Fidelity Security Life Insurance Company, and its affiliates (“FSL”), provide insurance and insurance-related services to clients, corporations, employers and individuals. These services include providing benefits through innovative life and health insurance plans, financial services, and customized insurance products for niche markets.
Position Summary
The Enterprise Architect aligns FTJ’s technology investments, applications, platforms, data, integrations, and cloud services with business strategy. This position serves as a trusted advisor to business and IT leadership, establishing the future-state technology roadmap and guiding decisions to modernize the technology portfolio, reduce technical debt, control cost, and manage risk.
Key Responsibilities
Technology Strategy and Roadmaps
- Develop and maintain FTJ’s enterprise technology strategy and three-to-five-year roadmap.
- Translate business priorities into actionable technology, modernization, and investment plans.
- Evaluate technology trends and recommend opportunities that improve business value, efficiency, customer experience, or risk management.
- Advise leadership on technology investments, platform direction, and future-state capabilities.
Application Portfolio and Technical Debt
- Establish and maintain the enterprise application portfolio as FTJ’s authoritative system of record.
- Document application ownership, business value, cost, lifecycle, dependencies, criticality, supportability, and risk.
- Lead application rationalization to identify opportunities to invest, modernize, migrate, consolidate, replace, tolerate, or retire.
- Develop application health and technical debt scorecards that support investment prioritization.
- Identify unsupported technologies, key-person dependencies, and other operational risks requiring remediation.
Architecture and Technology Governance
- Establish practical architecture principles, standards, reference patterns, and decision frameworks.
- Review major technology investments, application acquisitions, integrations, cloud services, and modernization initiatives.
- Promote consistency across applications, platforms, data, integrations, security controls, and cloud environments.
- Partner with Application Development, Infrastructure and IT Operations, Security, PMO, data teams, business leaders, and vendors to connect strategy with execution.
Cloud, Data, Integration, and Innovation
- Define strategic direction for Azure, application hosting, enterprise data, APIs, integrations, and platform selection.
- Support cloud governance focused on cost, security, resilience, supportability, and architectural consistency.
- Evaluate AI, automation, analytics, and emerging technologies through controlled, business-justified initiatives.
- Balance innovation with operational readiness, risk, cost, and long-term sustainability.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, business, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Ten or more years of progressive IT experience, including five or more years in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, technology strategy, or IT leadership.
- Demonstrated experience with technology roadmaps, application portfolio management, modernization, technical debt, and architecture governance.
- Strong understanding of enterprise applications, Azure or comparable cloud platforms, data architecture, integration patterns, and security principles.
- Ability to influence decisions and communicate effectively with executives, business leaders, technical teams, and vendors.
- Insurance, financial services, employee benefits, or other regulated-industry experience preferred.
- Familiarity with TOGAF or similar architecture practices preferred, with an emphasis on pragmatic application rather than process overhead.
Measures of Success
- A complete application portfolio with defined ownership, lifecycle, cost, dependency, and risk information.
- An approved enterprise technology roadmap aligned with FTJ’s business priorities.
- Actionable application health, technical debt, and lifecycle reporting.
- Measurable progress in application rationalization and legacy modernization.
- Reduced redundancy, unsupported technology, operational complexity, and concentrated knowledge risk.
- More consistent, transparent, and cost-conscious technology investment decisions.
We offer comprehensive benefits to full-time employees including company-paid medical, STD, LTD and life insurance plus voluntary dental, vision, life/AD&D insurance, 401(k) with company matching, generous paid time off and much more.
We encourage applicants of all ages and experience, as we do not discriminate on the basis of an applicant’s age.
ALL OFFERS OF EMPLOYMENT ARE CONTINGENT UPON THE PASSING OF A DRUG SCREEN AND BACKGROUND CHECK.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, business, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- Ten or more years of progressive IT experience
- Five or more years in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, technology strategy, or IT leadership
- Experience with technology roadmaps, application portfolio management, modernization, technical debt, and architecture governance
- Strong understanding of enterprise applications, Azure or comparable cloud platforms, data architecture, integration patterns, and security principles
- Ability to influence decisions and communicate effectively with executives, business leaders, technical teams, and vendors
- Insurance, financial services, employee benefits, or other regulated-industry experience
- Familiarity with TOGAF or similar architecture practices
What We Do
Forrest T. Jones & Company (FTJ) is an insurance agency and administrator that was established in 1953 to provide insurance products and other financial services to members of associations and other affinity groups. FTJ currently provides insurance programs to more than 80 national associations and employer groups with more than 1.5 million members. We work with more than 30 of the nation’s leading insurance companies to provide members / employees with access to high quality insurance plans—many with special features and benefits not readily available elsewhere—at favorable group rates. As the flagship of an enterprise that includes two life insurance companies, a reinsurance company, and a FINRA broker/dealer, FTJ offers an exceptional level of strength and flexibility for our association and affinity group clients. Throughout the years, FTJ has worked hand-in-hand with its clients in adding value to member and customer programs through quality insurance products. FTJ has been family owned and managed since its inception, and we pride ourselves on maintaining close, personal relationships with our clients. We strive to meet their needs in a dynamic environment by applying the latest technology, marketing expertise, and our relationships in the insurance industry to attain the best possible insurance plans for their members and support those plans with old-fashioned, high-touch personal service. The company is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri.
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