Enterprise Architect for IT Enterprise Architecture (m/f/d)* - Limited to 12 months

Munich Re is a global market leader in re-insurance, global specialty insurance and digital solutions.  New technologies are disrupting the insurance value chain. 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.

This role will be part of the Enterprise Architecture Tower for Group Technology (IT1.5), which defines and drives the overarching Enterprise Architecture (EA) strategy to support business agility and growth across Munich Re Group. The Tower develops multiyear roadmaps covering platforms, products, digital experience and organizational design-balancing strategic alignment and transformation goals. 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 primary focus will be on Enterprise Architecture for Finance, Asset Management and Investment Management Functions. This role is about aligning business strategy and expected outcomes with initiatives, technology and investments.

The EA is accountable for proactively leading technology transformation activities and driving targeted business outcomes across all core business capabilities. 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.

Key goal of the role is to provide leadership, facilitation, analysis and design tasks required for the transformation of asset management capabilities and corresponding application portfolio and tech stack. 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.

Your Job

• Developing a Multiyear Roadmap. The Roadmaps capture business initiatives and strategic themes that connect the portfolio and the enterprise business strategy. 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 
• Working with EA peers (e.g., 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.
• Understand technology trends and the practical application of existing, new and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models
• Assisting with designing the governance, assurance and standards activities associated with ensuring enterprise technology architecture compliance
• Identifying the organizational impact (for example, on skills, processes, structures) and financial impact of the application portfolio and enterprise technology stack

Your Profile

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics or relevant field from an accredited college or university; Master’s degree from an accredited college or university preferred 
• 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.  
• Pronounced analytical and conceptual capabilities coupled with the ability to present complex situations in a clear and precise way
• Sound knowledge of software development and methodology 
• Ability to estimate the business, risk and financial impacts of architecture alternatives 
• Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of existing, new and emerging technologies that enable and drive new business designs and models
• Strong written and verbal communication in German and English

Application Instructions

This position is a fixed-term contract for up to 12 months.

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. If applicable, please also submit reference letters from any previous employers or certificates from any other qualifications you may have. We recommend writing a cover letter to tell us more about why the position and Munich Re is of interest to you.

About us

As the world's leading reinsurance company with more than 16,000 employees at over 50 locations, Munich Re introduces a paradigm shift in the way you think about insurance. By turning uncertainty into a manageable risk we enable fundamental change. 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. 
Together we embrace a culture where multiskilled teams dare to think big. We create the new and the different for our clients and cultivate innovation. 
Sounds like you? Push boundaries with us and be part of Munich Re.
Our employees are our greatest strength. That’s why we offer them a wide range of benefits. You can find some examples below. 

Unlock your potential

• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: we embrace the power of differences and are convinced that diversity fosters innovation and resilience and enables us to act braver and better.
• Continuous Learning: we believe that continuous learning is a key differentiator and critical for building new skills and accelerating growth.
• Career Mobility: we actively support career mobility, and our strong global and regional presence offers a wealth of career growth opportunities for you.

Rewards & Recognition

• 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.
• Health management: focus on your physical and mental health far beyond legal requirements. 
• 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.

* Munich Re not only stands for fairness with regard to its clients; it is also an equal opportunities employer. Severely disabled candidates will also be prioritized, if equally qualified.

Münchener Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft
Korbinian Rentsch
Talent Acquisition Partner