Lead Data Architect

About the Role

Are you an energetic Data Architect who enjoys working with teams to design and deliver exceptional data driven solutions?

As a Data Architect you will be responsible for supporting the companies' ambition to become a data driven commercial insurer. Working with both internal and external customers, you will need to have strong analytical and conceptual thinking, with the ability to recognize competing requirements and constraints, to balance and negotiate trade-offs.

The role is a mix of strong solution architecture awareness combined with a strong background in data modelling and canonical modelling. The role is very much focused on constantly improving the data landscape aimed at democratizing our data assets.

You thrive working in an agile, collaborative environment providing knowledge and guidance on the data architecture.

Your responsibilities include:

• High-level architecture and designs for database and data integrations leveraging Conceptual, logical and physical data models.
• End to end data analysis, from business analysis and data modelling through to data quality assurance, on a major global program in the Commercial Insurance sector in a fast-moving Agile environment.
• Complex SQL based data analysis
• Maintenance of the logical and physical data models within a CASE tool (SAP Sybase Power Designer), supporting both SDLC and Agile application development approaches.
• Collaborate with your customers, understanding their data needs, finding innovative ways to bring data into their daily process.
• Work with other members of the data team, including data architects, data analysts, data engineers, and data scientists.
• Create full transparency of data for customers to know what is available and how to use it

About you

Are you eager to disrupt the insurance industry with us and make an impact? Do you wish to have your talent recognized and rewarded? Then join our growing team and become part of the next wave of insurance innovation.

Your experience

• Proven track record of delivering results and impact
• Minimum of 5-7 years as a Data Architect
• Strong business acumen and a deep strategic mindset
• Requirements gathering, analysis and prioritization for business processes and data flows, persistence and integration.
• Conceptual and logical data and physical modeling; (Sybase Power Designer)
• Data retrieval and manipulation using SQL
• Data architecture: design for integration of complex data flows from multiple applications
• Data warehousing design, both dimensional and 3NF
• SDLC and Agile/SCRUM software development processes
• Experience working with and understanding the needs of customers or clients (internal or external)
• Ability to understand and internalize an organization’s strategy and culture, and contribute to their implementation and reinforcement through technology architecture and data designs
• A desire and openness to learning and continuous improvement, both of yourself and your team members
• Proven analytical skills and experience making decisions based on hard and soft data
• Commitment to the organization’s new way of working through greater collaboration and breaking down of siloes
• English fluency is a requirement, demonstrating excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent in team and organizational development by providing the highest quality of services
• Experience in information & data governance would be a plus
• Self-motivated and good communication skills
• Dedication and flexibility; aptitude for fast learning
• Ideally experience in insurance/reinsurance or financial industry

Behavioural Competences

• Excellent organizational skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills; ability to communicate on different levels of seniority.
• Team player; enjoying being part of a cross-functional setup.
• Ability to perform well on time-critical endeavours and on multiple fronts at the time.
• Strong dedication to quality and 'client' mindset.
• A passion for learning and continuous improvement, both of yourself and your team members.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. Our aim is to live visible and invisible diversity –diversity of age, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, physical abilities, personalities and experiences – at all levels and in all functions and regions. We also collaborate in a flexible working environment, providing you with a compelling degree of autonomy to decide how, when and where to carry out your tasks.

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