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Job Title Principal Architect, Modernization, Tech Debt & Lifecycle Management - Remote

Requisition Number R6046 Principal Architect, Modernization, Tech Debt & Lifecycle Management - Remote (Open)

Location Arizona - Home Teleworkers

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Job Information

CSAA Insurance Group (CSAA IG), a AAA insurer, is one of the top personal lines property and casualty insurance groups in the U.S. Our employees proudly live our core beliefs and fulfill our enduring purpose to help members prevent, prepare for and recover from life\'s uncertainties, and we\'re proud of the culture we create together. As we commit to progress over perfection, we recognize that every day is an opportunity to be innovative and adaptable. At CSAA IG, we hire good people for a brighter tomorrow. We are actively hiring for an Architect, Modernization, Tech Debt and Lifecycle Management. Join us and support CSAA IG in achieving our goals.

Your Role:

The Principal Enterprise Architect serves as a member of the CTO office or a senior staff within each of the individual business or technology domains within IT. They will play a key role in defining, planning, and realizing the enterprise technology vision aligned with the business and IT strategy. Responsibilities include researching, analyzing, designing, proposing, and delivering business solutions that are appropriate for the corporate, business and technology strategies.

A small team will sit with the CTO and will work multi-functional with value stream architects, business owners and product owners to drive strategy and architecture and plan for:

• Tech modernization
• Tech Debt
• Lifecycle Management
• SaaS Management
• Contracts, roadmaps, and product comparison/selection

Alignment on definitions and where work is performed:

• Internal Developer Platform (IDP) = Platform Engineering
• Technology Lifecycle Management
• Tech Debt
• Tech Modernization

Your work:

• Facilitating designs and building solutions across the enterprise, with a focus on evolving our technical capabilities in support of delivering business capabilities. Solutions are built in a highly collaborative environment, partnering with engineering, product, and program leaders
• Leads and provides direction to Application Integration, Data, and Platform architecture vision for the enterprise
• Works on the most sophisticated projects and supplies to the overall strategic vision of the organization
• Integrates a broad range of ideas regarding technical and solution architecture, while developing strategies for migration toward the cloud architectural vision
• Partners with business leaders to provide expert technical advice and influence strategic decision making
• Assess industry trends and appropriately position their subject areas
• Provides thought leadership, build strategies and make recommendations on a wide variety of sophisticated issues having a significant and strategic impact on processes and the business
• Crafts, guides, and partners with other architects in crafting and maintaining roadmaps that connect business strategies to capabilities and provide a milestone-view of the cadence needed to move from current state to future state
• Delivers a clear, pragmatic, approach with applicability to meet immediate business needs
• Demonstrates a strong ability to learn new information and systems quickly, works successfully in a highly matrixed organization
• Effectively handle priorities, deliverables and timelines with little need for partner concern
• Demonstrates a strong bias for architecture principles balanced with tactical schedules, cost, and risks
• Leverage the appropriate mix of in-house and outsourced resources to protect intellectual property
• Drives the technology roadmap for CSAA including prioritization and cost estimates
• Strong inter-personal skills capable of effectively interacting and influencing executive team leaders

Required Experience, Education and Skills

• 15+ proven experience with building scalable, multi-tier distributed cloud-native application architectures
• Experience crafting APIs, integrations with external systems including 3rd parties
• Experience with one of the 3 cloud providers - AWS, Azure or GCP
• Experience designing systems that has messaging characteristics
• Experience designing systems that take advantage of both SQL and NoSQL. databases
• Good understanding of front-end UI frameworks like ReactJS. Mobile app development is a strong plus
• Experience with crafting secure systems using cyber security standard methodologies
• Good written and verbal communication skills to help interface with other teams
• Ability to lead engineers and architects
• Bachelor\'s degree in related area (Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field) or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• 15+ years Systems development and business experience designing solutions for multiple types of systems, client users and/or units across an organization
• 5+ years technical experience in a specific domain for design, development and deployments
• Experience in a significant business domain such as CRM, Marketing, Insurance/Claims or Financial systems

What would make us excited about you?

• Actively crafts our company culture (e.g., supporting employee resource groups, mentoring employees, volunteering, joining multi-functional projects)
• Champions our cultural norms (e.g., willing to have cameras when it matters: helping onboard new team members, establishing relationships, etc.)
• Demonstrates a company ownership attitude, thinking beyond boundaries of their own area
• Travels as needed for role, including divisional / team meetings and other in-person meetings
• Fulfills business needs, which may include investing extra time, helping other teams, etc

CSAA IG Careers

At CSAA IG, we\xe2\x80\x99re proudly devoted to protecting our customers, our employees, our communities, and the world at large. We are on a climate journey to continue to do better for our people, our business, and our planet. Taking bold action and leading by example. We are citizens for a changing world, and we continually change to meet it.

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• BELIEVE in a mission focused on building a community of service, rooted in inclusion and belonging.
• COMMIT to being there for our customers and employees.
• CREATE a sense of purpose that serves the greater good through innovation.

Recognition: We offer a total compensation package, performance bonus, 401(k) with a company match, and so much more! Read more about what we offer and what it is like to be a part of our dynamic team at

In most cases, you will have the opportunity to choose your preferred working location from the following options when you join CSAA IG: remote, hybrid, or in-person. Submit your application to be considered. We communicate via email, so check your inbox and/or your spam folder to ensure you don\xe2\x80\x99t miss important updates from us. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact .

As part of our values, we are committed to supporting inclusion and diversity at CSAA IG. We actively celebrate colleagues\xe2\x80\x99 different abilities, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and gender. Everyone is welcome and supported in their development at all stages in their journey with us.

We are always recruiting, retaining, and promoting a diverse mix of colleagues who are representative of the U.S. workforce. The diversity of our team fosters a broad range of ideas and enables us to design and deliver a wide array of products to meet customers\xe2\x80\x99 evolving needs.

CSAA Insurance Group is an equal opportunity employer.

The national average salary range for this position is $183,870 - $204,300. However, we have a location-based compensation structure. Our salary ranges vary and are calculated based on county of residence. The full salary range for this position across all the states we hire in is $165,600 - $245,100. This role also includes an opportunity for a company-wide annual discretionary bonus, through our Annual Incentive Plan (AIP), of up to 15% of eligible pay.

If you apply and are selected to continue in the recruiting process, we will schedule a preliminary call with you to discuss the role and will disclose during that call the available salary/hourly rate range based on your location. Factors used to determine the actual salary offered may include location, experience, or education.

Please note we are hiring for this role remote anywhere in the United States with the following exceptions: Hawaii, Alaska and California. California exception does not apply to existing CA employees.

Must have authorization to work indefinitely in the US.

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