Data Architecture Lead — Cloud & Governance

MS Reinsurance; Zürich; On-site; CHF 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

MS Reinsurance seeks a Data & Analytics Architect Lead to shape enterprise-wide data architecture, data products and information flows. You’ll translate business needs into scalable, trusted solutions, define target-state architecture and guide design while ensuring quality, security and governance.

Strong knowledge of Microsoft Fabric and modern cloud data platforms is required. You’ll lead architecture discussions, manage data product lifecycles, and collaborate with governance to embed

Qualifications

• Approximately 8 years of data architecture experience in a regulated environment.
• Approximately 8 years of reinsurance business and data knowledge.
• Approximately 8 years of experience in data engineering and business intelligence, with a strong understanding of the data delivery journey.
• Experience in business process modelling and information design, translating business needs into scalable data solutions.
• Experience defining data products and data contracts.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Fabric, Azure, Databricks or comparable cloud-based data platforms.
• Practical experience in data modelling, integration, data quality, lineage, metadata and governance.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to influence business and technical teams.
• Experience in agile or product-oriented environments, with focus on practical delivery and continuous improvement.
• Experience leading teams and managing priorities effectively.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain target-state data architecture across domains, platforms and consumption workflows.
• Translate business priorities into architecture decisions on platforms, integration, storage, semantic models, lineage, quality, security and operations.
• Maintain the Data Product framework covering ownership, consumers, data contracts, quality, lineage, metadata, service expectations and lifecycle management.
• Support Data Product identification, definition and lifecycle management, promoting reusable, scalable patterns.
• Map business processes, data creation, transformation, consumption and ownership; design future-state flows and system interactions.
• Represent data architecture in strategic initiatives from inception to delivery.
• Partner with the Data Governance Lead to embed metadata, lineage, ownership, quality and governance in solution designs.
• Uphold architecture principles, data standards and long-term sustainability while balancing delivery quality, speed and business priorities.
• Lead architecture discussions and decisions, documenting outcomes for executive, business and technical audiences.
• Lead functional teams and set up skills and priorities (act as CoE).

Skills

Data architecture

Data engineering

Business intelligence

Stakeholder engagement

Agile / product oriented

Team leadership

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Azure

Databricks

Job description

MS Reinsurance seeks a Data & Analytics Architect Lead to shape enterprise-wide data architecture, data products and information flows. You’ll translate business needs into scalable, trusted solutions, define target-state architecture and guide design while ensuring quality, security and governance.

Strong knowledge of Microsoft Fabric and modern cloud data platforms is required. You’ll lead architecture discussions, manage data product lifecycles, and collaborate with governance to embed