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Company URL: https://www.berkleytechnologyservices.com/                                        

Berkley Technology Services (BTS) is a dynamic company committed to providing world class IT services. We offer a unique culture, enabling our team members to be on the cutting edge of technology while delivering high quality solutions. We are looking for outstanding individuals who will bring unique perspectives, insight and innovation to our teams. BTS, a member company of W. R. Berkley Corporation, has facilities located in Des Moines, Iowa and Wilmington, Delaware.  Our functions include working with various third parties to develop, integrate, and support insurance systems of WRBC's operating units. BTS strives to provide these functions in a holistic manner including helpdesk support, system connectivity, and operational support. Additional responsibilities include coordinating communications regarding best practices in the use of our supported systems and researching new technology. At BTS, there are opportunities associated with being a part of an established and empowering corporation while maintaining a positive personal working environment. Additionally, we provide a competitive compensation and benefits package including a casual dress code. BTS is constantly growing and expanding to meet the changing demands of one of the most successful insurance organizations in the world. Visit us at berkley-bts.com to learn more information.

The Company is an equal employment opportunity employer. 

The Enterprise Architect partners with business and technology leaders to translate organizational strategy into enterprise capabilities, target-state architectures, transition roadmaps, and informed technology investment decisions. The role provides enterprise-wide direction for application and technology portfolios, including modernization, rationalization, lifecycle management, technical debt reduction, and responsible adoption of AI and emerging technologies. 

Serving as a trusted advisor, the Enterprise Architect evaluates business value, cost, risk, architecture, data readiness, security, resilience, and organizational impact to recommend whether capabilities and technologies should be enhanced, consolidated, modernized, replaced, or retired. The role leads through influence, enables cross-domain decisions, and helps teams balance enterprise standards and reuse with the needs of individual operating companies.

Business and Technical Strategy 

• Partner with business and technology leaders to understand strategic priorities, customer and employee needs, operating constraints, and growth opportunities. 
• Translate business strategy into enterprise capabilities, target architectures, transition roadmaps, and sequenced investment choices. 
• Frame recommendations, business cases, and solutions in terms of business value, cost, risk, speed, resilience, and organizational impact, not technical views alone. 
• Identify opportunities to simplify processes, rationalize platforms, improve reuse, and strengthen enterprise leverage while respecting individual company needs. 
• Maintain contact with vendors, industry peers, and professional associations to keep informed of existing and emerging industry trends, standards, and technologies. 

Architecture Direction and Portfolio Guidance 

• Develop and maintain architecture principles, standards, guidelines, business capability models, and roadmaps that support enterprise priorities. 
• Provide architecture guidance across initiatives and portfolios, identifying dependencies, redundancies, technical debt, and opportunities for reuse. 
• Influence portfolio planning and technology lifecycle decisions through research, data-driven rationale, market trends, target architectures, and roadmaps. 

Solution Guidance and Governance 

• Advise product, application, data, infrastructure, security, and engineering teams on solution direction and key design decisions. 
• Lead or participate in architecture reviews with a pragmatic focus on business value, risk, standards alignment, technical debt, interoperability, scalability, and long-term sustainability. 
• Create clear, decision-enabling architecture artifacts appropriate to their audience and the decisions being made. 
• Escalate material risks and exceptions while helping teams identify viable paths forward. 

AI and Emerging Technology 

• Partner with business and technology leaders to shape the enterprise approach to AI, including generative and agentic AI, by connecting use cases to business outcomes, data readiness, architecture, security, legal, compliance, and responsible use requirements. 
• Guide teams in selecting fit-for-purpose AI patterns, platforms, models, tooling, and integration approaches, including build-versus-buy decisions. 
• Assess AI and emerging technology opportunities through experiments and proofs-of-concept with clear hypotheses, guardrails, adoption considerations, and success metrics. 
• Promote AI literacy among leaders, architects, engineers, and delivery teams by explaining capabilities, limitations, risks, and practical application patterns. 

Influence, Leadership, and Change 

• Build trusted relationships across business and technology organizations and communicate effectively with executives, business leaders, and technical groups. 
• Lead enterprise architecture initiatives and support adoption through stakeholder alignment, communication, ongoing support arrangements, and change management. 
• Mentor architects and engineers, strengthen architecture practices, and contribute reusable knowledge to the technical community. 
• Create clarity in ambiguous situations, facilitate decisions across competing priorities, and promote accountability for outcomes. 

Required 

• 10+ years of progressive experience in technology, developing/engineering solutions and leading multiple cross-domain engineering initiatives. 
• 6+ years of experience spanning multiple business and technology domains, with substantial depth in at least one architecture discipline and working experience across two or more additional disciplines. 
• Proven ability to connect business strategy, capabilities, processes, technology, risk, and cost into coherent recommendations and transition roadmaps. 
• Experience designing, developing, or modernizing technology capabilities supporting commercial insurance operations including translating business requirements into solution, application, integration, data, and/or platform decisions. 
• Working knowledge of modern AI concepts and architectures, including generative AI, agentic systems, data and model dependencies, integration patterns, security, governance, and responsible AI. 
• Working knowledge of public cloud platforms and modern data, integration, platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, and cybersecurity practices. 
• Strong executive communication, facilitation, consulting, and decision-framing skills, including the ability to explain complex topics in concise business terms. 
• Ability to lead through influence, navigate ambiguity, build alignment, and produce results across organizational boundaries. 
• Strong analytical judgment, curiosity, customer focus, and commitment to collaboration and continuous learning. 

Preferred 

• Experience as an Enterprise Architect or in a comparable enterprise-wide strategy or execution role. 
• Experience applying AI to business or technology use cases and participating in AI governance, enablement, or platform decisions. 
• Experience with product-oriented delivery, Agile methods, architecture repositories, capability-based planning, and technology portfolio management. 
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This company is an equal opportunity employer

The company offers a competitive compensation plan and robust benefits package for full time regular employees which for this role include:
• Base Salary Range: $99,000 – $187,000 annually
• Benefits: Health, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Wellness, Paid Time Off, 401(k) and Profit-Sharing plans.
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.