Fortitude Reinsurance Company Ltd. (Fortitude Re) is one of the world’s leading providers of legacy reinsurance solutions. They work with the world’s leading insurance companies to help them execute comprehensive, transformational solutions for legacy Life & Annuity and P&C lines. Fortitude Re manages a general account of approximately $111 billion across life, annuity, and property & casualty insurance products. The company takes a long-term view on growth and is proud to be backed by a consortium of sophisticated institutional investors led by The Carlyle Group and T&D Insurance Group. Incorporated under the laws of Bermuda on January 1, 2017, Fortitude Re’s roots in the insurance industry and the experience of their leadership go back many decades. Fortitude Re’s leadership team has an average industry tenure of over 20 years, and an impressive track record of successfully managing the most complex legacy liabilities. Their deep insurance experience and proprietary risk modeling capabilities allow them to structure bespoke transactions that benefit both insurance companies and their policyholders. Fortitude Re continues to strengthen its ability to pursue further growth and provide innovative solutions for the global insurance industry. Click here for more information about Fortitude Re.
Position Summary
The Sr. Associate, Enterprise Architecture is responsible for partnering with business, data & analytics and engineering teams to create and oversee the technical design of end-to-end solutions that meet business objectives and align with enterprise standards. This role is responsible for collaborating closely with stakeholders to guide the design, build and documentation of solutions, ensuring each solution is robust, secure, and strategically aligned with broader enterprise goals. A key part of the role will be to maintain good documentation of the processes, design and build of systems, working closely with the teams responsible for the implementation.
What You Will Do:
Technical Solution Design
- Develop and refine solution architectures, integrating applications, data flows, and technology platforms.
- Collaborate with development and infrastructure teams to validate feasibility, scalability, and performance considerations.
Architecture Review & Guidance
- Lead or participate in Architecture Review Board (ARB) processes to ensure proposed solutions adhere to enterprise principles.
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of architecture principles, standards, and reference architectures.
- Provide a technical perspective in enterprise-wide governance processes, ensuring all solutions align with overall policies and guidelines.
- Define, socialize, and maintain business-architecture standards (naming conventions, modeling methods, documentation templates).
Process & Capability Modeling
- Document current-state and future-state process flows, value streams, and enterprise capability maps, by working with stakeholders from multiple domains.
- Identify optimization and innovation opportunities, prioritizing those that deliver quantifiable business value.
Data Architecture Support
- Support data modeling efforts, including conceptual and logical data models, data integration patterns, and data governance standards.
- Work with the teams to ensure consistent and accurate data definitions across the organization.
What You Will Have:
Required:
- Experience creating reference architecture diagrams with the use of any of the leading diagraming tools (Miro, Lucid, Draw.io, etc.) and ability to learn and adapt.
- Experience embedding security and compliance considerations into solution designs.
- Proficient in converting processes, relationships and concepts into diagrams.
- A good understanding of architecture patterns (e.g., microservices, event-driven, containerization) and integration methods (APIs, messaging).
- Ability to understand and describe cloud-based reference architecture diagrams and reasoning about them.
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure), with knowledge of key concepts, an understanding of how different cloud services and components connect together, their relative strengths and weaknesses, trade-offs and an opinion on best practices.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate complex concepts for business and technical audiences.
- Collaborative mindset for partnering across diverse teams and stakeholders.
- Prior experience programming in languages such as Python and SQL, with a good understanding of concepts, techniques and patterns involved.
Preferred:
- Experience in financial services, familiarity with buy-side investments concepts.
- Familiarity with reinsurance, actuarial and retrocession concepts.
The base salary range for this role is listed below and will be commensurate with candidate experience. Pay ranges for candidates may differ based on the cost of labor in that location. In addition to base salary, all employees are eligible for an annual bonus based on company and individual performance as well as a generous benefits package.
At Fortitude Re, our strength has always come from our people. Our success is deeply rooted in our ability to embrace the unique attributes, perspectives and experiences of every individual within our company. Fostering a culture of inclusion and belonging where everyone—regardless of background, race, religion, sexual orientation or gender identity—feels valued and respected is a foundation of our culture.
We are committed to being an equal opportunity employer and evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, diversity of thought and any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
To all recruitment agencies: Unless you have been requested to work on this position, or other positions with Fortitude Re, please do not forward any resumes to Fortitude Re employees. Fortitude Re is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
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