Millennial Specialty Insurance, LLC is one of the largest non-carrier-affiliated Managing General Agencies (MGAs) in the United States. Combining expert underwriting with industry-leading technology, MSI creates a superior insurance experience for carriers, distribution partners, and customers. MSI collaborates with insurance carriers to design and distribute products through agents, brokers, and technology partners. Founded in 2015, MSI has grown to offer a wide range of insurance products across commercial, specialty, and personal lines. In 2019, MSI joined BRP Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: BRP).
Position Summary:
The Data Architect is responsible for the design of all MSI enterprise data and data management environments related to our Policy Administration Systems (PAS) and core applications within the MSI ecosystem. As a member of the Engineering Leadership team, you will partner with Solution Architects, DBA’s, Data and Analytics teams and our product and business leaders to design databases and data structures that support the continued expansion of our businesses. You will lead the development of our data strategy and implement a maintenance program focused on ensuring the ongoing alignment of our operating environment with the needs of our business. Through active partnership with the firm’s DBA’s, Analytics, and Business teams, they will continuously refine our data frameworks, and business and protocols ensuring conformance with data security, compliance with regulatory requirements.
Acts as the primary owner of database table changes and designs for the organization. Optimizes data architecture between production systems and the data and analytics platform. This includes understanding the business requirements for storing and retrieving data from multiple independent systems.
Principal Responsibilities:
1. Own our core database schemas and structures from MSI.
2. Continuously evaluate the firm’s data architecture to ensure structures continue to meet its evolving requirements.
3. Evaluate data requirements and demands aligning those needs with new system and product designs
4. Partners with the key stakeholders (e.g., Data and Analytics, DBA’s, Solution Architect, Engineering, Product, Operations) to design and implement contemporary data architectures to support advanced analytics and data science capabilities.
5. Collaborate and aid in documenting conceptual and logical data models.
6. Collaborates with the Data and Analytics departments on designs for semi-structured and unstructured data.
7. Partners with the Data Management team on any initiative from the data management perspective including the analysis, development and implementation of processes and protocols.
8. Optimizes all data related functions.
9. Functions as a systems engineer (technology side) for several products, especially ones that are data-centric.
10. Partners with engineering and solution architects to implement new features that require modifications to the database schema.
11. Partner with engineering to review queries tied to new features to help ensure we’re building out quality query constructs that consider performance.
12. Review existing queries across MSI systems (both primary and DnA) to help reduce technical debt and improve performance.
Education, Experience, Skills and Abilities Requirements:
13. Five or more years in the data architecture role.
14. Experience with cloud-based data architectures, databases, and orchestration tools required.
15. Knowledge of semi structured and unstructured data architectures and schema on read techniques.
16. Experience with MS Azure SQL databases
17. Detail oriented and proactive in taking measures to avoid or mitigate issues.
18. Basic understanding of project management philosophies.
19. Ability to make decisions with the best interest of the firm and end-users in mind.
20. Ability to demonstrate the firm’s core values, exuding behavior that is aligned with the corporate culture.
21. Bachelor’s degree in a technology related field required. Master’s degree preferred.
22. Demonstrates the organization’s core values, exuding behavior that is aligned with the firm’s culture.
Special Working Conditions:
23. Fast paced, multi-tasking environment.
24. Travel up to 10% of the time.
Important Notice:
This position description is intended to describe the level of work required of the person performing in the role and is not a contract. The essential responsibilities are outlined; other duties may be assigned as needs arise or as required to support the organization. All requirements may be subject to reasonable accommodations to applicants and colleagues who need them for medical or religious reasons.
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