Job Description
About our client
A large insurer is hiring a senior data and AI architecture leader to own its data and AI architecture strategy across multiple markets, while acting as lead designer on its most important data, analytics and AI initiatives. The role pairs strategic ownership with hands-on design authority, covering platform modernisation, consistent architecture standards, and the responsible scaling of cloud-native and generative AI capabilities in line with global policy and local regulation.
Responsibilities
- Serve as lead design authority on major data, analytics and AI programmes, keeping delivery scalable, secure and production-ready
- Build and develop a team of architects, raising consistency and capability across markets
- Own the architecture vision, roadmap and target state, aligned to commercial goals, global standards and regulation
- Advise senior technology, data and business leaders, and run the forums where architecture decisions get made
- Set enterprise standards for data quality, lineage, metadata and reference data, and standardise models, pipelines and lifecycle practices
- Govern cloud-native data and AI platforms and lead adoption of modern architecture and generative-AI delivery patterns
- Embed data security, privacy and responsible-AI controls suited to each market's regulatory environment
- Produce reusable blueprints and accelerators and ensure clean integration with core systems
Requirements
- Financial services or insurance background, with real exposure to regional markets and their regulators
- Extensive experience across data, analytics and enterprise architecture, including senior leadership or lead-architect roles
- Proven delivery of enterprise-scale data and AI platforms, ideally including greenfield builds or large-scale modernisation
- Deep cloud experience (Azure essential) and strong grounding in modern data architecture approaches
- Solid generative-AI and machine-learning architecture expertise
- The governance instinct, decision-making and executive presence to operate in a complex, multi-market environment
