Enterprise Business Architect Principal | Hybrid

At Allianz Life, we are driven by our mission – we secure your future – and by our common goal of caring for tomorrow. We care for our employees by promoting an inclusive culture where everyone has the opportunity to grow and be rewarded for their success. We care for our customers by creating new products that help them protect their families and pursue their retirement goals. We care for our community by giving time, resources, and donations. And we care for the future by supporting sustainability, protecting the local environment, and promoting equality in our communities. 

What you do:

As the Enterprise Business Architect (EBA), you will play a critical role in shaping the strategic business and technology direction for our Life and Annuity (L&A) business. This position bridges business strategy and technology execution—ensuring alignment across operating models, capabilities, and systems that support the policy administration, new business, and claims value streams.

You will partner with senior business and IT leaders to define future-state business architectures, identify modernization opportunities, and guide transformation programs that enable agility, scalability, and customer-centric outcomes.

Strategic Alignment & Planning

• Partner with business and IT executives to translate strategic goals into target business architectures and capability roadmaps
• Define and maintain the enterprise business capability model for the L&A value chain (new business, underwriting, policy administration, billing, claims, and customer servicing)
• Align business capabilities with enterprise data, applications, and technology domains
• Support the definition of business cases and investment prioritization by providing architectural insights

Architecture Design & Governance

• Lead development of current- and target-state business architectures that support modernization and transformation efforts, including cloud migration, digital servicing, and AI/automation initiatives
• Ensure consistency and reuse across programs and business lines through architectural principles, standards, and framework
• Partner with solution and domain architects to ensure technology designs align to business capabilities and desired outcomes
• Provide architecture governance oversight during project execution to ensure adherence to enterprise strategy

Process & Capability Optimization

• Analyze and document business processes and information flows across new business, policy administration, and claims functions
• Identify opportunities for process simplification, digitization, and improved integration across platforms and third-party systems
• Champion enterprise platforms and reusable business services to drive efficiency and reduce redundancy

Stakeholder Collaboration & Communication

• Facilitate cross-functional workshops with business leaders, architects, and delivery teams to co-create architecture artifacts and future-state visions
• Communicate complex architecture concepts in clear, business-relevant terms to diverse audiences

• Act as a trusted advisor to business leaders, influencing decision-making with a strategic, enterprise-wide perspective
• Utilization of artificial intelligence tools and resources (e.g. generative AI)

What you bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, related field, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of experience in Life and Annuity insurance, including deep knowledge of policy administration, new business, underwriting, and claims processes.
• 5+ years of experience in enterprise or business architecture, preferably in a large insurance or financial services organization.
• Proven experience developing business capability models, operating models, and transformation roadmaps.
• Strong understanding of financial services processes and technologies, including core insurance systems, digital platforms, risk management, compliance, and security.
• Experience leading digital and operational transformation in insurance or financial services, including cloud adoption and leveraging AI/InsurTech to enhance operations and customer experience.
• Understanding of enterprise data architecture, data governance, and analytics enablement.
• Experience with enterprise architecture modeling tools, such as BOC ADOIT.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• You must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without requiring immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes holders of H-1B, H4, L-1, L-2, TN, OPT, CPT, and other nonimmigrant visas.

Job posting range $ 117,000 - $176,000

Note the job posting range is exclusive of company benefits or other compensation. This role is also eligible for an annual incentive program. If you are hired, your final base salary will be determined based on factors such as geographic location, experience, skills, competencies, and/or education. In addition to those factors, we will also consider internal equity of our current employees. Please keep in mind that the range provided is the full base salary range for the role. Hiring at or near the maximum of the range would not be typical to allow for future and continued salary growth. 

Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us. At Allianz, we stand for unity: we believe that a united world is a more prosperous world, and we are dedicated to consistently advocating for equal opportunities for all. And the foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matter, and nurtures a culture grounded in integrity, fairness, inclusion and trust. We therefore welcome applications regardless of race, ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability or sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations. 

Join us.  Let’s care for tomorrow.  #LI-BK1#LI-