By joining Sedgwick, you'll be part of something truly meaningful. It’s what our 33,000 colleagues do every day for people around the world who are facing the unexpected. We invite you to grow your career with us, experience our caring culture, and enjoy work-life balance. Here, there’s no limit to what you can achieve. Newsweek Recognizes Sedgwick as America’s Greatest Workplaces National Top Companies Certified as a Great Place to Work® Fortune Best Workplaces in Financial Services & Insurance Principal Architect Sr. PRIMARY PURPOSE: The Senior IT Principal Enterprise Architect shapes and drives a global, multi-year technology strategy across a diverse global landscape. This role partners with the VP of Architecture, domain architects, development teams, and business partners to evaluate the current estate, define a modern target architecture, and lead a pragmatic roadmap for the next five years of accelerated growth. The role is hands-on, outcome-driven, and requires exceptional communication, presentation, and documentation skills to influence across time zones, cultures, and disciplines. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES Drives Innovation Across the Enterprise - Champions new ideas and emerging technologies that deliver transformative business value. Encourages experimentation and calculated risk-taking across architecture and engineering teams. - Proactively scouts for opportunities to leverage AI, automation, advanced analytics, and next-generation platforms. Launches pilot programs and proof-of-concepts to validate impact and scalability. - Partners with business leaders, product teams, and domain architects to surface unmet needs and co-create innovative solutions. Facilitates workshops and innovation forums to accelerate ideation and solutioning. - Creates frameworks for evaluating, prioritizing, and scaling successful innovations. Ensures alignment with enterprise strategy, compliance, and risk management. - Advances a learning-first culture by sharing insights on technology trends, hosting knowledge-sharing sessions, and mentoring teams on innovation best practices. - Champions modernization and standardization by balancing innovation, risk, cost, and time-to-value. Enterprise Strategy & Roadmap - Assesses current-state architecture (applications, data, integration, security, infrastructure—cloud and on-premises). Defines target-state and reference architectures. - Delivers a sequenced, value-centric 3 to 5 year roadmap. Cloud & Platform Architecture - Architect solutions spanning U.S. on-premises data centers, Azure (primary cloud), AWS (select workloads), and Google SecOps for SIEM. Guides hybrid/multi-cloud patterns, landing zones, network/identity architecture, FinOps, cost governance, and observability. - Ensures resilient, scalable designs for both cloud-first international footprints and U.S. data centers. Modernization & Integration - Leads rationalization and modernization of legacy platforms to contemporary architectures. - Establishes and evolves enterprise integration patterns (API-first, event-driven, data streaming). - Partners with teams to decompose monoliths, define domain boundaries, and enable modular, evolvable systems. Middleware & API Management - Define and govern enterprise integration architecture, including API-first design principles, middleware platforms, and event-driven patterns to ensure scalability, security, and reusability. - Lead API lifecycle management and platform strategy (API gateways, ESB/iPaaS), enforcing standards for design, security (OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS), and observability across all services. - Establish integration governance and best practices, driving adoption of reusable assets, developer enablement, and compliance with regulatory and performance requirements. Data, Security & Resilience - Guides data platform choices and patterns across multiple database platforms (Oracle, MS SQL, Progress OpenEdge, SAP HANA, MariaDB). - Partners with Security and DR architects to embed Zero Trust, data protection, threat detection, disaster recovery, RTO/RPO, and business continuity into designs. - Promotes shared observability, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, and reliability engineering. Governance & Standards - Establishes architecture principles, decision records, guardrails, and review processes that enable autonomy with alignment. - Creates clear, consumable documentation, blueprints, and education materials for global audiences. Leadership & Change Enablement - Influences senior stakeholders; constructively challenges the status quo and addresses resistance to change with data and empathy. - Communicates complex ideas clearly to executives and engineers; facilitates design reviews and architecture forums. - Mentors domain architects and engineering leaders; models a collaborative, learning-first culture. ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS and RESPONSIBILITIES - Performs other duties as assigned. - Travel as required. QUALIFICATIONS Education & Licensing Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or a related field from an accredited college or university preferred. Experience Ten plus (10+) years of architecture experience spanning application, integration, data, security, and infrastructure across both cloud and on-premises or equivalent combination of education and experience required. Experience establishing an enterprise API program from the ground up (platform selection, rollout, governance) and prior leadership in modernization programs for legacy 4GL and client/server estates are highly preferred. Experience working across time zones; willingness to flex hours for critical global meetings and multilingual capabilities are preferred. Skills & Knowledge - Strong Azure experience plus working knowledge of AWS; understanding of SIEM/SecOps integrations (Google SecOps a plus) - Practical exposure to several stacks: C# .NET, Java, Python, Progress OpenEdge, ColdFusion, PowerBuilder; ability to evaluate trade-offs versus target patterns - Hands-on with multiple databases; knows when to standardize, retire, or adopt platform capabilities - Proven track record with API management, event streaming, messaging, and enterprise integration patterns - Modern architecture patterns: microservices, domain-driven design, 12-factor, containers/orchestration, serverless where appropriate, and hybrid connectivity patterns - Security and reliability by design: embeds security, DR/resilience, observability, and cost controls into the architecture - Outstanding written, visual, and verbal communication skills; creates clear roadmaps, persuasive presentations, and precise decision records - Comfortable pushing back on unproductive inertia; data-driven, empathetic, and able to build coalitions across global teams - Familiarity with regulatory and data residency considerations across regions - Ability to meet or exceed Performance Competencies WORK ENVIRONMENT When applicable and appropriate, consideration will be given to reasonable accommodations. Mental: Clear and conceptual thinking ability; excellent judgment, troubleshooting, problem solving, analysis, and discretion; ability to handle work-related stress; ability to handle multiple priorities simultaneously; and ability to meet deadlines Physical: Computer keyboarding, travel as required Auditory/Visual: Hearing, vision and talking The statements contained in this document are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by a colleague assigned to this description. They are not intended to constitute a comprehensive list of functions, duties, or local variances. Management retains the discretion to add or to change the duties of the position at any time. Sedgwick is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Drug-Free Workplace. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, consider applying for it anyway! 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