Data Architect – Insurance Industry

Our client, a well-established leader in the insurance sector, is seeking an experienced Data Architect to join their growing team. This is a permanent role offering strong long-term career progression and the opportunity to shape the organization’s data strategy at a critical stage of its transformation journey. You will play a key role in designing scalable data architecture that underpins major business decisions across underwriting, claims, and customer insights.

Why this role differs from others:

• High-impact role at the center of a major enterprise-wide data transformation program.
• Significant influence over data strategy, architecture standards, and long-term direction.
• Direct exposure to senior leadership and key decision-makers across the business.
• Opportunity to modernize legacy systems and shape a cloud-first data ecosystem.
• Strong autonomy to define best practices rather than simply maintain existing frameworks.
• Rare opportunity to bridge traditional insurance systems with modern data and analytics platforms.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Design and build scalable, secure data architecture for a large insurance environment.
• Translate business requirements into robust, long-term data models.
• Collaborate with senior IT and business stakeholders to define and prioritize data needs.
• Solve complex data challenges and drive improvements across the data landscape.
• Optimize data flows, storage, and performance across enterprise systems.
• Support modernization of legacy platforms and enable cloud-based data solutions.
• Contribute to data governance, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and compliance.

Key Skills:

• Proven experience as a Data Architect within insurance or a regulated environment – essential for understanding complex data, compliance requirements, and high-stakes decision-making in a highly governed industry.
• Strong knowledge of data modeling, database design, and segmentation techniques – critical to building scalable, efficient data structures that support accurate reporting and business insight.
• Experience gathering and translating complex system requirements – ensures you can bridge the gap between technical teams and business stakeholders to deliver the right solutions.
• Proficiency with SQL, data warehousing, and Big Data technologies – key for working hands-on with large-scale data environments and enabling reliable, high-performance data access.
• Understanding of cloud data platforms and modern architecture approaches – important as the business moves toward a more modern, scalable, cloud-first data ecosystem.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills – vital for navigating complex challenges and influencing senior stakeholders across IT and the wider business.

This is a chance to join a business at a key point in its data transformation, shaping how data drives decisions across the organisation. You’ll work with senior stakeholders to modernise legacy systems and build a scalable, cloud-ready environment. If you want to influence architecture and long-term strategy in a leading insurance organisation, this is a strong fit.