Who We Are
Join a team that puts its People First! Since 1889, First American (NYSE: FAF) has held an unwavering belief in its people. They are passionate about what they do, and we are equally passionate about fostering an environment where all feel welcome, supported, and empowered to be innovative and reach their full potential. Our inclusive, people-first culture has earned our company numerous accolades, including being named to the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list for nine consecutive years. We have also earned awards as a best place to work for women, diversity and LGBTQ+ employees, and have been included on more than 50 regional best places to work lists. First American will always strive to be a great place to work, for all. For more information, please visit www.careers.firstam.com.
What We Do
This senior technology role will be instrumental in leading Business Technology Solutions (Corporate IT) as a business-oriented organization. This position will oversee the corporate technology functions of Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Integration platforms. This position will play a key role on the Business Technology Solutions leadership team in shaping and driving the development and execution of our organization’s business technology strategy.
HOW YOU’LL CONTRIBUTE
- Partner with the CIO and business technology leadership team, providing broad insight to IT domains and capabilities in support of enterprise-wide business decisions.
- Deliver Enterprise Architecture consultative services across multiple business units working closely with product teams and Information Security leaders.
- Mature and scale the Planview Enterprise Architecture platform within BTS and across the business divisions. Enhance architectural governance, strategy mapping and alignment, business and technology architecture, enterprise resiliency, information and systems mapping and application portfolio optimization.
- Advance the technology governance board/processes to include technology product evaluations, alignment to standards, and technology blueprint reviews that fit the needs of the business with a streamlined approach.
- Partner across divisions and functional units to reduce overall architectural complexity of our technical environments, reducing risk, and focus on improving customer value.
- Lead the future of Enterprise Integration at First American by collaborating with our business partners to expand our offerings into a managed choices portfolio, and a developer portal and API Catalog delivering an outstanding developer experience across the enterprise.
- Collaborate with business partners to accelerate adoption of the Azure OpenAI platform for greater business value.
- Partner with CIO, CTO and other business leaders to increase the use of Generative AI technologies for innovative and measurable outcomes.
- Supervisory responsibility for multiple functions, managing through more than one layer of management. Delegates tasks, manages workflow, and plans staffing requirements and salary administration. Interviews candidates and makes hiring decisions, writes and conducts performance reviews, supplies ongoing feedback, and manages disciplinary actions. Coaches and mentors staff; provides development opportunities. Ensures that teams and individuals understand roles and responsibilities via clear communication of goals and objectives. Meets with individual team members on performance measurements, goals, and evaluations.
WHAT YOU’LL BRING
Required Education, Experience, Certification/Licensure
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or Information Technology, Advanced degree preferred.
- 15+ years proven experience managing complex cross functional units or groups.
- Minimum 10+ years leading technical teams with at least 5+ years’ experience working as an architect and/or an engineer.
- Experience with value stream mapping and business capability modeling.
- Experience with Cloud and related technologies (AWS/Azure/GCP).
- Experience with integration architecture and best practices.
- Experience with Microsoft applications and enterprise integration platforms (Mulesoft, Tibco, Opentext).
- A product mindset for automated, turnkey software solutions, enabling greater autonomy for application development teams.
- Background in The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) and Planview Enterprise Architecture platform.
- Proven strategic thought leadership and demonstrated experience driving innovation and change.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES (KSAs)
- Demonstrated competency in creating and executing strategic plans.
- Proven track record of leading large, complex projects with multiple stakeholders and driving organizational change.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience creating and delivering compelling presentations to executive audiences inside and outside the company.
- Strong collaboration, negotiation and influencing skills in a highly matrixed organization.
- A deep understanding of metrics/dashboards that drive an environment and culture of continuous improvement.
- Progressive experience in leading employees in multiple locations, and experience developing and implementing solutions.
- Possesses strong problem solving, critical thinking, team building, and presentation skills.
- Results oriented with strong time management and project management skills and must be highly organized and driven to succeed.
- Strong leadership skills, leading by example, driving employee commitment through actions, and empowering employees to reach their full potential.
Pay Range: $140,360 - $290,400 Annually
This hiring range is a reasonable estimate of the base pay range for this position at the time of posting. Pay is based on a number of factors which may include job-related knowledge, skills, experience, business requirements and geographic location.
What We Offer
By choice, we don’t simply accept individuality – we embrace it, we support it, and we thrive on it! Our People First Culture celebrates diversity, equity and inclusion not simply because it’s the right thing to do, but also because it’s the key to our success. We are proud to foster an authentic and inclusive workplace For All. You are free and encouraged to bring your entire, unique self to work. First American is an equal opportunity employer in every sense of the term.Based on eligibility, First American offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401k, PTO/paid sick leave and other great benefits like an employee stock purchase plan.
