Enterprise Data Architect

DXC Technology; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading service provider in the global commercial insurance community is seeking an Enterprise Data Architect to define and manage innovative data strategies. The role involves working with stakeholders to enhance data accessibility and governance, driving digital transformation in the London Insurance Market.

Benefits

Perks at Work

DXC incentives

Qualifications

• Proven track record defining and delivering innovative data strategies.
• Deep experience in data modeling, architecture, and analytics.

Responsibilities

• Define and manage an Enterprise Data Strategy.
• Conduct detailed analysis of business processes and produce high-quality Logical Data Models.
• Design data models for downstream data exposure and analytics.

Skills

Data Modelling

Data Architecture

Data Analytics

Stakeholder Management

Data Governance

Job description

This is a great opportunity for an Enterprise Data Architect to join a leading service provider to the global commercial insurance community. Accounting for more than £80 billion in financial settlements, the London Insurance Market is in a period of strategic change, delivering new digital services as defined in the vision set out by the Lloyd’s of London Blueprint II

As the provider of core Premiums and Claims processing services the DXC London Market Account is set to play a pivotal role in the overall market transformation and requires an Enterprise Data Architect with a proven track record defining and delivering innovative data strategies employing cutting-edge technology to the end-to-end management of the data life cycle.

The successful candidate will have deep experience in Data Modelling, Data Architecture and Data Analytics, will have a clear understanding of the importance of up-to-date, accurate and accessible data to the enterprise and a clear vision of how to leverage data to aid business decisions and drive revenue potential through reporting , analytics and optimisation.

Reporting to the Chief Architect, the Enterprise Data Architect will be accountable for defining and governing solutions for a digital transformation program that will deliver a new, API-enabled platform providing open access to an ecosystem of Insurance companies, service providers, and product vendors to drive business value through improved accuracy and availability of data, reduced manual processing overheads as well as real-time and analytical insights.

Responsibilities as the Enterprise Data Architect:

• Define and manage an Enterprise Data Strategy, supporting the business strategy and objectives.
• Conduct detailed analysis of business processes, requirements, and scenarios to produce high quality Logical Data Models and work with senior stakeholders, third party partners, and standards organisations to gain approval for finished artefacts.
• Work with and customise Industry Standard Logical Data Models to produce and maintain models tailored to the specific business domain.
• Define , document and maintain business value chain for enterprise data.
• Analyse business processes to identify and document key data dependency through key end-to-end business process flows.
• Work with internal and external development teams and technical architects to drive logical service architecture design, external API contract design, and internal physical data model design.
• Work with Technical BA's to analyse existing system behaviour, data models and business process implementations to facilitate logical to physical data mapping into existing systems to drive system integration designs and data transformation.
• Design data models and patterns for downstream data exposure to facilitate accessibility for and analytics, BI, MI and reporting, both internal and external .
• Work with external 3rd party standards bodies to define and maintain global messaging standards.
• Based on business process analysis, understand and document life cycles of key data entities and define non-functional requirements for data consistency, integrity , availability, latency, and auditability.
• Work with Security Architects to define and agree on data security classifications for data defined in data models.
• Define and manage data governance framework for the program and work with existing architecture team to hand into BAU.

Skills and Experience as Enterprise Data Architect:

• Experience in defining high quality Logical Data Models and gaining approval for such models in a complex stakeholder environment.
• Experience of stakeholder management including senior stakeholders, 3rd party partners and standards organisations.
• Experience of working with industry standard data models and extending those models to support business requirements.
• Experience of working in an insurance business domain and with insurance logical data models, including commercial insurance.
• Experience with a wide variety of technical domains from green field microservice architectures to workflow management systems, integration tooling and mainframe.
• Experience of Logical Physical data mapping and of large-scale transformation projects moving from complex legacy system domains to modern digital applications.
• Experience of defining transition plans and road maps for data migration, including both bulk and gradual migration.
• Experience of defining patterns for and implementing BI/MI, analytics, and machine learning on large-volume datasets.
• Experience of data designing and implementing data security policies and regulatory compliance.
• Experience of defining and implementing governance processes for data management.
• Experience of working with external standards organisations.
• Experience of working with TOGAF framework.
• Perks at Work
• DXC incentives

DXC Technology is committed to the development of a fully inclusive workforce. All applications for employment are assessed purely on merit, against the capabilities and competencies required for the role.

DXC Technology does not discriminate on the basis of gender, ethnic origin, race, faith or sexual orientation.

About the company

DXC Technology is an American multinational information technology services and consulting company headquartered Ashburn, Virginia.