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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
$216,300.00 - $348,700.00
Target Openings
1
What Is the Opportunity?
Collaborative Environment, Transformational Initiatives, and a Growing Team!
Are you passionate about technology and business transformation? Are you looking for a leadership role that offers flexibility and the opportunity to make a significant impact? If so, we are seeking a senior leader to join the Travelers Enterprise Technology Services Enterprise Architecture team, supporting our Cybersecurity organization.
As part of this strategic and collaborative organization, you will help transform our business and technology capabilities. You will report directly to the VP, Enterprise Chief Architect, with a dual reporting relationship to the Chief Information Security Officer and you will collaborate with senior technology, business, and functional leaders to influence and innovate solutions that impact Travelers' business.
Let us help you accelerate your career as we grow our team and transform our business.
What Will You Do?
Scope:
- Responsible for architecture for our cyber security organization, which provides oversight and support for our technology and business partners while leading a team of Cybersecurity Architects of varying levels.
Cybersecurity Zero Trust Architecture:
- Advancing the target-state Cybersecurity Zero Trust architecture for the enterprise across all security domains including endpoint, mobile, web, access, encryption, network security, visibility, application, and data security concepts.
- Securing cloud-native infrastructure and container platforms.
- Implementing security frameworks for API ecosystems and digital platforms.
- Developing security patterns for AI platforms and enterprise data ecosystems.
- Ensuring security architecture aligns with enterprise modernization initiatives.
- Define architecture to address Identity and Access Management modernization as well as threat mitigation techniques.
Technical Execution:
- Define and lead technology proof of concepts to ensure feasibility of architecture solutions.
- Proactively identify opportunities to capitalize on technology advances through analysis of key industry and technology trends to assess potential impact on the enterprise.
- Drive continuous technology transformation to minimize technical debt.
- Conduct hands-on prototyping of new technology solutions.
- Partner with Technology and Business leadership to ensure proper alignment with technology direction and execution of proof of technologies.
Strategic Accountability:
- Provide strong thought leadership in pursuit of modern architecture principles and technology modernization.
- Provide visionary leadership to a high-performing team, aligning individual goals with broader organizational objectives.
- Engage with senior leadership within Technology and Business to develop architecture priorities and direction to enable business imperatives and gain buy-in.
- Prepare and deliver communications to convey architectural direction.
- Drive strategic relationships and champion organizational buy-in.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?
Technical Expertise & Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in technology-related field or equivalent, with 8 to 10 years of architecture experience.
- Advanced level architecture and recent hands-on strong engineering experience with modern technologies.
- Successful execution of complex, large scale technology strategies.
- AWS Security Specialty Certification preferred.
- Strong understanding of Identity and Access Management (IAM) approaches, technology and procedure.
- Working knowledge of Zero Trust principles, application security, and threat/vulnerability management.
- Demonstrated proficiency in designing security solutions that align to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and Cloud Security Alliance methodologies.
Leadership & Influence:
- Advanced leadership skills with the ability to leverage cross-functional networks to collaborate with architecture and engineering leaders on problem-solving, build company-wide credibility, prioritize critical architectural challenges, and strengthen the Architecture organization through knowledge sharing, mentoring, and creating development opportunities for team members.
- Proven track record of Influencing C-level leadership.
Strategic & Business Acumen:
- Extensive experience working in an agile operational model.
- Advanced experience supporting transformational change. Able to adjust plans, priorities and strategies in response to changing circumstances.
- Experience developing technology target states and roadmaps that align to short- and long-term business goals.
- Insurance technology experience preferred.
- Strong understanding of value creation and business capability models.
- Strong knowledge of the insurance industry.
- Advanced experience identifying and analyzing current/future problems and opportunities, evaluating information to understand root causes, and exploring alternative solutions for effective decision-making.
- Proven ability to work collaboratively with colleagues to achieve mutually responsible results.
- Extensive experience exercising sound judgment, making decisions and committing to a position.
- Advanced and 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.
- 10 additional years of architecture/software engineering experience.
- 5 years of technical leadership 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/.
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
$216,300.00 - $348,700.00
Target Openings
1
What Is the Opportunity?
Collaborative Environment, Transformational Initiatives, and a Growing Team!
Are you passionate about technology and business transformation? Are you looking for a leadership role that offers flexibility and the opportunity to make a significant impact? If so, we are seeking a senior leader to join the Travelers Enterprise Technology Services Enterprise Architecture team, supporting our Cybersecurity organization.
As part of this strategic and collaborative organization, you will help transform our business and technology capabilities. You will report directly to the VP, Enterprise Chief Architect, with a dual reporting relationship to the Chief Information Security Officer and you will collaborate with senior technology, business, and functional leaders to influence and innovate solutions that impact Travelers' business.
Let us help you accelerate your career as we grow our team and transform our business.
What Will You Do?
Scope:
- Responsible for architecture for our cyber security organization, which provides oversight and support for our technology and business partners while leading a team of Cybersecurity Architects of varying levels.
Cybersecurity Zero Trust Architecture:
- Advancing the target-state Cybersecurity Zero Trust architecture for the enterprise across all security domains including endpoint, mobile, web, access, encryption, network security, visibility, application, and data security concepts.
- Securing cloud-native infrastructure and container platforms.
- Implementing security frameworks for API ecosystems and digital platforms.
- Developing security patterns for AI platforms and enterprise data ecosystems.
- Ensuring security architecture aligns with enterprise modernization initiatives.
- Define architecture to address Identity and Access Management modernization as well as threat mitigation techniques.
Technical Execution:
- Define and lead technology proof of concepts to ensure feasibility of architecture solutions.
- Proactively identify opportunities to capitalize on technology advances through analysis of key industry and technology trends to assess potential impact on the enterprise.
- Drive continuous technology transformation to minimize technical debt.
- Conduct hands-on prototyping of new technology solutions.
- Partner with Technology and Business leadership to ensure proper alignment with technology direction and execution of proof of technologies.
Strategic Accountability:
- Provide strong thought leadership in pursuit of modern architecture principles and technology modernization.
- Provide visionary leadership to a high-performing team, aligning individual goals with broader organizational objectives.
- Engage with senior leadership within Technology and Business to develop architecture priorities and direction to enable business imperatives and gain buy-in.
- Prepare and deliver communications to convey architectural direction.
- Drive strategic relationships and champion organizational buy-in.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?
Technical Expertise & Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in technology-related field or equivalent, with 8 to 10 years of architecture experience.
- Advanced level architecture and recent hands-on strong engineering experience with modern technologies.
- Successful execution of complex, large scale technology strategies.
- AWS Security Specialty Certification preferred.
- Strong understanding of Identity and Access Management (IAM) approaches, technology and procedure.
- Working knowledge of Zero Trust principles, application security, and threat/vulnerability management.
- Demonstrated proficiency in designing security solutions that align to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and Cloud Security Alliance methodologies.
Leadership & Influence:
- Advanced leadership skills with the ability to leverage cross-functional networks to collaborate with architecture and engineering leaders on problem-solving, build company-wide credibility, prioritize critical architectural challenges, and strengthen the Architecture organization through knowledge sharing, mentoring, and creating development opportunities for team members.
- Proven track record of Influencing C-level leadership.
Strategic & Business Acumen:
- Extensive experience working in an agile operational model.
- Advanced experience supporting transformational change. Able to adjust plans, priorities and strategies in response to changing circumstances.
- Experience developing technology target states and roadmaps that align to short- and long-term business goals.
- Insurance technology experience preferred.
- Strong understanding of value creation and business capability models.
- Strong knowledge of the insurance industry.
- Advanced experience identifying and analyzing current/future problems and opportunities, evaluating information to understand root causes, and exploring alternative solutions for effective decision-making.
- Proven ability to work collaboratively with colleagues to achieve mutually responsible results.
- Extensive experience exercising sound judgment, making decisions and committing to a position.
- Advanced and 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.
- 10 additional years of architecture/software engineering experience.
- 5 years of technical leadership 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/.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding TN Visa Sponsorship as a Chief Architect
Align your credentials to USMCA's Engineer category
TN visa approval for Chief Architect roles hinges on framing your background under the Engineer occupational category. Your degree and job duties must center on systems design or technical architecture, not licensed building practice under state law.
Target employers with distributed or remote architecture teams
Large technology and infrastructure firms with U.S. headquarters and cross-border teams process TN sponsorship routinely. Prioritize roles where the job description emphasizes technical systems architecture, since that framing matches TN's Engineer category more cleanly than traditional architectural titles.
Request a detailed offer letter covering technical duties
CBP officers evaluate your offer letter on the spot at the Canadian border. Ask your employer to describe your duties in engineering terms: system design, technical specifications, and infrastructure oversight. Vague titles like 'Chief Architect' without duty descriptions draw extra scrutiny.
Search for TN-ready roles using Migrate Mate
Use Migrate Mate to filter Chief Architect roles by employers with recent visa filings, which indicates they have experience with work visa sponsorship. This cuts down research time and surfaces positions where hiring teams already understand the sponsorship process and won't withdraw offers over visa complexity.
Prepare credential equivalency documentation before applying
If your architecture or engineering degree is from a Canadian or Mexican institution, gather official transcripts and, if needed, a credential evaluation showing U.S. equivalency. CBP and consular officers compare your degree field directly against the USMCA Engineer category definition.
Understand that TN approval does not transfer between employers
Each new employer requires a fresh TN petition or border application. If you accept a Chief Architect role at a second company, you cannot begin work until the new TN is approved. Canadian citizens can process this at the port of entry; Mexican nationals must return to a consulate.
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Find Chief Architect JobsChief Architect TN Visa: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Chief Architect role qualify for a TN visa?
It depends on how the role is defined. TN visas for architects require a state or provincial license, while roles framed under the Engineer category require a degree in engineering or a related field. Chief Architect positions that focus on technical systems design, infrastructure planning, or software architecture typically qualify under the Engineer category rather than the Architect category. Your offer letter's duty description is what CBP or the consulate evaluates.
How does TN compare to H-1B for Chief Architect positions?
TN has no annual lottery and no cap for Canadian citizens, so you can apply at a port of entry the same day your offer letter is finalized. H-1B requires entering a random lottery held once per year, with results in spring for an October 1 start date. For Chief Architect roles that qualify under the USMCA Engineer category, TN is a faster and more predictable path. Mexican nationals face a TN cap, but it rarely fills.
Can I find Chief Architect jobs with TN sponsorship on Migrate Mate?
Yes. Migrate Mate surfaces Chief Architect roles from employers with TN visa sponsorship history. You can filter by role type and visa category, which saves time compared to screening job listings individually. Employers listed on the platform are familiar with TN requirements, so you're less likely to encounter withdrawn offers once visa needs come up in the hiring process.
What documents do I need for a TN application as a Chief Architect?
You'll need a detailed offer letter from your U.S. employer, your original degree transcripts or diploma, and government-issued identification. If your role is framed under the Engineer category, your degree must be in engineering, computer science, or a closely related technical field. Canadian citizens present these at the border and receive a decision the same day. Mexican nationals submit through a U.S. consulate and wait for an interview appointment.
How long does TN visa status last, and can it be renewed?
TN status is granted in three-year increments with no statutory limit on renewals, so you can stay in TN status indefinitely as long as you maintain qualifying employment. Renewals follow the same process as the initial application. Canadian citizens renew at the border; Mexican nationals renew through consular processing. There's no grace period built into TN status, so timing your renewal before your current period expires matters.
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