Data Architect

Salary: £50,000 - 90,000 per year

Requirements:

• We are looking for a senior Data Architect or senior Data Consulting professional with strong experience across enterprise-scale data transformation programmes.
• We need someone who has operated across proposition development, pre-sales, solution shaping, architecture leadership, and programme delivery, ideally within consulting, insurance technology, or transformation environments.
• We are looking for someone who can engage and influence senior business, technology, and executive stakeholders and communicate complex ideas in business terms.
• We need strong commercial and operational awareness, with the ability to balance ambition, complexity, delivery risk, and value realisation.
• We are looking for proven leadership of multidisciplinary teams and architecture decisions across complex transformation initiatives.
• We need strong insurance domain knowledge in one or more areas such as underwriting, claims, pricing and rating, actuarial and reserving, capital modelling, finance, or regulatory reporting.
• We require experience with modern cloud-native data platforms, including data lakes, lakehouse, data warehouses, integration patterns, and API-led architectures.
• We need hands-on experience designing secure, scalable enterprise data platforms using technologies such as Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Databricks, and Snowflake.
• We require experience establishing data governance frameworks, operating models, metadata management, lineage, cataloguing, data quality, and master data management.
• We are looking for familiarity with governance and compliance tooling such as Microsoft Purview, Profisee, Informatica, and Collibra.
• We need strong knowledge of enterprise data modelling, information architecture, and data design principles, with proficiency in SQL and data modelling tools.
• We are looking for experience enabling reporting, analytics, and decision-support capabilities across insurance functions, including self-service analytics, management information, and performance reporting.
• We need understanding of emerging AI and MLOps platforms and the ability to design architectures that support trusted, governed, and scalable AI adoption.

Responsibilities:

• We will expect you to shape our go-to-market propositions by embedding modern data, analytics, and AI capabilities into market-facing solutions.
• You will collaborate with our Insurance and Technology Consulting leaders to develop differentiated data-led propositions.
• You will apply emerging data capabilities to improve transformation outcomes across underwriting, claims, actuarial, finance, and risk functions.
• You will contribute thought leadership and establish best practices for modern data platforms and operating models.
• You will support pre-sales activities by structuring compelling, commercially attractive, and pragmatic data solutions for insurance clients.
• You will partner with clients and consulting teams to understand business challenges and define practical data-centric solution approaches.
• You will develop proposals, presentations, and solution narratives that clearly articulate business value and data transformation outcomes.
• You will lead the design and oversee implementation of modern data capabilities that deliver measurable business results for insurance clients.
• You will define scalable target-state architectures, insurance data models, governance frameworks, and integration approaches aligned to business and technology objectives.
• You will provide data architecture leadership across complex transformation programmes and guide engineering teams through successful implementation.
• You will ensure solutions meet enterprise requirements for security, resilience, scalability, compliance, and operational excellence.

Technologies:

• AI
• API
• Architect
• Azure
• Cloud
• Databricks
• Fabric
• Informatica
• Support
• MLOps
• SQL
• Security
• Snowflake
• AWS
• Business Intelligence
• GCP
• ICT
• Power BI

More:

We are seeking a capable Consulting Data Architect to join our Insurance Technology Consulting practice and help shape, sell, and deliver data-led consulting engagements for insurance clients. This is a UK-based hybrid role in London with a global client and delivery remit, reporting to the Head of Architecture Advisory, Insurance Technology Consulting. We work at the intersection of insurance consulting, data architecture, and business development, supporting transformation initiatives across underwriting, claims, pricing, reserving, capital modelling, risk, and finance operations. We offer a comprehensive benefits package including 25 days of annual leave plus an extra WTW day, private healthcare, life insurance, group income protection, health assessments, a defined contribution pension with matched contributions up to 10%, hybrid working, employee assistance support, a fully paid volunteer day, and optional perks such as an EV car scheme, share scheme, cycle-to-work programme, dental and optical cover, and critical illness protection. We are committed to equal opportunity and provide adjustments and accommodations throughout the application, interview, and workplace journey.

last updated 34 week of 2026