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Technology
The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.
$169,400.00 - $279,600.00
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Collaborative Environment, Transformational Projects, and a Growing Team!
As a member of AI and Emerging Technology Architecture, you'll be joining a strategic and collaborative team that is passionate about transforming our business and technology capabilities and paving the way for best-in-class solutions.
As a Lead Architect, you will collaborate with senior Technology and Business leaders and apply your deep technical proficiency and visionary thinking to architect AI systems that drive business value while maintaining ethical standards. In this role we will look to you to:
• Apply your hands-on expertise in AI/ML, Generative AI, and Agentic AI systems — including autonomous agent design, multi-agent orchestration frameworks (LangChain, Strands, Crew AI), Model Context Protocol (MCP), and Agent2Agent integration — to architect scalable, production-grade AI solutions across the enterprise
• Provide consulting expertise to division and domain architects, driving architecture alignment across lines of business and serving as a champion for establishing an enterprise AI solutions architecture practice
• Align AI platform capabilities to the strategic needs of business groups — spanning LLM selection and routing, RAG pipelines, memory systems, and tool/function-calling patterns — while promoting reusability, interoperability, and responsible AI design
• Help establish governance, risk, and control processes that ensure safe, compliant, and sustainable AI deployments, informed by frameworks such as the EU AI Act, GDPR, NAIC, and NIST AI RMF, and grounded in strong AI ethics and bias mitigation principles
Technical Expertise & Education:
Bachelor’s degree in technology-related field or equivalent, with 8 to 10 years of architecture experience.
Advanced level architecture and recent hands-on strong engineering experience with modern technologies.
Successful execution of complex, large scale technology strategies.
Leadership & Influence:
Advanced leadership skills with the ability to leverage cross-functional networks to collaborate with architecture and engineering leaders on problem-solving, build company-wide credibility, prioritize critical architectural challenges, and strengthen the Architecture organization through knowledge sharing, mentoring, and creating development opportunities for team members.
Strategic & Business Acumen:
Extensive experience working in an agile operational model.
Advanced experience supporting transformational change. Able to adjust plans, priorities and strategies in response to changing circumstances.
Experience developing technology target states and roadmaps that align to short- and long-term business goals.
Insurance technology experience preferred.
Strong understanding of value creation and business capability models.
Strong knowledge of the insurance industry.
Advanced experience identifying and analyzing current/future problems and opportunities, evaluating information to understand root causes, and exploring alternative solutions for effective decision-making.
Proven ability to work collaboratively with colleagues to achieve mutually responsible results.
Extensive experience exercising sound judgment, making decisions and committing to a position.
Advanced and effective verbal, written and listening communication skills.
Proven track record defining scalable, production-grade AI systems, including distributed and parallel processing architectures
Hands-on expertise in AI/ML development and deployment, with deep knowledge of ML algorithms, neural network architectures, and optimization techniques
Strong mathematical foundation in linear algebra, statistics, and probability theory, supporting rigorous model design and evaluation
Experience with MLOps & AI Ops practices and CI/CD pipelines for AI/ML systems
Hands-on experience with agentic coding tools such as Claude Enterprise/CLI/Code, OpenAI Codex, and GitHub Copilot
Hands-on experience with Generative AI foundation — including transformer architectures, LLMs, diffusion models, VAEs, GANs, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and RLHF
Experience with multimodal AI systems
Experience building autonomous AI systems with planning and reasoning capabilities, including reinforcement learning and decision-making frameworks
Hands-on experience with agentic patterns — tool use, function calling, API integration, memory systems, RAG, vector databases, and multi-agentic orchestration
Hands-on or working experience with agent orchestration frameworks (LangChain, Strands, Crew AI) and protocols including MCP and Agent2Agent
Deep experience with cloud AI services AWS Bedrock including AgentCore (optional: Azure Foundry/Agent 365, or GCP/Gemini AI), including SaaS AI and agentic capabilities
Knowledge of AI ethics, bias mitigation, responsible AI practices, and regulatory frameworks (EU AI Act, GDPR)
Experience with AI governance frameworks and model risk management
Travelers is an equal opportunity employer. We value the unique abilities and talents each individual brings to our organization and recognize that we benefit in numerous ways from our differences.
In accordance with local law, candidates seeking employment in Colorado are not required to disclose dates of attendance at or graduation from educational institutions.
If you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email so we may assist you.
Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting.
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