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Role: Business Architect
Location: Oklahoma City, OK (4 weeks to attend workshop with client and then move to remote to accomplish respective delivery.)
Type: Long term Contract
Key Responsibilities:
Enterprise Architecture & Strategy
Define and evolve future-state enterprise architecture across business, technology, and integration domains.
Translate strategic business goals into enterprise-level architectural plans and domain-specific blueprints.
Facilitate the creation of target operating models and business capability maps tailored to L&A.
Business & Technical Capability Development
Develop and maintain business capability models to support product innovation, underwriting, policy administration, and surrounding processes.
Collaborate with IT and business leaders to define and map technical capabilities that enable business strategy.
Identify capability gaps and propose initiatives to build or mature key capabilities.
Roadmap Planning & Prioritization
Partner with portfolio and program management teams to align architecture deliverables with enterprise roadmaps.
Support the development of multi-year transformation roadmaps, with clear prioritization of initiatives based on business value, architectural alignment, and technical feasibility.
Facilitate architectural governance and investment planning across change portfolios.
Integration Architecture
Define high-level integration patterns and future-state integration architecture between core L&A systems, digital platforms, and third-party services.
Ensure architectural solutions enable interoperability, scalability, and compliance with data privacy and regulatory standards.
Required Skills & Experience:
12+ years of experience in business architecture, enterprise architecture, or strategy roles.
6+ years of experience in the Life and Annuity insurance domain is required.
Demonstrated experience defining future-state architecture and capability roadmaps in insurance.
Strong knowledge of core L&A processes: product development, new business, underwriting, policy admin, billing, claims, servicing.
Familiarity with technology platforms used in L&A: PAS (e.g., EIS, ALIP, OIPA), CRM, BPM, data platforms, APIs.
Experience with integration strategies and patterns (e.g., API-first, event-driven architecture).
Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.