Vice President - Head of Architecture Services

Tokio Marine HCC (TMHCC) is a leading specialty insurance group with offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, Spain and Ireland, transacting business in approximately 180 countries and underwriting more than 100 classes of specialty insurance. TMHCC products and capabilities set the standard for the industry, and many of the Company’s almost 4,000 employees are industry-leading experts.

The Head of Architecture Services at Tokio Marine HCC is a pivotal role that demands a candidate who is a strategic visionary aligning complex business needs to innovative technology solutions. This person also has exemplary leadership and collaborative skills to work across the enterprise to position our technology and data as a competitive advantage.

Enable Strategic Decisions

Envision, articulate & drive end-to-end integrated solutions for strategic programs typically spanning multiple lines of business, by bridging and integrating disparate Architecture solution-parts supporting their constituent work-streams, including dependencies on other strategic programs

Proactively partner with TMHCC Businesses to: drive outstanding customer experience outcomes; leverage data to make better decisions, faster; and continuing to evolve a best-in-class information security stance

Leverage business/technology capability models and blueprints to integrate and advance the business strategy and technology portfolio strategy, innovating and incorporating evolving industry trends within our risk appetite, in active collaboration with peers & partners across the TMHCC Business, Enterprise Architecture, and Information Technology teams

Provide advice on business, process, and technology evolution by understanding macro-level trends in the industry, our businesses, and technology evolution.

Provide leadership for technical integration patterns and best practices, enabling appropriate design and overseeing the seamless integration of diverse systems and applications across the enterprise.

Facilitate a community of architects across the enterprise to develop archetypes, the common to context capability assessment framework, and reusable patterns.

Pragmatic Communication with a focus on business impacts (ex. top-line growth, ROI, risk, trade-0ff’s)

Facilitate discussions with businesses and technology leaders to understanding commonality in opportunity for optimization of business processes and recommend solutions

Act as an effective liaison/point-of-contact between strategic program execution teams and overall Architecture community, staying tightly integrated with all peers at all times to deliver a holistic horizontal service to drive value

Articulate strategy success-stories & learnings with appropriate context and concrete details, and share with teammates/partners/leadership in a timely manner

Raise timely awareness about any strategy risk/debt proactively, and provide practical & actionable recommendations/enablers to detect/address/prevent them in a sustainable manner, and drive resolution in collaboration with partners

Ensure Reusability

Drive fit-for-purpose, pragmatic technology strategy thru effective partnerships and strong collaboration with the line of business Architects & developers, ensuring strategic alignment, simplification, sharing & reuse common capabilities

Assist TMHCC Businesses in implementing a common framework for integration, leveraging common tools where possible.

Ensure adoption of the defined strategy by reviewing Architecture artifacts, and thru continuous oversight of program execution to minimize variability & rework, ensuring all deliverables are effective in delivering the intended outcomes

Credibility

Jointly own the final outcomes with partners, and track self & partners to that final outcome in a timely manner

Have a deep understanding of modern ways of working (cross-functional teams, agile execution)

Improve the team’s brand presence by finding and/or creating opportunities and means to spread greater awareness of team outputs & practices

Generate ideas and means for optimizing everyday operations and improve sustainability, and share with teammates/partners/leadership

Maintain the application inventory and associated artifacts

Be the voice of the insurance industry and emerging technology trends

Champion adoption of mature open-source technology

Required Skills

Deep expertise and experience in Architecture practice, activities and deliverables

Have a deep understanding of modern ways of working (cross-functional teams, agile execution, product orientation)

Deep experience with application integration

Knowledge of past, present and future insurance business processes

Broad knowledge of the overall technology landscape across all tiers

Ability and willingness to forge strong trusted partnerships across multiple roles (architects, program leads, software & platform engineering leads) transcending organizations/hierarchies & projects in a boundary-less fashion with a spirit of shared goals, success & accountability

Ability and willingness to adopt an open-minded, inclusive approach, actively encouraging diverse thinking during everyday interactions

Decisive thought-leadership thru tangible outcome-based partnerships and a clear sense of direction, purpose, and agility to ensure strategic execution

Ability to demonstrate good attention to detail & overall context, proactively following-up and following-thru toward outcomes

Ability to ensure all communications are contextual, correct, complete, clear, concise, current, consistent, constant and continuous

Ability and aspiration to become, and be perceived, as a business partner and a role-model for the broader organization thru well-refined soft-skills and working-relationships with teammates/partners/clients