Data Architect

Overview

In this role, you will shape and sell data-led consulting engagements for insurers and lead the design and delivery of modern data solutions. You’ll work across underwriting, claims, pricing, reserving, capital modelling, and risk to unlock data value and drive transformation. You will partner with senior stakeholders to shape propositions and governance, delivering measurable business outcomes. This is a UK-based, hybrid role with a global client remit that blends architecture leadership with pre-sales impact.

Pay / Benefits

• 25 days annual leave + extra company day
• private healthcare
• life insurance
• pension with matched contributions up to 10%
• hybrid working
• volunteer day

Responsibilities

• Shape go-to-market propositions by embedding data, analytics and AI into market-facing solutions
• Collaborate with leaders to develop differentiated data-led propositions
• Apply data capabilities to improve transformation outcomes across insurance functions
• Contribute thought leadership and define best practices for modern data platforms and operating models
• Support pre-sales by structuring data solutions that are commercially attractive and pragmatic
• Develop proposals, presentations, and narratives that articulate business value and data transformation outcomes
• Lead the design and oversee implementation of modern data capabilities delivering measurable business results
• Define scalable target-state architectures, insurance data models, governance frameworks, and integration approaches
• Provide data architecture leadership across complex transformation programmes and guide engineering teams
• Ensure solutions meet security, resilience, scalability, compliance, and operational excellence

Key requirements

• Proven experience leading architecture and delivery of enterprise-scale data transformation programmes
• Experience across proposition development, pre-sales, solution shaping, and delivery in consulting or insurance tech environments
• Ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders and communicate business value
• Strong commercial and operational awareness to balance ambition, complexity, risk, and value realization
• Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams on transformation initiatives with data capabilities across insurance domains

• stakeholder engagement
• communication of complex concepts in business terms
• leadership of multidisciplinary teams
• Microsoft Fabric
• Azure Synapse Analytics
• Azure Data Factory

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