Who Are We?
Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That’s the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 170 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.
Compensation Overview
The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.
Salary Range
$126,500.00 - $208,700.00
Target Openings
1
What Is the Opportunity?
Travelers is seeking an IT Architect to join our Enterprise Technology Solutions organization as we grow and modernize our technology landscape. Our Architects are responsible for designing and guiding the technology vision that enables business transformation - specializing in enterprise-wide solutions that bridge current capabilities with future possibilities.
This strategic role requires deep expertise in application architecture, distributed systems, and cloud-native technologies, with a strong foundation in modern software engineering principles. The ideal candidate brings end-to-end systems thinking across complex, multi-system environments - and an emerging or demonstrated ability to apply AI to solve real business automation and engineering challenges.
As the essential bridge between business strategy and technical implementation, this role directly impacts organizational agility, system integration, and the enterprise's ability to rapidly adapt and scale across a broad technology landscape.
What Will You Do?
- Scope:
- Responsible for architecture within a specific segment or domain for a single business unit.
- Technical Execution:
- Own architectural direction within a specific domain or business unit, with an eye toward enterprise-wide consistency and interoperability.
- Design and guide application architecture using modern languages and frameworks (e.g., Java, Python, Go, Node.js), with a focus on clean, scalable, maintainable patterns.
- Architect distributed, multi-system solutions - spanning microservices, event-driven architectures, APIs, and cloud-native platforms - ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance end-to-end.
- Lead hands-on prototyping and proof-of-concept work to evaluate emerging technologies and validate architectural approaches.
- Define integration patterns across heterogeneous environments, including modern digital platforms and, where applicable, legacy system interfaces.
- Contribute to defining target state technology architecture and roadmaps.
- Conduct hands-on prototyping and technology proof of concepts.
- Partner in the execution of proof of technologies.
- Strategic Accountability:
- Contribute to target state architecture and roadmaps.
- Support technology modernization initiatives.
- Help minimize technical debt through continuous transformation.
- Build foundational relationships and encourage buy-in.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?
- Technical Expertise & Education:
- Bachelor’s in technology related field or equivalent with 6 years of demonstrated engineering experience or 2 to 3 years of technology architecture experience.
- Recent hands-on architecture and/or engineering experience with modern technologies.
- Experience with successful execution of modernizing technology initiatives.
- Leadership & Influence:
- Intermediate leadership skills with the ability to foster a supportive learning environment where team members can develop and grow along with a proven track record of self-motivation in identifying opportunities and tracking team efforts.
- Strategic & Business Acumen:
- Experience working in an agile operating model.
- Insurance technology experience preferred.
- Contribute to target-state architecture definitions and multi-year technology roadmaps.
- Support technology modernization initiatives, helping teams migrate from legacy patterns toward scalable, cloud-native architectures.
- Proactively identify and help reduce technical debt through continuous transformation practices.
- Build relationships across engineering, product, and business teams to foster architectural alignment and buy-in.
- Understanding of value creation and business capability models.
- Knowledge of the insurance industry.
- Able to identify and analyze current/future problems and opportunities, evaluate information to understand root causes, and explore alternative solutions for effective decision-making.
- Ability to work collaboratively with teammates to achieve mutually responsible results.
- Experience exercising sound judgment, making decisions and committing to a position.
- Effective verbal, written and listening communication skills.
What is a Must Have?
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, related STEM field, or its equivalent in education and/or work experience.
- 4 additional years of architecture/software engineering experience.
What Is in It for You?
- Health Insurance: Employees and their eligible family members – including spouses, domestic partners, and children – are eligible for coverage from the first day of employment.
- Retirement: Travelers matches your 401(k) contributions dollar-for-dollar up to your first 5% of eligible pay, subject to an annual maximum. If you have student loan debt, you can enroll in the Paying it Forward Savings Program. When you make a payment toward your student loan, Travelers will make an annual contribution into your 401(k) account. You are also eligible for a Pension Plan that is 100% funded by Travelers.
- Paid Time Off: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 20 days Paid Time Off annually, plus nine paid company Holidays.
- Wellness Program: The Travelers wellness program is comprised of tools, discounts and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals and caregiving needs. In addition, our mental health program provides access to free professional counseling services, health coaching and other resources to support your daily life needs.
- Volunteer Encouragement: We have a deep commitment to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards program that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice.
Employment Practices
Travelers is an equal opportunity employer. We value the unique abilities and talents each individual brings to our organization and recognize that we benefit in numerous ways from our differences.
In accordance with local law, candidates seeking employment in Colorado are not required to disclose dates of attendance at or graduation from educational institutions.
If you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email so we may assist you.
Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting.
To learn more about our comprehensive benefit programs please visit http://careers.travelers.com/life-at-travelers/benefits/.
