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 160 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. Target Openings 1 What Is the Opportunity? Unlock the Future: Join Us as a Senior Business Architect! If you're ready to turn visions into reality and drive our company's success to new heights, keep reading—your next adventure starts here. This role partners with business and functional leadership to contribute business architecture rigor, insight, and analysis, to teams defining, assessing, and planning to bridge strategy to execution. In this role, you will also be responsible for leading engagements with varying levels of complexity. Travelers Europe currently offers flexibility to employees who wish to work on a hybrid basis in accordance with our Hybrid Work Arrangements Policy. This entails full time employees working three days a week in the office and two days at home (or pro-rata for part-time employees). This policy may be changed at the Company’s discretion. What Will You Do? You will support the growing need for business solution architecture engagement with the value streams through the following activities: Value Stream / Circle Partnership Connect with circle leadership to identify potential engagements and future BSA needs. Stay abreast of general value stream and circle roadmap. Identify impacts or relationships and provide context across value streams. Support customer/agent/employee journeys and product modernisation by defining solutions that enable the ideal experience. Initiative shaping Transform business needs, ideas and hunches into distinct bodies of work. Identify high level business capability areas to support proposed needs. Identify impacted value stream and circles to support prioritisation. Business capability articulation and refinement. Partner with business areas to elicit capability gaps. Facilitate working sessions with business leaders and SMEs to: Conduct current state assessment to identify pain points and gaps. Draw out future state business needs. Synthesise concrete and specific business capabilities needed to support general business needs. Articulate, capture and refine capability needs across BI. Logically organise and maintain capability needs to best suit engagement. Develop conceptual artefacts to illustrate proposed solution. Present summarised findings to senior leadership. Technical solution coordination Partner with technical stakeholders to inform scope of business needs, ensure adequate understanding and inform technical estimation process. Stewardship of high level established and strategic technical patterns to ensure consistency across initiatives. Map business capability needs to technical solution to ensure business needs are fully addressed. Evaluate emerging technology for business capability fit What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have? Demonstrated business experience with working knowledge of business analysis, process improvement and/or business architecture. Leadership Skills Personally accountable Demonstrated ability to interact and influence across levels of organization Ability to drive outcomes Increases organisational performance through coaching and mentoring Influencing Skills Seeks opportunities to learn from and to influence others Facilitate negotiations toward practical solutions Relationship Management (Advanced) High emotional intelligence Ability to consider others’ ideas; responds well to feedback Ability to work independently, as a member of a team, and team lead Demonstrated ability to build strong relationships with a diverse group of people at all levels in both business and IT areas across the Enterprise Strong credibility; easily gains respect and trust from others Organisational Skills Highly adaptable, with ability to proactively accommodate shifting priorities and aggressive timelines Ability to organise work efficiently and effectively Ability to see results to completion Communication Skills Excellent oral and written communication skills Strong presentation skills Highly effective facilitation skills within small or large group settings Presents thoughts effectively with individuals at all levels within the organization including senior leaders Ability to successfully collaborate within team and throughout organization to bring together desired results Ability to convey information in accurate and consumable models Ability to translate concepts into terms understandable by everyone Problem Solving and Analysis Skills Ability to assimilate and correlate disconnected information, identify patterns, and articulate organisational relevance Ability to solicit input, analyse data, draw conclusions and provide recommendations Uses logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions Ability to hold both a “big-picture” and a detailed view of a business problem when considering solutions Creatively generates ideas with confidence What is a Must Have? Demonstrated business experience, with working knowledge of business analysis, process improvement, business transformation, and/or business strategy development within complex organisations and business environments. Thorough knowledge of business architecture tools and concepts. What Is in It for You? Private Medical Insurance: On commencement of employment, you are eligible for single cover provided by Travelers, with the option to add cover for your dependents, at your expense through payroll deduction. Retirement: Travelers will make a core contribution of a percentage of salary to your Pension Plan. Additionally, if you decide to contribute to the plan, you will receive an increased company contribution. Holiday Entitlement: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 25 days holiday entitlement annually, plus the opportunity to purchase additional days to allow for up to a total of 35 holidays per year. Wellness Programme: The Travelers wellness programme is comprised of tools, discounts and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals and caregiving needs. In addition, our mental health programme provides access to free professional counseling services and other resources that 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 programme 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. If you are a candidate and have specific questions rega