SVP, Chief Enterprise Architect

Who are we?

A strategic and trusted insurance partner, Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI), provides a broad range of commercial property, casualty and specialty insurance coverages and outstanding service to customers and brokers around the world. Part of Berkshire Hathaway’s insurance operations, we bring our solutions to market with our stellar brand name, top-rated balance sheet, and the expertise of our global team of professionals, who exude excellent capabilities and strong character.

We are a values-based organization where respect, integrity, excellence, collaboration, and passion define who we are and how we do business. We value diversity of backgrounds, experience, and perspectives and strive to foster an inclusive environment that enables all our team members to bring their best selves to work. We are one team committed to building a culture where every teammate has the opportunity to contribute and be recognized.

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BHSI has an exciting opportunity for a senior technology leader with a strong passion for shaping the future of enterprise technology solutions to join our Boston based Technology team. In this newly created role reporting directly to the Chief Information Officer, the Chief Enterprise Architect leader must thrive in a dynamic environment and leverage deep architectural expertise to drive meaningful transformation of the technology landscape.

We are seeking a highly technical Enterprise Architecture Leader to spearhead the evolution of our architecture and engineering practices to help us enable our businesses in new and differentiating ways. This is a rare opportunity to architect the future of a rapidly growing, global insurance company. As the Enterprise Architecture Leader, you will be the chief architect of our digital future—responsible for defining and executing a bold architectural vision that enables scale, agility, and innovation.

You will lead a unified team of architects and partner closely with engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and business leaders to ensure our technology landscape is secure, efficient, and aligned with strategic business goals. This role will shape how we build by driving modern architecture, instituting contemporary patterns, and establishing standards and enablers that have a direct impact on business outcomes. This position will have the support of the executive leadership team, and the opportunity to leave a lasting impact on a global scale.

• Define and drive the enterprise architecture strategy, vision, and roadmap aligning business and technology goals to support BHSI’s growth and operational excellence.
• Establish architecture governance, enforce technology and tool standards, and lead rationalization efforts to reduce technology complexity, risk, and costs in the system.
• Champion a high-performance engineering framework to elevate code quality, reduce security vulnerabilities, and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
• Develop and operationalize a technical debt framework to assess, score, and remediate architectural and code-level debt across the enterprise.
• Enhance the productivity and satisfaction of our engineering teams by optimizing tools, workflows, and automation practices by operationalizing Developer Experience (Dev Ex) practices.
• Promote continuous improvement through education, coaching, and measurement of architecture and engineering quality.
• Identify and mitigate risks associated with architectural decisions in collaboration with Cybersecurity and Infrastructure teams.
• Build and lead a Business Architecture team to bridge business capabilities with technology solutions, ensuring strategic alignment and value delivery.
• Align business strategy with execution through capability mapping, process modeling, and value stream analysis.
• Provide architectural oversight for major technology initiatives, ensuring alignment with enterprise goals.
• Lead the design and review of complex systems and solutions across…