AVP IT Management at Thehartford

Ideal for a senior IT leader with a background in architecture and engineering, this role demands experience in driving technical strategies and managing soluti

Work type: hybrid

Location: Charlotte, NC

Salary: $182,000 – $273,000/yr

Type: Full-time

Summary

Ideal for a senior IT leader with a background in architecture and engineering, this role demands experience in driving technical strategies and managing solution architecture resources. Candidates must be eligible to work in the US without sponsorship. **What makes it worth a look...** This full-time, hybrid position is with The Hartford in Charlotte, NC, offering a compensation range of $182,000 to $273,000 annually. It presents a chance to influence technology roadmaps and contribute to AI initiatives within the insurance sector. **You might be a good fit if you...** * Have a strong understanding of enterprise architecture standards and governance. * Can establish and scale engineering best practices including CI/CD and DevSecOps. * Are skilled in cloud-native and microservices-based architectures. * Possess experience in building and mentoring high-performance engineering teams.

Job Description

AVP IT Management - IM05AE

We’re determined to make a difference and are proud to be an insurance company that goes well beyond coverages and policies. Working here means having every opportunity to achieve your goals – and to help others accomplish theirs, too. Join our team as we help shape the future.   

The Hartford is hiring an AVP IT Management. This role will have a hybrid work schedule with the expectation of working from the Charlotte, NC office. Candidates must be eligible to work in the US without company sponsorship.Architecture Leadership & Governance

• Understand the GS Commercial Lines business products and ensure that the IT portfolio effectively supports and enables these products for the business.  

• Works with the Global Specialty CIO, extended IT leaders, business, and IT support teams to develop and maintain technical strategies and roadmaps that are aligned with the segment’s strategic direction to ensure that capabilities required by the business are enabled.

• Define and govern enterprise architecture standards to ensure consistency across Global Specialty platforms.

• Be a key technical contributor to the GenAI/AI uplift, acceleration, and execution in the Global Specialty IT organization.

• Review and guide solution designs, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and strategic roadmaps.

• Responsible for architecture governance of Global Specialty business segments investments to ensure they are compliant with IT strategy, architecture standards, and technology directions.

• Prepares and delivers comprehensive communications to convey IT architectural direction and how it aligns with enterprise strategies.

• Provides enterprise architectural leadership, guidance, and support for the broader architecture community.

• Has management responsibility of the solution architecture resources aligned to one or more business segments/value streams.

• Establish and scale engineering best practices for code quality, testing automation, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and resilience.

• Embed DevSecOps principles into the software delivery lifecycle, ensuring security and Introduce metrics-driven engineering maturity assessments to continuously improve productivity, quality, and speed-to-market.

• Foster engineering communities compliance from inception of practice to share knowledge, patterns, and reusable assets.

• Promote cloud-native and microservices-based architecture to improve agility, scalability, and maintainability.

• Build a high-performance engineering organization through talent acquisition, mentoring, and succession planning.

• Cultivate a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and technical excellence.

• Act as a visible engineering leader who inspires teams to deliver world-class technology solutions.

• Participates in the leadership of enterprise-wide IT services, ensuring quality solutions, while balancing technological and operational needs with financial, service and marketing needs of supported business division.

• Represents the IT Organization to new and existing clients and vendors, establishing service level agreements (SLAs) to meet organization, IT, and client requirements and expectations.

• Makes buy vs. build decisions relative to outsourcing vs. in-house provisioning of IT services and skills. Negotiates complex contracts, new vendor contracts, or those with significant financial implications to the business. Establishes strategic relationships with key IT suppliers, consultants, and partners.

• Establishes and maintains a high level of trust and confidence in the team's knowledge of, and concern for business issues.

The listed annualized base pay range is primarily based on analysis of similar positions in the external market. Actual base pay could vary and may be above or below the listed range based on factors including but not limited to performance, proficiency and demonstration of competencies required for the role. The base pay is just one component of The Hartford’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include short-term or annual bonuses, long-term incentives, and on-the-spot recognition. The annualized base pay range for this role is:

$182,000 - $273,000

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