Acrisure is a global Fintech leader that combines the best of humans and high tech to offer multiple financial products and services to millions of businesses and individual clients. We connect clients to solutions that help them protect and grow what matters, including Insurance, Reinsurance, Cyber Services, Mortgage Origination and more.
Acrisure employs over 17,000 entrepreneurial colleagues in 21 countries and have grown from $38 million to $4.3 billion in revenue in just over ten years. Our culture is defined by our entrepreneurial spirit and all that comes with it: innovation, client centricity and an indomitable will to win.
Transformation Solutions Architects support Acrisrure’s Transformation Office by playing a key role partnering with business verticals and the overall enterprise by understanding their governance structure, business processes, and information systems. This role engineers and aligns current to future state process and system design with decisions regarding products and services, partners, OKRs, capabilities, and key IT initiatives. The primary focus is the business platforms, business operations, business analysis frameworks, and related networks that link these aspects of the enterprise together. The Solutions Architect works to develop an integrated view of the enterprise using a repeatable approach, cohesive framework, and industry standard techniques. They will effectively lead partnering with internal stakeholders in building strong relationships of trust and providing the Transformation Office and Acrisure leadership with timely information for informed decision making.
Responsibilities:
Guide multiple geographies, platforms and leaders to an optimal process and technology model with exceptional change management application to support the organization
Works closely with a counterparts in the Transformation Office, Platforms, Operations, and IT to align process improvements to technical solutions
Develop a solutions architecture strategy based on a situational awareness of various business scenarios, stakeholders, and motivations
Apply a structured solutions engineering approach and methodology for capturing the key current and future state views of the enterprise
Capture the tactical and strategic business goals that provide traceability through the organization and are mapped to metrics that provide ongoing governance
Document the primary business functions of the enterprise and distinguish between customer-facing, platform-related, and information technology functions
Define the set of strategic, core and support processes that transcend functional and organizational boundaries; identify and describe external entities such as customers, suppliers, and external systems that interact with the business; and describe which people, resources and controls are involved in the processes
Work with technology partners to define the data shared across the enterprise and the relationships between those data
Capture the relationships among roles, capabilities and business units, the decomposition of those business units into subunits, and the internal or external management of those units
Partner with the PMO to translate technical requirements to actionable business deliverables
Work with the Transformation Office to drive process improvement and scalable solutions that work across a complex ecosystem of business lines and verticals
Partner closely with Transformation Office communication, training, and branding resources to help drive lasting change and keep stakeholders informed throughout the organization
Oversee and build the capability of their team, ensuring solutions goals are reached
Key Skills:
Intellectual curiosity with a passion for problem solving and building relationships
Proven ability to create rapport with and influence all levels of stakeholders
Strong personal credibility and leadership skills; can comfortably lead senior executives through difficult discussions and creatively drive consensus
Unique ability to balance equally building relationships and driving performance
Ability to apply solutions/process engineering best practices with a predisposition to produce fast, practical recommendations; ability to simplify the complex
Low-ego while being equally comfortable giving and receiving direction, leading and contributing, driving executive conversations or supporting as necessary
High EQ with a strong ability to 'read the room' and adjust approach, facilitate change management tactics, and foster trust at levels of the organization
Ability to rapidly get to an '80/20' answer, and comfort tailoring the analytical approach as necessary given timelines
Exceptional communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations
The ability to act as liaison conveying information needs of the business to IT and data constraints to the business; applies equal conveyance regarding business strategy and IT strategy, business processes and workflow automation, business initiatives and IT initiatives, and benefit realization and service delivery
Team player able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus
Strong situational analysis and decision making abilities
Education/Experience:
Bachelors degree (or higher) in Information Technology or related field and 5+ years of experience leading large process engineering transformational efforts
Demonstrated leadership experience and indirect team leadership of cross-functional resources
A broad, enterprise-wide view of the business and varying degrees of appreciation for strategy, processes and capabilities, enabling technologies, and governance
Experience recognizing structural issues within the organization, functional interdependencies and cross-silo redundancies
The ability to apply architectural principles to business solutions
The ability to assimilate and correlate disconnected documentation and articulate their collective relevance to the organization and to high-priority business issues
Experience using model-based representations that can be adjusted as required to collect, aggregate or disaggregate complex and conflicting information about the business
The ability to visualize and create high-level models that can be used in future analysis to extend and mature the business architecture
Extensive experience planning and deploying both business and IT initiatives
Experience modeling business processes using a variety of tools and techniques
Advanced user of MS Office, SharePoint, business process management, and business intelligence tools
Project management experience preferred
Benefits & Perks:
Competitive Compensation
Industry Leading Healthcare
Savings and Investments
Charitable Giving Programs
Offering hybrid work option
Opportunities for Growth
Parental Leave
Generous time away
Acrisure is committed to making an impact in our communities by giving back, with millions committed to children’s health with Helen Devos Children’s Hospital and UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.
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