Enterprise Architect Enablement and Governance

Location: Bratislava, SK

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.