Enterprise Architect

The Tech & Data department ( 200 employees across the globe) provides products, services, and support to all SCOR Group worldwide. Its 2 key challenges today are to successfully implement its new Target Operating Model (TOM), to be supported by an ambitious pluri-annual internalization plan to deliver innovative products and services to its clients.

The Tech & Data organization is an Agile matricial organization relying on 4 pillars:

• Data and System Engineering, made of the following teams: Data Center of Excellence, Products and Systems Engineering and Enterprise Architecture
• Management & Control (M&C) & Corporate Systems, made of teams supporting Crews and Transversal Functional Domains: Governance, T&D Operating Model Implementation, Security & Compliance, Financial Control, Sourcing & Vendor Management, Governance, and Processes
• Technical, made of teams dedicated to IT Operations, Network, Cloud, Workplace & Cloud Productivity Services
• Crews and Transversal Functional Domains

Crews are supported by Chapters (System Engineering, Architecture, DevOps, ) and both Technical and M&C-C teams are fully dedicated to the delivery of SCOR products, services and support.

Job Summary

As a member of the Architecture team, the Enterprise Architect is accountable for proactively leading technology transformation activities and driving targeted business outcomes. His / Her main duties notably include developing ways to integrate the business' IT systems, creating and implementing enterprise architecture models and suggesting improvements to current internal functions and IT processes.

Key duties and responsibilities

Under the responsibility of the Head of Architecture, the Enterprise Architect key activities are to:

• Define, implement and execute the processes for the definition, maintenance, and conformance management of the Enterprise architecture
  • Update and maintain the key enterprise architecture deliverables (architecture principles, capability map, application referentials)
  • Establish and maintain contacts within Crews / Squads and information system programs to understand business activities and business drivers, business requirements, solutions strategies, alternatives, etc., being considered and/or implemented
  • Manage inter-program and inter-project issues
  • Organize a regular communication on the enterprise architecture function both within the Tech & Data community, and the business functions
  • Help prepare and facilitate Architecture Committees.
• With clear architectural models and the help of Solution Architects, act as a single point of entry with the Crews / Squads and communicate with the other Crews' Enterprise Architects to ensure the development or coordination of the following deliverables:
  • Develop the Enterprise Architecture
  • Coordinate all Enterprise Architecture activities locally and globally
  • Develop and coordinate Architecture Plans
  • Help / advise Crew Leads (Business and IT) to design a functional and information technology roadmap, the roadmap being supposed to create a bridge between context and concept
  • Assist in aligning enterprise initiatives with the Enterprise Architecture
  • Audit compliance within the Enterprise Architecture standards
  • Serve as an advisor to senior business management on business and information integration strategies

Required experience & competencies

• years of delivering enterprise-level architecture strategies and standards, preferably in a complex, global organization
• Expertise in the design and architecture of complex IT systems, gained within a consultancy, systems integrator, financial services or similar organization, and through the experience of a range of systems delivery programmes and projects.

Technical Skills

• Ability to deliver high quality enterprise technology strategy and technology architecture work
• Industry awareness of key methodologies, approaches and market trends, including enterprise architecture frameworks, business and technology capabilities and solutions, internal and external integration, and agile development.
• Strong experience of Business & IT agile ways of working
• Strong knowledge/understanding of modern software architecture, development, and methodology
• Ability to estimate business, risk and financial impacts of architecture choices and orientations

Behavioral & Management Skills:

• Pronounced analytical and conceptual capabilities coupled with the ability to present complex situations in a clear way
• Capacity to navigate in a matricial and international environment
• Great communication skills and the ability to influence at a senior level

Required Education

• Degree in Computer Science, Management of Information Systems, or related field required

As a leading global reinsurer, SCOR offers its clients a diversified and innovative range of reinsurance and insurance solutions and services to control and manage risk. Applying "The Art & Science of Risk," SCOR uses its industry-recognized expertise and cutting-edge financial solutions to serve its clients and contribute to the welfare and resilience of society in around 160 countries worldwide.

Working at SCOR means engaging with some of the best minds in the industry - actuaries, data scientists, underwriters, risk modelers, engineers, and many others - as we work together to find solutions to pressing challenges facing societies.

As an international company, our common culture is defined by "The SCOR Way." Serving both to build momentum that drives the Group forward and as a compass to guide our actions and choices, The SCOR Way is anchored by five core values, reflecting the input of employees at all levels of the Group. We care about clients, people, and societies. We perform with integrity. We act with courage. We encourage open minds. And we thrive through collaboration.