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Denver CO USA
Hybrid
220K-250K Annually
Senior level
Information Technology • Insurance • Software
Our purpose is to simplify and automate the insurance life cycle so that our customers can focus on what matters most.
The Role
The Sr. Director Enterprise Architecture will develop an Enterprise Architecture strategy and lead teams to implement innovative technical solutions for a SaaS business.
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$220000 - $250000 / year + Bonus
Vertafore is a leading technology company whose innovative software solutions are advancing the insurance industry. Our suite of products provides solutions to our customers that help them better manage their business boost their productivity and efficiencies and lower costs while strengthening relationships.
Our mission is to move InsurTech forward by putting people at the heart of the industry. We are leading the way with product innovation technology partnerships and focusing on customer success.
Our fast-paced and collaborative environment inspires us to create think and challenge each other in ways that make our solutions and our teams better.
We are headquartered in Denver Colorado with offices across the U.S. Canada and India.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Are you ready to disrupt an industry? We are looking for an experienced thought leader with a passion for delivering forward thinking solutions around enterprise architecture. Reporting directly to our CTO you will be tasked with influencing all aspects of our SaaS based business delivering innovative designs to take Vertafore to the next level. You will often wear multiple hats and get a holistic multi-faceted career-building experience working with top talent.
Core Requirements and Responsibilities:
Essential job functions included but are not limited to the following:
Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
Qualifications:
Additional Requirements and Details:
THE VERTAFORE STORY
Over the past 50 years Vertafore has advanced the entire insurance distribution channel with the best software solutions in the industry. Today we're proud to say hundreds of thousands of Vertafore users rely on our solutions to write business faster reduce costs and fuel growth by increasing collaboration and streamlining processes. Vertafore leads the industry with secure cloud-based mobile products that provide superior reporting and analytics delivering actionable insight- right when customers need it most. We partner with other leading technology companies to deliver comprehensive solutions to improve the way our customers do business and serve their customers.
The Vertafore Way
Insurance is about relationships and technology should make those relationships stronger. That's why at Vertafore it's our mission to transform the way the industry operates by putting people at the heart of insurance technology. By focusing on our customers becoming better every day and delivering results you can see we provide the level of trust and security that insurance is all about.• Bias to Action: We're united by an innate drive to take action and make a difference in the technology and insurance spaces.• Win Together: We work together as one team showing empathy and respect along the way.• Show Up Curious: We work to challenge one another to push boundaries and think beyond the box.• Say It Do It: We honor every one of our commitments because integrity is important to us.• Customer Success is Our Success: We cultivate authentic relationships and follow up by actively listening to their needs.• We Love Insurance: We appreciate the impact insurance has on the world.
Is this role not an exact fit for you? Keep an eye on our Careers Page for other positions!
Vertafore is a drug free workplace and conducts preemployment drug and background screenings .
The selected candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all the job responsibilities duties skill or working conditions. In addition this document does not create an employment contract implied or otherwise other than an "at will" relationship.
Vertafore strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race color religion sex gender identity pregnancy national origin ancestry citizenship age marital status physical disability mental disability medical condition sexual orientation genetic information or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.
We do not accept resumes from agencies headhunters or other suppliers who have not signed a formal agreement with us.
Vertafore is a Flexible First working environment which allows team members to work from home as often as you'd like while using our offices as a place for collaboration community and teambuilding. There are times you may be asked to come into an office and/or travel for specific meetings for a specific business purpose and this varies by job responsibilities.
Why Vertafore is the place for you: *Canada Only
Why Vertafore is the place for you: *US Only
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all the job responsibilities duties skill or working conditions. In addition this document does not create an employment contract implied or otherwise other than an "at will" relationship.
Vertafore strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race color religion sex gender identity pregnancy national origin ancestry citizenship age marital status physical disability mental disability medical condition sexual orientation genetic information or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.
The Professional Services (PS) and Customer Success (CX) bonus plans are a quarterly monetary bonus plan based upon individual and practice performance against specific business metrics. Eligibility is determined by several factors including: start date good standing in the company and actives status at time of payout.
The Vertafore Incentive Plan (VIP) is an annual monetary bonus for eligible employees based on both individual and company performance. Eligibility is determined by several factors including: start date good standing in the company and actives status at time of payout.
Commission plans are tailored to each sales role but common components include quota MBO's and ABPMs. Salespeople receive their formal compensation plan within 30 days of hire.
Vertafore is a drug free workplace and conducts preemployment drug and background screenings.
We do not accept resumes from agencies headhunters or other suppliers who have not signed a formal agreement with us.
We want to make sure our recruiting process is accessible for everyone. if you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process please contact [email protected]
Just a note this contact information is for accommodation requests only.
Vertafore is a leading technology company whose innovative software solutions are advancing the insurance industry. Our suite of products provides solutions to our customers that help them better manage their business boost their productivity and efficiencies and lower costs while strengthening relationships.
Our mission is to move InsurTech forward by putting people at the heart of the industry. We are leading the way with product innovation technology partnerships and focusing on customer success.
Our fast-paced and collaborative environment inspires us to create think and challenge each other in ways that make our solutions and our teams better.
We are headquartered in Denver Colorado with offices across the U.S. Canada and India.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Are you ready to disrupt an industry? We are looking for an experienced thought leader with a passion for delivering forward thinking solutions around enterprise architecture. Reporting directly to our CTO you will be tasked with influencing all aspects of our SaaS based business delivering innovative designs to take Vertafore to the next level. You will often wear multiple hats and get a holistic multi-faceted career-building experience working with top talent.
Core Requirements and Responsibilities:
Essential job functions included but are not limited to the following:
- Architecture / Strategy
- Collaborates with the CTO members of the Technology Leadership team Principal Engineers and Business Stakeholders to develop an Enterprise Architecture Vision & Strategy aligned with Company's company objectives.
- Works with various architects around the business partners and our PE firm in delivering successful strategy planning and implementation of technical capabilities and platforms.
- Engage and develop relationships with leaders across the global organization to understand functional business needs and identify opportunities to introduce new technical solutions.
- Aligns closely with our Product Management and Engineering teams to ideate scope plan estimate coordinate derisk roadmaps for our consumer facing experiences and tools.
- Drives thought leadership within the organization with presentations and architectural models that show how the current and future technology needs of the organization align to our company mission and the growth of our business.
- Delivery and Execution
- Define maintain and evangelize the company's current and target platform strategy with reference architectures business-system capability map solution integration requirements and deployment guidelines.
- Drives adoption of new technology across the organization by delivering Proof of Concepts with supporting design diagrams technical documentation business impact analysis and ROI.
- Create technical requirements and global architecture to govern the security scalability sustainability cost and overall quality of our infrastructure systems content and data.
- While this position is not expected to be an individual contributor on our production systems on a consistent basis a person filling this role is expected to be hands-on enough to be able to jump in and help our teams with technical issues
- Team Building and Management
- Attract hire & retain highly skilled architects.
- Assessing skills & building career development plans for direct reports.
- Performance management through alignment/setting of objectives/deadlines for direct reports and cross-functional teams.
- Acts as an expert advisor coach and mentor across the technology organization on latest architecture principles and practices.
- Acts as a point of escalation for teams facing complex technical challenges
- Other duties as assigned
Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
Qualifications:
- 15+ years of experience in application development software & solution architecture with increasing responsibilities with at least 5 of those managing teams of 5+ architects or engineers.
- Advanced degree in Computer Science Mathematics Engineering or related field.
- Prior experience in SaaS platforms generating over $100M in software revenue
- A passion for mentoring and building strong technical leaders.
- Demonstrated ability to transform teams and technology in a rapidly growing environment.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams and delivering projects using Agile development practices.
- Experience with Continuous Delivery tools and DevOps practices.
- Experience with Data Technologies: Spark Tableau AWS EMR S3 and other AWS Data Tech.
- Experience with Java Python SQL Ruby .Net C++
- Experience with Serverless & microservices architecture.
- Experience with Containers: Docker Kubernetes
- Strong API design and implementation skills.
- Strong presentation skills and written & spoken communication skills.
- Abreast of the latest and greatest technology advancements in web and native mobile platforms.
- Understanding of Big Data architectures data science / Machine Learning platforms and Business Intelligence Visualization tools.
- Experience with the implementation and integration of business systems across the Accounting Supply Chain and Manufacturing domains is a plus.
- Experience with physical retail technology solutions is a plus.
Additional Requirements and Details:
- Travel required up to 10% of the time.
- Located and working from an office location.
- Occasional lifting and/or moving up to 10 pounds.
- Frequent repetitive hand and arm movements required to operate a computer.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision (working on a computer etc.).
- Frequent sitting and/or standing.
THE VERTAFORE STORY
Over the past 50 years Vertafore has advanced the entire insurance distribution channel with the best software solutions in the industry. Today we're proud to say hundreds of thousands of Vertafore users rely on our solutions to write business faster reduce costs and fuel growth by increasing collaboration and streamlining processes. Vertafore leads the industry with secure cloud-based mobile products that provide superior reporting and analytics delivering actionable insight- right when customers need it most. We partner with other leading technology companies to deliver comprehensive solutions to improve the way our customers do business and serve their customers.
The Vertafore Way
Insurance is about relationships and technology should make those relationships stronger. That's why at Vertafore it's our mission to transform the way the industry operates by putting people at the heart of insurance technology. By focusing on our customers becoming better every day and delivering results you can see we provide the level of trust and security that insurance is all about.• Bias to Action: We're united by an innate drive to take action and make a difference in the technology and insurance spaces.• Win Together: We work together as one team showing empathy and respect along the way.• Show Up Curious: We work to challenge one another to push boundaries and think beyond the box.• Say It Do It: We honor every one of our commitments because integrity is important to us.• Customer Success is Our Success: We cultivate authentic relationships and follow up by actively listening to their needs.• We Love Insurance: We appreciate the impact insurance has on the world.
Is this role not an exact fit for you? Keep an eye on our Careers Page for other positions!
Vertafore is a drug free workplace and conducts preemployment drug and background screenings .
The selected candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all the job responsibilities duties skill or working conditions. In addition this document does not create an employment contract implied or otherwise other than an "at will" relationship.
Vertafore strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race color religion sex gender identity pregnancy national origin ancestry citizenship age marital status physical disability mental disability medical condition sexual orientation genetic information or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.
We do not accept resumes from agencies headhunters or other suppliers who have not signed a formal agreement with us.
Vertafore is a Flexible First working environment which allows team members to work from home as often as you'd like while using our offices as a place for collaboration community and teambuilding. There are times you may be asked to come into an office and/or travel for specific meetings for a specific business purpose and this varies by job responsibilities.
Why Vertafore is the place for you: *Canada Only
- The opportunity to work in a space where modern technology meets a stable and vital industry
- Medical vision & dental plans
- Life AD&D
- Short Term and Long Term Disability
- Pension Plan & Employer Match
- Maternity Paternity and Parental Leave
- Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP)
- Education Assistance
- Additional programs - Employee Referral and Internal Recognition
Why Vertafore is the place for you: *US Only
- The opportunity to work in a space where modern technology meets a stable and vital industry
- We have a Flexible First work environment! Our North America team members use our offices for collaboration community and team-building with members asked to sometimes come into an office and/or travel depending on job responsibilities. Other times our teams work from home or a similar environment.
- Medical vision & dental plans
- PPO & high-deductible options
- Health Savings Account & Flexible Spending Accounts Options:
- Health Care FSA
- Dental & Vision FSA
- Dependent Care FSA
- Commuter FSA
- Life AD&D (Basic & Supplemental) and Disability
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plain & Employer Match
- Supplemental Plans - Pet insurance Hospital Indemnity and Accident Insurance
- Parental Leave & Adoption Assistance
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Education & Legal Assistance
- Additional programs - Tuition Reimbursement Employee Referral Internal Recognition and Wellness
- Commuter Benefits (Denver)
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all the job responsibilities duties skill or working conditions. In addition this document does not create an employment contract implied or otherwise other than an "at will" relationship.
Vertafore strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race color religion sex gender identity pregnancy national origin ancestry citizenship age marital status physical disability mental disability medical condition sexual orientation genetic information or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.
The Professional Services (PS) and Customer Success (CX) bonus plans are a quarterly monetary bonus plan based upon individual and practice performance against specific business metrics. Eligibility is determined by several factors including: start date good standing in the company and actives status at time of payout.
The Vertafore Incentive Plan (VIP) is an annual monetary bonus for eligible employees based on both individual and company performance. Eligibility is determined by several factors including: start date good standing in the company and actives status at time of payout.
Commission plans are tailored to each sales role but common components include quota MBO's and ABPMs. Salespeople receive their formal compensation plan within 30 days of hire.
Vertafore is a drug free workplace and conducts preemployment drug and background screenings.
We do not accept resumes from agencies headhunters or other suppliers who have not signed a formal agreement with us.
We want to make sure our recruiting process is accessible for everyone. if you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process please contact [email protected]
Just a note this contact information is for accommodation requests only.
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The Company
HQ: Denver CO
2372 Employees
Year Founded: 1969
What We Do
We believe insurance is about relationships. And technology should only make them stronger. We exist to empower independent agents carriers and MGAs. To drive their success. Because their success is our success. And their ambitions for tomorrow are our goals for today. Since our inception we’ve been the technology backbone of the insurance industry. We began punching cards for independent agents over 50 years ago and turned this passion for technology into a relentless pursuit. Born of human-centric purpose we empower our customers with the technology to garner trust. Built to adapt we equip the insurance channel for the future—transforming business and relationships along the way. Where others see opposition we see opportunity. To look ahead. To modernize. To prepare our customers for what’s next—because we’re always thinking about it. Always innovating. Always building. Always creating. Quite simply…we love insurance. Because behind every policy—is a person. And we’re obsessed with powering the spirit of our industry.
Why Work With Us
Our team is bright and talented and we bring passion to the work we do every day and continually strive to improve. We’re a Flexible First work environment meaning team members work from home as often as they’d like while using our offices as a place for collaboration community and team building. We work hard and we have fun doing it!
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Our Flexible First working environment allows team members to work from home as often as they'd like while using our offices for collaboration and team building.
Typical time on-site: Flexible
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