Senior Architect, Salesforce

Company: The Travelers Companies, Inc.
Location: Hartford
Posted on: May 24, 2025

Job Description:

Who Are We?

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Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That's the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 160 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.

Compensation Overview

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.

Salary Range

$135,700.00 - $223,900.00

Target Openings

1

What Is the Opportunity?

Collaborative Environment, Transformational Projects, and a Growing Team!

As a member of Enterprise Technology Solutions, 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 Senior Architect for Salesforce within the Enterprise Architecture organization, you will collaborate with senior Technology and Business leaders and apply your knowledge of Salesforce platforms and ecosystem to influence and innovate solutions that impact the business. In this role we will look to you to:

--- Apply your broad Salesforce/CRM architecture experience by helping to support a strategic initiative.
--- Provide consulting to our division architects and be a champion for helping to grow an enterprise Salesforce architecture practice.
--- Help to align capabilities within Salesforce to fit the needs of our business groups and look for opportunities to promote reusability and commonality.

What Will You Do?

Architecture responsibility within a major segment of Technology Architecture in support of the Sale and Service business capabilities
Works with the Senior leadership within Technology and Business to develop architecture priorities and direction to enable business imperatives
Advocate for modern architecture principles and technology modernization.
Establishes strategic technology direction and architecture vision for an organization.
Drives continuous technology transformation to minimize technical debt.
Looks for opportunities to capitalize on technology advances through analysis of key industry and technology trends to assess potential impact on the enterprise.
Defines and leads technology proof of concepts to ensure feasibility of architecture solutions.
Engage in hands-on prototyping of new technology solutions.
Partner with Software Engineering to execute proof of technologies.
Defines target state technology architecture and roadmaps.
Ensures alignment of IT initiatives with the target state
Builds strong partnership with engineering to ensure proper alignment of skills with technology direction.
Prepares and delivers comprehensive communications to convey architectural direction and how it aligns with enterprise strategy.
Continuously improve efficiency and effectiveness of the architecture
Provided mentorship to architects.
Perform other responsibilities as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

Bachelor's in technology related field or equivalent with 5+ years of technology Architecture experience and experience in Salesforce Architecture including Sales, Service, CRMA, and Marketing Clouds.
Highly beneficial to have Salesforce product certifications, including architecture certifications
Proven experience in Salesforce platform, LWC, Apex, Integrations, Automation features, Sales, Service and Financial Service cloud.
Proven experience to assess and monitor production platform health, recommend improvements, and address technical debt.
Strong experience with integration patterns, data, and data mastery.
Experience leveraging and integrating Contact Center Technologies for Service Cloud including Genesys to deliver excellent user and customer experiences.
Experience with multi-division complex sales and service landscapes and implementations.
Experience with omni/multi-channel implementations including voice, chat, email, chat bots in Salesforce.
Experience leveraging latest technologies including AI to improve sales and service experiences and efficiencies.
Provided mentorship to architects
Organizational and transformational experience in an agile operating model
Establishes strategic technology direction and architecture vision for an organization
Strong proven Software Engineering experience
Developed technology target state, roadmaps that aligned to Short- and Long-term business goals
Proven track record of influencing senior leadership
Insurance technology experience
Strong grasp of value creation and business capability models
Innovation and Continuous Improvement
Experience with large-scale technology platforms and cloud data technologies.
Experience with AWS, APIs, accelerators, and DevSecOps.
Cloud Architecture Certification (AWS, GCP, or Azure) or strong cloud architecture experience.
Experience developing technology roadmaps aligned with business goals.
Experience in technology modernization, including cloud-native migration and API strategy.
Strong proven Software Engineering experience
Hands on experience within the last 3 years.
Good understanding of security.
Experience in agile operating models and insurance technology.

What is a Must Have?

Bachelor's degree or its equivalent in work experience.
Six years of experience in enterprise, application, and/or information architecture within a line of business or enterprise area

What Is in It for You?

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.

Employment Practices

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.

To learn more about our comprehensive benefit programs please visit http://careers.travelers.com/life-at-travelers/benefits/.

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