Enterprise Architect (Azure)

What part will you play? If you're looking for a place where you can make a meaningful difference, you've found it. Because, at Markel, the work you do gives people the confidence to move forward and seize opportunities. Whether you're wild about horses, bananas for boats or driven by data, you'll find your fit amongst our global community of optimists and problem-solvers. We're always pushing each other to go further because we believe that when we realize our potential, we can help others reach theirs.

Join us and play your part in something special!

This role will help plan, architect, and transform Markel's technology.

Architecture Advancement:

• Produce architectures that align with the business goals and requirements, as well as the enterprise architecture principles and standards.
• Design solutions that run full stack on Azure (PaaS, Serverless, Functions, API Management)
• Design complex hybrid-cloud solutions
• Roll up sleeves and write code to create proof of concepts using Python or .NET

Architecture Consulting:

• Break down silos and build an environment where people and technology thrive together to achieve more than would separately
• Produce architectures to communicate direction to business partners, IT stakeholders, Solution Architects, and Engineering Leads.
• Conduct research on emerging technologies, trends, and innovations that can enhance the enterprise architecture and support the business objectives.
• Create crisp, excellent, and compelling presentations that can be catered to work up and down several organizational levels.
• Generating ideas for Proof of Concept / Proof of Value projects that demonstrate the feasibility and viability of new solutions or approaches

Architecture Governance:

• As voting member of Technical Architecture Committee will review designs to ensure they fit with the standards and direction of company.
• Write standards, patterns, and guardrails for multiple domains.

Potential to grow into a leadership role and manage employees.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is passionate about architecture and wants to work on challenging projects with a talented team of professionals. If you are looking for a rewarding career in architecture, then this could be the perfect opportunity for you!

Work Experience

• 15+ years of technology experience
• At least 2 project experience in Domain Driven Design techniques for Microservices architecture, preferable in Insurance/Finance domain
• At least 1-2 project experiences in Microservice design patterns for implementation of Performance, Resilience, Security
• Experience in frameworks related to Observability, Caching, Integration with Event Bus Platforms, Key Vault etc
• Experience with Build tools like Azure DevOps, Terraform, and others to drive CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Azure

• Insurance experience a plus
• Ability to travel to other offices across USA

Must be authorized to work in the U.S., and not require sponsorship now or in the future.

The base salary offered for the successful candidate will be based on compensable factors such as job-relevant education, job-relevant experience, training, licensure, demonstrated competencies, geographic location, and other factors. The salary for the position is $170-180k with a 45% bonus potential.

Who we are:

Markel Group (NYSE - MKL) a fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory and investment operations around the world.

We're all about people | We win together | We strive for better

We enjoy the everyday | We think further

What's in it for you:

In keeping with the values of the Markel Style, we strive to support our employees in living their lives to the fullest at home and at work.

• We offer competitive benefit programs that help meet our diverse and changing environment as well as support our employees' needs at all stages of life.
• All full-time employees have the option to select from multiple health, dental and vision insurance plan options and optional life, disability, and AD&D insurance.
• We also offer a 401(k) with employer match contributions, an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, PTO, corporate holidays and floating holidays, parental leave.
• Markel offers hybrid working schedules of 3 days in the office and 2 days remote.

Are you ready to play your part?

Choose 'Apply Now' to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.

The base salary offered for the successful candidate will be based on compensable factors such as job-relevant education, job-relevant experience, training, licensure, demonstrated competencies, geographic location, and other factors.

The base salary offered for the successful candidate will be based on compensable factors such as job-relevant education, job-relevant experience, training, licensure, demonstrated competencies, geographic location, and other factors. The salary for the position is $170K - $185K with a 45% bonus potential.

Caution: Employment scams

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• All legitimate job postings with Markel will be posted on No other URL should be trusted for job Markel Group Careers.
• All legitimate communications with Markel recruiters will come from Markel.com email addresses.

We would also ask that you please report any job employment scams related to Markel to [email protected].

Markel is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of any protected characteristic. This includes race; color; sex; religion; creed; national origin or place of birth; ancestry; age; disability; affectional or sexual orientation; gender expression or identity; genetic information, sickle cell trait, or atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait; refusal to submit to genetic tests or make genetic test results available; medical condition; citizenship status; pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; marital status, civil union status, domestic partnership status, familial status, or family responsibilities; military or veteran status, including unfavorable discharge from military service; personal appearance, height, or weight; matriculation or political affiliation; expunged juvenile records; arrest and court records where prohibited by applicable law; status as a victim of domestic or sexual violence; public assistance status; order of protection status; status as a smoker or nonsmoker; membership or activity in local commissions; the use or nonuse of lawful products off employer premises during non-work hours; declining to attend meetings or participate in communications about religious or political matters; or any other classification protected by applicable law.

Should you require any accommodation through the application process, please send an e-mail to the [email protected].