We are seeking a Data Architect to help drive an insurance client's data transformation program. This role combines business leadership with hands-on technical execution, ensuring delivery of scalable insurance data platforms
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RESPONSIBILITIES
• Lead data architecture and platform design on Azure Databricks + Unity Catalog, ensuring scalability, governance, and performance.
• Develop and optimize data pipelines (dbt, Delta Live Tables, Spark) for actuarial, claims, reference, and other data.
• Design and implement data models for claims (paid, incurred, case reserves, exposures), enabling actuarial reserving, financial reconciliation, and regulatory reporting, with support for incremental vs. cumulative structures.
• Guide and help engineering team and client on best practices: CI/CD, version control, testing, DevOps pipelines.
• Mentor and coordinate data engineers, analysts, and offshore delivery teams.
• Ensure data quality, lineage, and governance across the platform.
• Partner with actuaries and business SMEs to validate models, KPIs, and reporting outputs.
• Drive orchestration & automation (Prefect, Azure DevOps) for reliable production workflows.
• Act as technical escalation point and ensure successful delivery of transformation roadmap.