Data Architect

Mandatory Skills:

• Azure Databrick.
• Hands-on with dbt, Delta Live Tables, Prefect, Azure DevOps CI/CD.
• Insurance/Finance Experiences

Role Description Skills:

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.

1. 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.

2. SKILLS

• Strong background in data architecture & engineering on Azure Databricks (Spark, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog).
• Hands-on experience with dbt, Delta Live Tables, Prefect, Azure DevOps CI/CD.
• Knowledge of actuarial data structures (triangles, claims, exposures, reserving).
• Ability to bridge business and technology, working with senior stakeholders.
• Strong leadership, communication, and delivery management skills.

3. NICE TO HAVE

• Background in reinsurance or insurance finance.
• Knowledge of actuarial methods and reporting frameworks.
• Experience with advanced analytics/ML for claims and reserving.