing production-grade AI solutions -including LLMs, RAG, embeddings/vector search, agents and tool use, model selection, prompt and model lifecycle management, and AI evaluation - beyond prompt-only approaches\nProven expertise in MLOps/LLMOps, AI security and privacy patterns, observability, model monitoring, Responsible AI controls, and production readiness\nDemonstrated leadership in defining and governing target architectures for complex, cross-domain transformation initiatives, including experience with enterprise architecture frameworks, governance models, and design authority processes\nStrong stakeholder influencing skills - with a track record of advising senior business and technology leaders and shaping enterprise-level investment and transformation decisions\nThese are additional nice to haves:\nTOGAF or equivalent enterprise architecture certification\nRelevant certifications in AI, cloud, data, security, or architecture\nExperience using architecture inventories and repositories to generate portfolio insights, identify reuse opportunities, and support governance\nAbility to evaluate AI technology choices across quality, risk, scalability, latency, resilience, and cost - and communicate trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences\nExperience mentoring architects and contributing to architecture community development\nFor Slovakia the base salary range for this position is between EUR 3,400 and EUR 5,700 per month (for a full-time role). The specific salary offered considers:\nthe requirements, scope, complexity and responsibilities of the role, \nthe applicant’s own profile including education/qualifications, expertise, specialisation, skills and experience.\nIn addition to your base salary, Swiss Re offers an attractive performance-based variable compensation component, designed to recognise your achievements. Further you will enjoy a variety of global and location specific benefits.\nEligibility may vary depending on the terms of Swiss Re policies and your employment contract.\nAbout Swiss Re\nSwiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 15,000 employees across the world.\nOur success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.\nIf you are an experienced professional returning to the workforce after a career break, we encourage you to apply for open positions that match your skills and experience.\nWe may use AI-powered tools to support the review and evaluation of applications for this position. 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