Director Architecture and Technology Strategy

Job Responsibility:

Who is Allstate:

Allstate Insurance Company of Canada is a leading home and auto insurer focused on providing its customers prevention and protection products and services for every stage of life. The company is proud to have been named a Best Employer in Canada for nine consecutive years and prioritizes supporting employees and fostering an inclusive, welcoming corporate culture. Allstate is committed to making a positive difference in the communities in which it operates through partnerships with charitable organizations, employee giving and volunteerism. Serving Canadians since 1953, Allstate strives to provide reassurance with its "You're in Good Hands " promise.

Through our Employee Value Proposition, Opportunity, Flexibility, Community, Diversity and Family, we have worked hard to develop and nurture a culture where employees feel valued, experience personal growth, have career options and truly enjoy the work they do.

Role Designation: Hybrid

Benefits to joining Allstate

• Flexible Work Arrangements
• Employee discounts (15% on auto and property insurance, plus many other products and services)
• Good Office program (receive up to 400$ back after purchasing office equipment)
• Student Loan Payment Matching Program for Government Student loans
• Comprehensive Retirement Savings Program with employer matched contributions
• Annual Wellness allowance to support employees with improving health and wellbeing
• Personal reflection day
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Working within the community and giving back!

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Reporting to the VP Technology & CIO, the Director Architecture and Technology Strategy is responsible for establishing and evolving the Allstate Canada Group (ACG) technology strategy to drive quantifiable and qualified business results in support of the broader ACG vision and strategy over a period of 4 to 5 years. This leader oversees Enterprise, Business, and Solution Architecture capabilities and leads exploratory initiatives to determine the long-term impact of new or anticipated strategies that de-risk big bet decisions. This role acts as a direct advisor to the CIO, ACG's executive leaders, enterprise executives, and director stakeholders.

Accountabilities:

• Develops, optimizes and evolves the Technology strategy and Allstate Canada Architecture to support speed to business outcomes, security, regulatory & compliance and align with the business strategy.

• Support regulatory and mature architecture practices via thought leadership, proactive regulatory review, active governance on best practices and architectural patterns is provided to other IT teams for all technology solutions.

• Actively governs and manages end of life and collaborates with Departmental stakeholders to ensure technology health, technical debt and currency is in alignment with target state architecture.

• Rapid technology architecture decision making that support speed to clarity on technology selections, purchases or building assets.

• Demonstrates holistic and in-depth business acumen of the enterprise, insurance, and protection industry and the ACG and Allstate landscape. Demonstrates thought leadership in their area of accountability to provide inspiration and motivation toward a forward-looking culture that supports business outcomes, continuous learning, empowerment and inclusivity.

• Develop, implement and communicate the technology strategy across a 3-year timeframe in alignment with the business strategy and goals. Support the financial planning process for the technology organization with consideration of the future technology ecosystem.

• Select and Recommend Technology selection decisions in concert with the ACG stakeholder, enterprise procurement and Allstate architecture governance.

• Financial accountability for overseeing budgets (managed directly by managers) including forecasts, actuals, and business cases.

• Leverages external industry relationships to improve the organization and serves as a representative of Allstate in the industry.
• Influences individual contributors, managers, partners, service providers, senior leaders, executives, and peers to successfully deliver on business commitments spanning multiple organizations and levels of complexity.

• Continually seeks opportunities to be a thought partner, increase internal and external business partner satisfaction, and deepen relationships.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Engineering, Business, or related discipline.
• Architecture certifications (e.g. CSA, TOGAF, AWS, etc.).
• Requires 10+ years of experience in a leadership role, preferably in the insurance or financial services industry.
• 10+ years' experience developing, coaching. and leading organizations with a global footprint.
• 8-10 years of management experience with global teams
• 15+ years of experience across all aspects of technology including infrastructure, service management, development, and engineering.
• Understanding of various delivery methodologies and how architecture can be integrated into the models to accelerate business value.
• Experience in all architecture domains, security, integration, data, application, infrastructure / cloud and business.
• Experience architecting and running large programs and various deliver methods for large and medium companies would be an asset.
• Proven ability to explore concepts to shape and clarify business problems and opportunities.
• Proven ability to champion change, inspire a shared vision and promote key values driving urgency and execution.

Agile project management processes (e.g. Scrum, Lean, Kanban, SAFe, etc.).

• Experience working with RFx processes and working with suppliers and vendors to select suppliers and/or outsourcing agreements that enable solutions.

Bonus qualification:

• Security certifications (e.g. CISSP, CISA, CISM, CRISC, etc.) would be an asset.
• A Master's in Business Administration (MBA) degree is an asset.

Allstate Canada Group has policies and practices that provide workplace accommodations. If you require accommodation, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.