Munich Re is a global market leader in re-insurance, global specialty insurance and digital solutions. Our innovative minds in IT spearhead the transformation and make change happen. We support clients with a comprehensive range of insurance and risk management products. Our goal is to become even more digital through the expertise of our IT & Tech specialists and by leveraging data and insights to support innovation and client service. We are therefore making targeted IT investments and helping our insurance clients and partners to tackle problems in the modern digital world with innovative and forward-looking solutions.
5), which defines and drives the overarching Enterprise Architecture (EA) strategy to support business agility and growth across Munich Re Group. It ensures consistent policy, monitors architecture delivery, and optimizes the application portfolio to reduce costs and accelerate innovation. Additionally, the Tower provides SDLC tools and processes that enhance global developer productivity in a secure, compliant and standardized environment.
We are looking for an Enterprise Architect (EA) to join the Group Technology Enterprise Architecture Tower.
The EA drives and supports initiatives and harmonization efforts transforming legacy processes/systems into central and group wide platforms and supports Technical Architects to design/deliver pattern and projects.
Together with the Technical Architecture team and IT Business Solutions the EA creates deliverables that help develop target-state guidance (transformation roadmaps and standards, guidelines, patterns) across the enterprise, in order to enable business strategy and successfully deliver projects.
They also capture the enablers that reflect the architectural, technology and business process initiatives that are necessary to enable those projects
Assess / cluster / monitor the project portfolio, manage the roadmap for transformation, support the setup of migration & transformation projects, provide relevant data/TCO to calculate ROI – Business Cases and provide project charters, ensure that our TCO’s are appropriate for the services we consume
Identifying and driving all initiatives, participate in RfPs and/or PoCs, maintain collaboration channels with internal customers in different towers as well as working closely together with the Senior Enterprise Architects and all other EA team members
Supporting the analysis and transformation of the current technology and application portfolio to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement
enterprise, business, solutions architects) to analyze enterprise business context (business strategy and trends), as well as change requirements in other enterprise architecture viewpoints to derive the technology architecture future state.
Assisting with designing the governance, assurance and standards activities associated with ensuring enterprise technology architecture compliance
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics or relevant field from an accredited college or university; Multiyear experience in Investment Management/Asset Management (Portfolio Management & Trading, Performance & Risk Management, ESG, Fund Administration, Investment Accounting, Investment Operations, Multi Asset Investing, Market Data) and/or Finance (Reserving, Controlling, Accounting) or comparable
Excellent (enterprise) architecture skillset in financial systems or asset management systems environments/tech stacks (SAP, Oracle Financials, Simcorp Dimension, etc.) and ideally sound technical data-related skillset (SQL, Databricks Lakehouse, R, Python, SAP BW, SAP DSP, etc.)
Several years of working experience in implementation projects of platforms mentioned above
Demonstrated experience partnering with business colleagues and working in an agile environment responsive to fast paced, iterative decision-making and solution delivery expectations
Experience getting results in a global, regulated industry and designing solutions where compliance and risk controls are embedded to ensure that business requirements and risk objectives are achieved.
Sound knowledge of software development and methodology
Strong written and verbal communication in German and English
Please apply through our online portal and upload your CV, as well as your academic reference letters, including school certificates, graduation certificates and transcripts of record for any degrees. Join us working on topics today that will concern society tomorrow, whether that be climate change, major construction projects, medical risk assessment or even space travel.
That’s why we offer them a wide range of benefits. Career Mobility: we actively support career mobility, and our strong global and regional presence offers a wealth of career growth opportunities for you.
Competitive salary: appropriate compensation for your high level of commitment.
Retirement provision: state of the art in-house pension solutions.
Work-life balance: promoting the compatibility of family and work in addition to overall work-life balance.
Hybrid working: living the best of both worlds – we offer you a very flexible approach as well as the opportunity to work from abroad on an occasional basis.
* it is also an equal opportunities employer. Severely disabled candidates will also be prioritized, if equally qualified.