Title:  Head of Section EA Consulting

Successful candidates must be prepared to relocate to the specified job location in the job posting and will be employed directly under the hiring entity’s contractual terms.

This role will be part of the Enterprise Architecture Tower for Group Technology (IT 1.5), 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.

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.

The Head of Section EA Consulting leads a team that delivers strategic technology services across Munich Re. This includes Technology Strategy Consulting, which aligns platform, product, and technology strategies with business goals while optimizing costs through in-house expertise comparable to external consultancies. Architecture Governance ensures adherence to enterprise standards, enabling agility, vendor independence, and transformation success, while monitoring implementation for compliance. Technical Lifecycle Management maintains a detailed inventory of technology products and their interdependencies, maps them to business capabilities, and continuously monitors for changes and obsolescence to support informed decision-making in architecture and transformation planning.

Your job

* Lead a team of highly talented and motivated individuals and team leads to provide comprehensive set of services and capabilities for strategy consulting, architecture governance and technical lifecycle management

* Assess current state of Technical Lifecycle Management from a people, process and tooling perspective, revising processes and tools as necessary while deploying a resourcing model to ensure that all consuming business units can be supported through their portfolio transformation planning cycles

* Govern the transformation of our Application Portfolio Management & Technology Stacks globally via Architecture Governance and product implementation oversight functions

* Catalogue and monitor current state, risk and technical lifecycle of the application portfolio, including evolving dependencies and business capability delivery. Provide tools and processes necessary for accurate impact analysis and support the creation of unit specific Transformation Roadmaps

* Assess the global application portfolio, identify transformation and optimization opportunities and provide technology strategy consultation service to help with identifying direction of travel that aligns with business objectives as well as portfolio harmonization / standardization goals

* Continually update and modernize our Technology Strategy and Reference Architectures

* Reduce technical complexity, App footprint, drive standardization

Your profile

* Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science / Mathematics / Information Systems

* Advanced / Graduate degree in any of the above or Master of Business Administration preferred

* 15+ years Architecture experience in large Information Systems and Technology organizations, preferably in the Financial Services vertical (banking, insurance, general financial services).

* 5+ years’ experience as a manager or leader of teams of highly skilled team members in above domain(s)

* 10+ years’ experience formulating and delivering enterprise level technology strategies, preferably as a consultant

* Excellent Technology skillset across all capabilities

* Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, including experience engaging company-wide audiences and C-level stakeholders

* Proven track record of managing and delivering to a defined budget

* Ability to master complex organizational dynamics and lead team in navigating the balance required when addressing potentially competing objectives

* Pronounced analytical and conceptual capabilities coupled with the ability to present complex situations in a clear and precise manner

About us

As the world's leading reinsurance company with more than 11,000 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.

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Unlock your potential

* Professional Training & Certification: We accompany you in building up your professional profile by supporting with customized professional training and certification opportunities.

* 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.