Senior Enterprise Architect

• Lead the development of enterprise-level target architectures across business, application, data and technical architecture dimensions for major transformation initiatives, including how AI/GenAI can be applied.
• Translate business strategy into coherent architectural roadmaps, blueprints, and transition plans.
• Ensure alignment between business capabilities, application landscapes, data models, and technology platforms.
• Drive reuse, standardization, simplification, and long-term sustainability across the enterprise.
• Contribute to the evolution of Swiss Re's enterprise architecture frameworks, principles, and methods

• Act as lead Enterprise Architect on selected large-scale, complex programs.
• Ensure that solution designs are aligned with approved target architectures and enterprise standards.
• Provide architectural guidance throughout the lifecycle ranging from strategy and concept through implementation and stabilization.
• Challenge design decisions constructively to safeguard architectural integrity and measurable business value.
• Support program leadership in managing architectural risks, dependencies, and trade-offs.

• Actively contribute to the architecture Design Authority, providing oversight, review, and challenge on key initiatives.
• Ensure adherence to enterprise architecture standards, security principles, regulatory requirements, and risk frameworks.
• Support architecture governance processes, including review gates, quality assurance, and architectural compliance assessments.
• Help maintain transparency of architectural decisions and their enterprise-wide implications.

• Collaborate closely with Domain Architects for business units and group functions to ensure strong enterprise alignment.
• Facilitate alignment across domains when resolving cross-functional architectural dependencies.
• Promote a “one architecture” mindset while balancing enterprise-wide consistency with pragmatic domain needs.
• Contribute to the broader architecture community by sharing best practices and mentoring junior talent.

• Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across business and technology.
• Communicate complex architectural concepts clearly to diverse audiences, including senior management.
• Act as a strategic advisor on architecture implications of investment decisions and transformation roadmaps.
• Provide fact-based insights and data-driven recommendations to support executive decision-making.

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or large-scale transformation roles within global organizations.
• Proven experience defining and delivering target architectures for complex transformation initiatives.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF), governance models, and operating models.
• Demonstrated experience working in matrixed, global environments with senior stakeholder exposure.
• Strong grasp of business capability modeling, application landscape modernization, data architecture, cloud/platform and AI strategies.
• Experience in re/insurance or financial services is an advantage.

• Strategic thinker with strong analytical and systems thinking skills.
• Able to balance long-term architectural vision with pragmatic delivery constraints.
• Strong influencing and stakeholder management skills.
• Clear and compelling communicator, both written and verbal.
• Collaborative mindset with high personal accountability.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and navigating complex organizational landscapes.

• the requirements, scope, complexity and responsibilities of the role,​
• the applicant's own profile including education/qualifications, expertise, specialisation, skills and experience.​

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