Enterprise Architect

About the company

Berkley Technology Services (BTS) is a dynamic company committed to providing world‑class IT services. We offer a unique culture, enabling our team members to be on the cutting edge of technology while delivering high‑quality solutions. BTS, a member company of W. R. Berkley Corporation, has facilities in Des Moines, Iowa and Wilmington, Delaware. Our functions include working with various third parties to develop, integrate, and support insurance systems of WRBC's operating units, providing helpdesk support, system connectivity, and operational support. We also coordinate communications regarding best practices and research new technology. BTS provides a competitive compensation and benefits package including a casual dress code.

Responsibilities

• Actively integrate AI‑assisted tools into daily engineering work, treating AI as a natural extension of expertise.
• Partner with business and technology leaders to translate organizational strategy into enterprise capabilities, target‑state architectures, transition roadmaps, and informed technology investment decisions.
• Provide enterprise‑wide direction for application and technology portfolios, including modernization, rationalization, lifecycle management, technical debt reduction, and responsible adoption of AI and emerging technologies.
• Serve as a trusted advisor evaluating business value, cost, risk, architecture, data readiness, security, resilience, and organizational impact to recommend whether capabilities should be enhanced, consolidated, modernized, replaced, or retired.
• Lead through influence, enable cross‑domain decisions, and balance enterprise standards with the needs of individual operating companies.
• Business and Technical Strategy: Understand strategic priorities, customer and employee needs, operating constraints, and growth opportunities; translate business strategy into enterprise capabilities, target architectures, transition roadmaps, and sequenced investment choices; frame recommendations in terms of business value, cost, risk, speed, resilience, and organizational impact; identify opportunities to simplify processes, rationalize platforms, improve reuse, and strengthen enterprise leverage; maintain contact with vendors, industry peers, and professional associations to stay current on trends and technologies.
• Architecture Direction and Portfolio Guidance: Develop and maintain architecture principles, standards, guidelines, business capability models, and roadmaps; provide architecture guidance across initiatives and portfolios, identifying dependencies, redundancies, technical debt, and reuse opportunities; influence portfolio planning and technology lifecycle decisions through research, data‑driven rationale, market trends, target architectures, and roadmaps.
• Solution Guidance and Governance: Advise product, application, data, infrastructure, security, and engineering teams on solution direction and key design decisions; lead or participate in architecture reviews focused on business value, risk, standards alignment, technical debt, interoperability, scalability, and long‑term sustainability; create clear, decision‑enabling architecture artifacts; escalate material risks and exceptions while helping teams identify viable paths forward.
• AI and Emerging Technology: Shape the enterprise approach to AI (including generative and agentic AI) by connecting use cases to business outcomes, data readiness, architecture, security, legal, compliance, and responsible‑use requirements; guide teams in selecting fit‑for‑purpose AI patterns, platforms, models, tooling, and integration approaches; assess AI opportunities through experiments and proofs‑of‑concept with clear hypotheses, guardrails, adoption considerations, and success metrics; promote AI literacy among leaders, architects, engineers, and delivery teams.
• Influence, Leadership, and Change: Build trusted relationships across business and technology organizations; communicate effectively with executives, business leaders, and technical groups; lead enterprise architecture initiatives and support adoption through stakeholder alignment, communication, ongoing support, and change management; mentor architects and engineers, strengthen architecture practices, and contribute reusable knowledge; create clarity in ambiguity, facilitate decisions across competing priorities, and promote accountability for outcomes.

Qualifications

Required

• 10+ years of progressive experience in technology, developing/engineering solutions and leading multiple cross‑domain engineering initiatives.
• 6+ years of experience spanning multiple business and technology domains, with substantial depth in at least one architecture discipline and working experience across two or more additional disciplines.
• Proven ability to connect business strategy, capabilities, processes, technology, risk, and cost into coherent recommendations and transition roadmaps.
• Experience designing, developing, or modernizing technology capabilities supporting commercial insurance operations, including translating business requirements into solution, application, integration, data, and/or platform decisions.
• Working knowledge of modern AI concepts and architectures, including generative AI, agentic systems, data and model dependencies, integration patterns, security, governance, and responsible AI.
• Working knowledge of public cloud platforms and modern data, integration, platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, and cybersecurity practices.
• Strong executive communication, facilitation, consulting, and decision‑framing skills, including the ability to explain complex topics in concise business terms.
• Ability to lead through influence, navigate ambiguity, build alignment, and produce results across organizational boundaries.
• Demonstrated comfort using AI‑assisted tools in a professional context; approaches AI as a standard part of modern workflow.
• Strong analytical judgment, curiosity, customer focus, and commitment to collaboration and continuous learning.

Preferred

• Experience as an Enterprise Architect or in a comparable enterprise‑wide strategy or execution role.
• Experience applying AI to business or technology use cases and participating in AI governance, enablement, or platform decisions.
• Experience with product‑oriented delivery, Agile methods, architecture repositories, capability‑based planning, and technology portfolio management.

Benefits

Base Salary Range: $99,000 – $187,000 annually (actual salary determined by scope, complexity, location, skills, education, training, credentials, experience, and other conditions of employment).

• Health, Dental, Vision insurance
• Life and Disability insurance
• Wellness programs
• Paid Time Off
• 401(k) and Profit‑Sharing plans