Business Architect

Role: Business Architect (Life and Annuity Domain)

Location: Oklahoma, USA(Initially 4weeks at client location then REMOTE)

Type: Contract

Must Have Exp: Domain Life and Annuity Domain is must, at least 5+ years experience

Job Description:

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:

• 14+ years of experience in business architecture, enterprise architecture, or strategy roles.
• 5+ 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.