Director - EDS Platform Solution Architecture
Dir Data Engineering - GE06AEWe re determined to make a difference and are proud to be an insurance company that goes well beyond coverages and policies.
Working here means having every opportunity to achieve your goals and to help others accomplish theirs, too.
Join our team as we help shape the future.
The Director, Platform Solution Architecture on the Enterprise Data Services Platform team is considered a senior leader for the data platform solution architecture team.
This leader is responsible leading a team of highly skilled data, software and cloud engineers designing scalable, secure, resilient data platforms, recommending and selecting data platform services, tools and associated architectures.
The ideal candidate is an experienced people leader leading teams in data, cloud or software engineering.
This director must be able to partner across leadership, including executives and lines of business technology teams and lead the Platform Solution Architecture team translating business requirements to platform design.
Job DescriptionLead our Enterprise Data Platform Solution Architecture team, supporting internal customers leveraging data platform services, from idea generation through platform design including analysis, design, cost benefit, prototyping and hand over to platform engineering for implementation.
Lead the team defining platform delivery standards, enforce operational excellence on delivery.
Standardize methodologies, tools and systems for efficiency and effectiveness across all portfolios.
This team also champion orchestration, automation and maintenance of our platform services in accordance with our EDS platform strategy.
Guide, architect and orchestrate immutable infrastructure that leverages programmable infrastructure, as code, and operationalize appropriate configuration management tools.
Establish data platform chargeback, forecasting and budgeting processes to efficiently drive cloud financial management.
Partner with lines of businesses to help them realize and optimize expenditure on data platforms.
Responsible for developing and enforcing data platform governance, architecture, operating procedures, monitoring and system standards.
Provides technical and team leadership for the Platform Solution Architecture Team, including coaching, recruiting, mentoring and setting appropriate expectations and goals.
Leads workload and workforce management and optimization activities of a team of cloud engineers, data engineers and software engineers.
Directly involved in capital budgeting, project and program planning and establishing strategic and annual plans for both data platforms and the team.
Brings thought leadership by collaborating with EDS LOBs, Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure, security and other ecosystem partners.
Conducts research on emerging cloud technologies in support of development efforts and recommend technologies that will effectively govern and increase effectiveness of data platforms.
Identifies opportunities and collaborates with other platform leaders to establish the go forward data platform toolset strategy, defining roadmaps including sunsetting non-strategic platforms.
This role can have a Hybrid or Remote work arrangement.
Candidates who live near one of our office locations will have the expectation of working in an office 3 days a week (Tuesday through Thursday) Candidates who do not live near an office will have a remote work arrangement, with the expectation of coming into an office as business needs arise.
Must be eligible to work in the US without company sponsorship.
Qualifications:
Bachelor s Degree with 7
years of work experience in engineering or architecture teams5
years of leadership experience, leading teams in software development, infrastructure, or data engineering3
years of architecture production workloads in cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred, Azure, etc.
)Proven leadership experience in platform architecture or software engineering or infrastructure, designing highly scalable technology solutionsStrong written and verbal communication skillsStrong Technical Knowledge and understanding the core concepts behind Cloud data platforms, open-source data frameworks, BI/Analytics, Data Warehousing, Data Lake, ETC etc.
products.
Experience with an Enterprise Architecture and governance practiceAbility to understand and align technical deliverables to the departmental and organization strategies and objectives.
Leader and a team player with transformation mindset.
Product and platform engineering mindset, to prioritize roadmaps, define features and capabilities, definition of done and ability to present to executive leaders both within the Enterprise Data Services organization and to business partners.
Understanding of Lean and agile principals, experience with Scaled Agile ways of working.
Provide thought-leadership to dynamic and collaborative teams, demonstrating excellent interpersonal skills and time management capabilities.
Planning, organization, compromise, and risk mitigationIndustry awareness about evolving design patterns for Cloud and Software-as-a-service provider-based solution integration.
Critical thinking and creativity for optimized solutions Hands on expertise in DevOps practices, technology solutions including maturing CI/CD in both cloud and data platforms.
Experience with FinOps including KPIs, cost modeling, show/bill back, cost optimization and automation.
Hands on experience in observability/telemetry, testing automation, SRE principals driving high level of automation and continuous improvement in internal customer experience.
Preferred
Qualifications:
AWS expertise:
AWS Solution Architect Professional, Data Analytics Professional, Data Engineer Associate etc.
certifications preferred.
Hands on experience with data platforms, ETL, BI/Analytics tools including Informatica, Snowflake, AWS EMR or open-source tools like Spark, PySpark, Hadoop etc.
Knowledge of architecture frameworks (TOGAF etc.
) or AWS Well-architected framework, designing, implementing and supporting secure, scalable, resilient and cost-effective data platformsExperience with large-scale cloud and data platform design & implementationCompensationThe listed annualized base pay range is primarily based on analysis of similar positions in the external market.
Actual base pay could vary and may be above or below the listed range based on factors including but not limited to performance, proficiency and demonstration of competencies required for the role.
The base pay is just one component of The Hartford s total compensation package for employees.
Other rewards may include short-term or annual bonuses, long-term incentives, and on-the-spot recognition.
The annualized base pay range for this role is:
$148,720 - $223,080Equal Opportunity Employer/Females/Minorities/Veterans/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity or Expression/Religion/AgeAbout Us Culture & Employee Insights Diversity, Equity and Inclusion BenefitsSummaryLocation:
Hartford, CT; Charlotte, NCType:
Full time.
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
Working here means having every opportunity to achieve your goals and to help others accomplish theirs, too.
Join our team as we help shape the future.
The Director, Platform Solution Architecture on the Enterprise Data Services Platform team is considered a senior leader for the data platform solution architecture team.
This leader is responsible leading a team of highly skilled data, software and cloud engineers designing scalable, secure, resilient data platforms, recommending and selecting data platform services, tools and associated architectures.
The ideal candidate is an experienced people leader leading teams in data, cloud or software engineering.
This director must be able to partner across leadership, including executives and lines of business technology teams and lead the Platform Solution Architecture team translating business requirements to platform design.
Job DescriptionLead our Enterprise Data Platform Solution Architecture team, supporting internal customers leveraging data platform services, from idea generation through platform design including analysis, design, cost benefit, prototyping and hand over to platform engineering for implementation.
Lead the team defining platform delivery standards, enforce operational excellence on delivery.
Standardize methodologies, tools and systems for efficiency and effectiveness across all portfolios.
This team also champion orchestration, automation and maintenance of our platform services in accordance with our EDS platform strategy.
Guide, architect and orchestrate immutable infrastructure that leverages programmable infrastructure, as code, and operationalize appropriate configuration management tools.
Establish data platform chargeback, forecasting and budgeting processes to efficiently drive cloud financial management.
Partner with lines of businesses to help them realize and optimize expenditure on data platforms.
Responsible for developing and enforcing data platform governance, architecture, operating procedures, monitoring and system standards.
Provides technical and team leadership for the Platform Solution Architecture Team, including coaching, recruiting, mentoring and setting appropriate expectations and goals.
Leads workload and workforce management and optimization activities of a team of cloud engineers, data engineers and software engineers.
Directly involved in capital budgeting, project and program planning and establishing strategic and annual plans for both data platforms and the team.
Brings thought leadership by collaborating with EDS LOBs, Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure, security and other ecosystem partners.
Conducts research on emerging cloud technologies in support of development efforts and recommend technologies that will effectively govern and increase effectiveness of data platforms.
Identifies opportunities and collaborates with other platform leaders to establish the go forward data platform toolset strategy, defining roadmaps including sunsetting non-strategic platforms.
This role can have a Hybrid or Remote work arrangement.
Candidates who live near one of our office locations will have the expectation of working in an office 3 days a week (Tuesday through Thursday) Candidates who do not live near an office will have a remote work arrangement, with the expectation of coming into an office as business needs arise.
Must be eligible to work in the US without company sponsorship.
Qualifications:
Bachelor s Degree with 7
years of work experience in engineering or architecture teams5
years of leadership experience, leading teams in software development, infrastructure, or data engineering3
years of architecture production workloads in cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred, Azure, etc.
)Proven leadership experience in platform architecture or software engineering or infrastructure, designing highly scalable technology solutionsStrong written and verbal communication skillsStrong Technical Knowledge and understanding the core concepts behind Cloud data platforms, open-source data frameworks, BI/Analytics, Data Warehousing, Data Lake, ETC etc.
products.
Experience with an Enterprise Architecture and governance practiceAbility to understand and align technical deliverables to the departmental and organization strategies and objectives.
Leader and a team player with transformation mindset.
Product and platform engineering mindset, to prioritize roadmaps, define features and capabilities, definition of done and ability to present to executive leaders both within the Enterprise Data Services organization and to business partners.
Understanding of Lean and agile principals, experience with Scaled Agile ways of working.
Provide thought-leadership to dynamic and collaborative teams, demonstrating excellent interpersonal skills and time management capabilities.
Planning, organization, compromise, and risk mitigationIndustry awareness about evolving design patterns for Cloud and Software-as-a-service provider-based solution integration.
Critical thinking and creativity for optimized solutions Hands on expertise in DevOps practices, technology solutions including maturing CI/CD in both cloud and data platforms.
Experience with FinOps including KPIs, cost modeling, show/bill back, cost optimization and automation.
Hands on experience in observability/telemetry, testing automation, SRE principals driving high level of automation and continuous improvement in internal customer experience.
Preferred
Qualifications:
AWS expertise:
AWS Solution Architect Professional, Data Analytics Professional, Data Engineer Associate etc.
certifications preferred.
Hands on experience with data platforms, ETL, BI/Analytics tools including Informatica, Snowflake, AWS EMR or open-source tools like Spark, PySpark, Hadoop etc.
Knowledge of architecture frameworks (TOGAF etc.
) or AWS Well-architected framework, designing, implementing and supporting secure, scalable, resilient and cost-effective data platformsExperience with large-scale cloud and data platform design & implementationCompensationThe listed annualized base pay range is primarily based on analysis of similar positions in the external market.
Actual base pay could vary and may be above or below the listed range based on factors including but not limited to performance, proficiency and demonstration of competencies required for the role.
The base pay is just one component of The Hartford s total compensation package for employees.
Other rewards may include short-term or annual bonuses, long-term incentives, and on-the-spot recognition.
The annualized base pay range for this role is:
$148,720 - $223,080Equal Opportunity Employer/Females/Minorities/Veterans/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity or Expression/Religion/AgeAbout Us Culture & Employee Insights Diversity, Equity and Inclusion BenefitsSummaryLocation:
Hartford, CT; Charlotte, NCType:
Full time.
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
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