Are you a strategic thinker who thrives at the intersection of business and technology? Do you want to shape the architectural backbone of one of the world's leading re/insurers? Swiss Re is looking for an experienced Enterprise Architect to join its Group Enterprise Architecture function - a role with real influence, global reach, and the opportunity to drive meaningful transformation at scale.
About the Role
This is your chance to play a pivotal role in shaping how architecture enables business strategy, innovation, and operational excellence across Swiss Re's global landscape. As a key member of the Group Enterprise Architecture community, you will drive governance, transparency, and consistency in architectural decision-making, while enabling delivery teams through clear standards, frameworks, and guardrails.
This is a high-impact individual contributor role with broad enterprise exposure, offering significant influence across Swiss Re's most strategic transformation initiatives - from AI/GenAI adoption to large-scale application modernisation.
Key Responsibilities:
Architecture Enablement & Strategy
Define and evolve enterprise architecture frameworks, principles, standards, and guardrails to enable consistent and scalable delivery across the organisation.
Translate business strategy into target architectures, roadmaps, and transition plans spanning business, application, data, and technology domains.
Establish reusable patterns, reference architectures, and best practices, including for AI/GenAI adoption.
Drive standardisation, simplification, and reuse to improve efficiency and long-term sustainability.
Ensure alignment between business capabilities, application landscapes, data models, and platforms.
Governance & Design Authority
Play a key role in architecture governance and Design Authority forums, ensuring high-quality, transparent decision-making.
Enforce governance processes through structured reviews across the full architecture lifecycle.
Ensure adherence to enterprise standards, security principles, regulatory requirements, and risk frameworks.
Provide constructive challenge and guidance to safeguard architectural integrity and business outcomes.
Maintain visibility of key architectural decisions, trade-offs, and enterprise-wide impacts.
Architecture Oversight & Delivery Enablement
Contribute to architectural designs and provide oversight for major transformation initiatives.
Ensure solutions align with target architectures, standards, and strategic direction.
Enable delivery teams through clear guidance, pragmatic guardrails, and decision support across the delivery lifecycle.
Support programmes in managing architectural risks, dependencies, and trade-offs.
Balance long-term vision with practical, real-world delivery needs.
Cross-Domain Alignment & Community Leadership
Collaborate with Domain Architects to ensure enterprise-wide alignment and coherence.
Facilitate resolution of cross-domain dependencies and conflicts with a solutions-focused mindset.
Promote a "one architecture" mindset, balancing consistency with domain autonomy.
Contribute to the architecture community through mentoring, coaching, and knowledge sharing.
Stakeholder Engagement & Influence
Build trusted relationships with senior business and technology stakeholders across the organisation.
Communicate architectural concepts in a clear, concise, and business-relevant manner to diverse audiences.
Act as a strategic advisor on investment decisions and transformation roadmaps.
Provide data-driven insights and recommendations to support executive decision-making.
About the Team
The Enterprise Architecture Team at Swiss Re is at the heart of the company's global transformation journey. As a group-wide function, the team is responsible for shaping how architecture drives business strategy, innovation, and operational excellence on a global scale. Working across business and technology domains, the team sets the direction for enterprise-wide architectural standards, governance, and target architectures - ensuring that Swiss Re's technology landscape is scalable, sustainable, and aligned with its long-term strategic ambitions. You will be joining a collaborative, forward-thinking community of architects who are passionate about making a real difference.
About You
You are a seasoned architecture professional who combines strategic thinking with pragmatic execution. You bring a strong ability to navigate complexity and ambiguity, influence senior stakeholders, and communicate architectural concepts in a way that resonates with both business and technology audiences. You are collaborative, accountable, and passionate about driving enterprise-wide change through architecture.
We are looking for candidates who meet these requirements:
Previous experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or large-scale transformation roles within global organisations.
Solid expertise in architecture governance, operating models, and frameworks, including TOGAF or equivalent.
Strong understanding of business capability modelling, application modernisation, data architecture, cloud/platform strategies, and AI/GenAI.
Proven experience in defining and governing target architectures and driving operational excellence in complex, matrixed environments.
TOGAF or equivalent enterprise architecture certification, demonstrating a structured and recognised approach to architecture practice.
These are additional nice to haves:
Familiarity with AI/GenAI adoption patterns and reference architectures.
Experience working with senior executive stakeholders and contributing to investment and transformation roadmap decisions.
Experience in mentoring or coaching other architects within a community of practice.
For Slovakia the base salary range for this position is between EUR 2,200 and EUR 3,700 per month (for a full-time role). The specific salary offered considers:
the requirements, scope, complexity and responsibilities of the role,
the applicant's own profile including education/qualifications, expertise, specialisation, skills and experience.
In addition to your base salary, Swiss Re offers an attractive performance-based variable compensation component, designed to recognise your achievements. Further you will enjoy a variety of global and location specific benefits.
Eligibility may vary depending on the terms of Swiss Re policies and your employment contract.
About Swiss Re
Swiss Re is one of the world's leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 15,000 employees across the world.
Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.
If you are an experienced professional returning to the workforce after a career break, we encourage you to apply for open positions that match your skills and experience.
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