Business Architect (Hybrid)

At Selective, we don't just insure uniquely, we employ uniqueness.

Our Business

Selective is a midsized U.S. domestic property and casualty insurance company with a history of strong, consistent financial performance for nearly 100 years.Selective's unique position as both a leading insurance group and an employer of choice is recognized in a wide variety of awards and honors, including listing in Forbes Best Midsize Employers in 2024 and certification as a Great Place to Work in 2024 for the fifth consecutive year.

Working at Selective

At Selective, we don't just insure uniquely - we employ uniqueness. Employees are empowered and encouraged to Be Uniquely You by being their true, unique selves and contributing their diverse talents, experiences, and perspectives to our shared success. Together, we are a high-performing team working to serve our customers responsibly by helping to mitigate loss, keep them safe, and restore their lives and businesses after an insured loss occurs. Employees receive comprehensive total rewards packages - including competitive compensation and performance awards, health benefits, and retirement savings - and professional development opportunities and flexible schedules to support their health, wealth, and well-being. Join our team and help make a difference.

Summary:

The successful business architect enhances the alignment of strategy to technology execution by translating long-term business strategies into assessments of capabilities that support the future state architecture. The architect will recommend capability enhancements through collaborative engagements with key stakeholders and guide investment and execution by developing multi-year integrated roadmaps. Success in the role requires developing trusted relationships across business and IT teams, facilitating cross-functional collaboration among stakeholders using impactful documents and interactions, and leveraging business and technological experience to evaluate strategic plans, assess capabilities, review emerging technologies, and recommend targeted actions that advance business interests.

Job Responsibilities:

• Works with business and IT leaders to establish a future state model of technology, process, information, and skill capabilities that align with business strategies and consider competitor' actions, market innovation, and digital disruptors that impact the business area's goals. Recommends changes to plans or investments, with a focus on growth, profitability, customer experience, and risk. Identifies opportunities for improvement in the form of cost savings, process improvements, or technology consolidation by levering capabilities in new ways.
• Evaluates gaps in business capabilities that impact the achievement of a future state and communicate recommendations to stakeholders using suitable artifacts and techniques. Establishes multi-year roadmaps that achieve the future state, align supporting teams, and guide investments.
• Visualizes growth opportunities and translates roadmaps into actionable recommendations for teams and stakeholders by leveraging a deep, expansive knowledge of the organization's internal IT business processes. Supports the estimation of work and development of business cases to execute on recommendations
• Collaborates with solution and data architects on selecting and aligning solutions to gaps in business capabilities while objectively weighing options, costs, benefits, and risks.
• Collaborates with project and operational delivery teams - in coordination with solution and data architects - to ensure continuous delivery of business outcomes, identify triggers to evolve the business architecture, and monitor closure of capability gaps.
• Collaborates with business process management to establish future state processes that align with the business units' technology plan.
• Builds and manages relationships with strategy and enterprise architecture teams to align enterprise capability needs and technology strategy.
• Uses business architecture methodology to create relevant artifacts: strategy on a page, capability heatmaps, roadmaps, and journey maps.
• Becomes a trusted advisor to business leaders developing and executing strategies. Acts as an internal consultant to Selective business leaders for new strategy development.

Job Qualifications:

• Five or more years of business experience with a direct responsibility for strategy formulation and/or translation, business analysis/analytics, business architecture and/or program management.
• Three or more years of experience working with technology solutions, including IT project, products, services, and capabilities.
• Knowledge and understanding of different types of business and operating models (existing, new, emerging and hybrid) in P&C Insurance
• Ability to assess the value and risk of existing, new and emerging technologies against new business designs and business models to achieve business outcomes

Salary range: $131,600 - $188,000. The actual base salary is based on geographic location, and the range is representative of salaries for this role throughout Selective's footprint. Additional considerations include the candidate's qualifications and experience.

Selective is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. That means we respect and value every individual's unique opinions, beliefs, abilities, and perspectives. We are committed to promoting a welcoming culture that celebrates diverse talent, individual identity, different points of view and experiences - and empowers employees to contribute new ideas that support our continued and growing success. Building a highly engaged team is one of our core strategic imperatives, which we believe is enhanced by diversity, equity, and inclusion. We expect and encourage all employees and all of our business partners to embrace, practice, and monitor the attitudes, values, and goals of acceptance; address biases; and foster diversity of viewpoints and opinions.

Selective is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Selective maintains a drug-free workplace.