Lead Architect, AI Solutions Architecture - Claim

Role Overview

• 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.
• 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.
• Demonstrate a strong passion for tracking and communicating the evolving AI platform roadmap — spanning foundation models, agentic frameworks, and emerging autonomous systems — while surfacing competitive landscape insights and highlighting opportunities and challenges that complement enterprise initiatives.
• Bring strong collaboration, communication, and mentoring skills to bridge complex AI concepts for non-technical stakeholders, build consensus across diverse teams, and foster a knowledge-sharing culture within the architecture community.

Requirements

• 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.
• Advanced leadership skills with the ability to leverage cross-functional networks to collaborate with architecture and engineering leaders on problem-solving.
• Extensive experience working in an agile operational model.
• Advanced experience supporting transformational change.
• Strong knowledge of the insurance industry.
• Proven track record defining scalable, production-grade AI systems, including distributed and parallel processing architectures.
• Strong mathematical foundation in linear algebra, statistics, and probability theory, supporting rigorous model design and evaluation.
• Hands-on experience with AI/ML development and deployment, with deep knowledge of ML algorithms, neural network architectures, and optimization techniques.
• Advanced effective verbal, written and listening communication skills.

Benefits

• Health Insurance: Employees and their eligible family members – including spouses, domestic partners, and children – are eligible for coverage from the first day of employment.
• Retirement: Travelers matches your 401(k) contributions dollar-for-dollar up to your first 5% of eligible pay, subject to an annual maximum. If you have student loan debt, you can enroll in the Paying it Forward Savings Program. When you make a payment toward your student loan, Travelers will make an annual contribution into your 401(k) account. You are also eligible for a Pension Plan that is 100% funded by Travelers.
• Paid Time Off: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 20 days Paid Time Off annually, plus nine paid company Holidays.
• Wellness Program: The Travelers wellness program is comprised of tools, discounts and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals and caregiving needs. In addition, our mental health program provides access to free professional counseling services, health coaching and other resources to support your daily life needs.
• Volunteer Encouragement: We have a deep commitment to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards program that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice.