Leadership Development Programs
Information Technology Leadership Development Program
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Travelers Information Technology Leadership Development Program (ITLDP) is an accelerated four- to five-year rotational program emphasizing leadership development for college graduates looking to pursue a career in Information Technology.
Travelers has more than 3,000 individuals in information systems positions primarily in Hartford, Conn., and Saint Paul, Minn. If you possess a strong motivation to succeed, leadership potential, and a professional and dedicated work ethic, you should consider becoming part of the ITLDP.
Program Components
Participants complete rotations of increasing complexity in technology and business, depending upon prior work experience. The program offers a variety of areas of concentration (e.g., application development, infrastructure and business intelligence) and areas of additional focus within each. A typical rotation is 12 months in length, but rotations can vary in length from four to 15 months. Program participants are required to complete at least one six-month rotation in a Travelers field office.
Participants have opportunities for rotations in information systems and business areas in both applications and enterprise supporting disciplines. Areas include:
- Business Insurance
- Claim
- Enterprise Operations
- Finance, Enterprise Systems and Services
- Financial, Professional and International Insurance
- IT Production Services
- Operations, Architecture, Infrastructure Systems
- Personal Insurance
Training and Development
The ITLDP is multi-faceted, offering a technology, business and management-oriented development curriculum that includes training in cutting-edge technologies, insurance, strategy and leadership. Other program components include formal mentoring, networking and career guidance.
Requirements
Candidates should have a passion for both technology and business and possess an IT-related undergraduate or graduate degree with a preferred GPA of 3.2 or greater.
Additional desired qualifications include:
- Demonstrated leadership experience
- Extracurricular involvement
- Prior work experience/internship experience
- Motivation to succeed
- Strong verbal and written communication skills and analytical skills
- Legally eligible to work in the United States
Suggested Majors
- Computer and Electrical Engineering
- Computer Science
- Information Technology
- Management Information Systems
- Mathematics or Business related majors with a minor in Information Technology
- Telecommunications
Locations
Positions are available in Hartford, Conn. and Saint Paul, Minn.
Technology at Travelers
As a leading property and casualty insurer, Travelers is heavily invested in technology. We leverage cost-effective systems and dynamic application development to build innovative and essential business processes. We have created many “first-of-kind” applications that have set the industry standard in product delivery and customer service. Supported by an advanced infrastructure, our technology innovation continues to create value and give us a key competitive advantage in our industry.
Our distributed environment includes physical and virtual devices on diverse technologies, including Windows, Solaris, VMware ESX Virtualization and Redhat Linux, and integrates with a centralized MVS legacy mainframe environment. Our frame-relay and MPLS networks connect our distributed environment to our data centers, LAN centers, and approximately 200 field offices nationally and internationally.
Throughout our enterprise environment, we use technologies that include JEE, WebSphere, JBoss, .NET, C, C++, Visual Basic, JavaScript, Perl, COBOL, DB2, IMS, Oracle, Teradata, SQL Server, advanced telecommunications technologies, and best of breed SAN technologies. We maintain our own presence on the internet with a multi-site Web hosting environment of more than 100 servers. To monitor and protect our environments, we implement extensive disaster recovery plans and leverage advanced intrusion detection technologies to remain abreast of evolving threats.
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