POSITION SUMMARY
The Principal Enterprise Architect is responsible for defining and governing the enterprise application strategy across all business systems, platforms, and modernization initiatives. This role will guide future-state architecture, reduce technical debt, and ensure both internal and vendor-delivered solutions align with long-term business objectives. Lastly, the Principal Enterprise Architect plays a critical part in maintaining organizational control over technology direction, ensuring the company's long-term business and technology objectives are met while enabling scalable, maintainable, and effective business capabilities.
PRINCIPAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
- Establish the enterprise architecture vision, standards, target-state roadmaps, and reference patterns.
- Serve as the final authority for architectural decisions, complex designs, data strategy, and technology tradeoffs.
- Identify architectural risks and technical debt to maximize operational efficiency while reducing risk.
- Guide implementation by overseeing strategic initiatives across core enterprise systems and modern cloud/integration platforms.
- Partner with and challenge implementation and product vendors to maintain internal ownership of the technology direction.
- Standardize integrations: Define enterprise API, data exchange, and interoperability standards.
- Partner with IT and business leaders to translate corporate strategy into technology roadmaps.
- Coach architects, technical leads, and developers on design best practices.
- Ensure technology solutions align with enterprise architecture principles, business objectives, scalability requirements, and operational goals.
- Serve as the final architectural escalation point for complex design decisions and technology tradeoff discussions.
- Evaluate emerging technologies, platform capabilities, and architectural approaches that may benefit the organization.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field (equivalent experience/certifications considered).
- 15+ years in progressive technology roles (software engineering, solution architecture, or enterprise architecture).
- Proven track record of establishing architectural standards, design review practices, and multi-year roadmaps.
- Deep expertise in modern integration patterns, APIs, event-driven architectures, cloud technologies, and Agile/DevOps.
- Significant experience with core insurance functional areas and platforms is strongly preferred.
- Experience with Duck Creek technologies is highly preferred
- Experience reviewing, guiding, and approving solution designs for large-scale technology implementations.
- Strong leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and executive presentation skills.
- Ability to work autonomously and is self-directed in accomplishing deliverables.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field (or equivalent experience/certifications)
- 15+ years in progressive technology roles (software engineering, solution architecture, or enterprise architecture)
- Proven track record establishing architectural standards, design review practices, and multi-year roadmaps
- Deep expertise in modern integration patterns, APIs, and event-driven architectures
- Experience with cloud technologies
- Experience with Agile and DevOps practices
- Experience reviewing, guiding, and approving solution designs for large-scale implementations
- Strong leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and executive presentation skills
- Ability to work autonomously and be self-directed
- Significant experience with core insurance functional areas and platforms
- Experience with Duck Creek technologies
What We Do
The California FAIR Plan is a private association comprised of all insurers authorized to write property insurance in California. The FAIR Plan was established in July 1968 following the 1960s brush fires and riots as the state’s insurer of last resort, created to ensure access to basic property insurance for California homeowners who have been unable to obtain homeowners insurance from the voluntary market for reasons outside of their control. The FAIR Plan will write fire insurance coverage for these homeowners, regardless of a property’s wildfire risk. The FAIR Plan is committed to strengthening consumer choices in the voluntary insurance market, while ensuring that all homeowners, including those who live in areas threatened by wildfires, can obtain basic property coverage and the peace of mind they deserve
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