Principal Enterprise Architect - Remote

Your Role: The Principal Enterprise Architect serves as a member of the CTO office or a senior staff within each of the individual business or technology domains within IT. You will play a key role in defining, planning, and realizing the enterprise technology vision aligned with the business and IT strategy. Responsibilities include researching, analyzing, designing, proposing, and delivering business solutions that are appropriate for the corporate, business and technology strategies. Your Work:

• Facilitating designs and building solutions across the enterprise, with a focus on evolving our technical capabilities in support of delivering business capabilities. Solutions are built in a highly collaborative environment, partnering with engineering, product, and program leaders.
• Leads and provides direction to Application Integration, Data, and Platform architecture vision for the enterprise.
• Works on the most complex projects and contributes to the overall strategic vision of the organization
• Integrates a broad range of ideas regarding technical and solution architecture, while developing strategies for migration toward the cloud architectural vision.
• Partners with business leaders to provide expert technical advice and influence strategic decision making
• Assess industry trends (business and technology) and appropriately position their subject areas.
• Provides thought leadership, create strategies and make recommendations on a wide variety of complex issues having a significant and strategic impact on processes and the business.
• Creates, guides, and partners with other architects in creating and maintaining roadmaps that connect business strategies to capabilities and provide a milestone-view of the cadence needed to move from current state to future state.
• Delivers a clear, pragmatic, approach with applicability to meet immediate business needs
• Demonstrates a strong ability to learn new information and systems quickly, works successfully in a highly matrixed organization
• Effectively manage priorities, deliverables and timelines with little need for escalation
• Demonstrates a strong bias for architecture principles balanced with tactical schedules, cost, and risks
• Leverage the appropriate mix of in-house and outsourced resources to protect intellectual property., * Actively shapes our company culture (e.g., supporting employee resource groups, mentoring employees, volunteering, joining cross-functional projects)
• Champions our cultural norms (e.g., willing to have cameras when it matters: helping onboard new team members, building relationships, etc.)
• Demonstrates a company ownership mindset, thinking beyond boundaries of their own area
• Travels as needed for role, including divisional / team meetings and other in-person meetings
• Fulfills business needs, which may include investing extra time, helping other teams, etc

Please note we are hiring for this role remote anywhere in the United States with the following exceptions: Hawaii and Alaska., Sustainability: As climate change leads to more frequent and severe weather events, we are taking bold action to build more resilient communities and reduce our environmental impact. Submit your application to be considered. We communicate via email, so check your inbox and/or your spam folder to ensure you don’t miss important updates from us., If you apply and are selected to continue in the recruiting process, we will schedule a preliminary call with you to discuss the role and will disclose during that call the available salary/hourly rate range based on your location. Factors used to determine the actual salary offered may include location, experience, or education.

• Technical skills: 15+ years experience with building scalable, multi-tier distributed cloud-native application architectures.
• Experience designing APIs, integrations with external systems including 3rd parties. Experience with one of the 3 cloud providers - AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Experience designing systems that has messaging characteristics. Experience designing systems that take advantage of both SQL and NoSQL. databases.
• Good understanding of front-end UI frameworks like ReactJS. Mobile app development is a strong plus.
• Experience with designing secure systems using cyber security best practices.
• Bachelor’s degree in related area (Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field) or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 15+ years Systems development and business experience designing solutions for multiple types of systems, client users and/or units across an organization.
• 5+ years Technical experience in a specific domain for design, development and deployments.
• Experience in a significant business domain such as CRM, Marketing, Insurance/Claims or Financial systems
• Good written and verbal communication skills to help interrface with other teams.

Recognition: We offer a total compensation package, annual bonus eligibility for most roles, 401(k) with a company match, and so much more! Read more about what we offer and what it is like to be a part of our dynamic team at https://careers.csaainsurance.aaa.com/us/en/benefits.

CSAA Insurance Group (CSAA IG), a AAA insurer, is one of the leading personal lines property and casualty insurance groups in the United States. Here, every employee shapes our mission. We build innovative, human-centered solutions that help AAA members prevent, prepare for, and recover from life’s uncertainties. You will join a collaborative, inclusive culture where your strengths have room to grow and your ideas can drive real impact. Step into a role where you can contribute to our shared success through meaningful work., Career Growth: We believe in growth for everyone. Here at CSAA IG, leaders and mentors partner with employees to align interests, unlock development opportunities, and support longterm success.

Flexible Workplace: We embrace a remote-first culture through our Flexible Workplace. Most employees hold Home-Flex roles, working primarily from home, often with the flexibility to work from various locations including CSAA offices. Our flexible workplace empowers you to balance remote work with intentional inperson moments that deepen connection and collaboration.