Senior Insurance Data Product Analyst

accelerant; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Accelerant seeks a Data Product Analyst to lead insurance-domain data product design, alignment, and governance within a data mesh. You will translate underwriting, pricing, claims, and finance needs into data specifications and ensure semantic accuracy and regulatory compliance.

With 6–10 years in data-aligned roles, you will collaborate with data engineering, governance, and business domains to manage lifecycle, backlogs, and adoption, delivering audit-ready lineage and documentation.

Qualifications

• Typically 6–10 years in data-aligned roles (e.g., data product, BI/analytics engineering, data governance/stewardship).
• Strong structured communication and ability to drive alignment across Finance/Actuarial/Operations.
• Working knowledge of modern data platforms, pipelines, and semantic modelling concepts.
• Governance-by-design mindset with definitions, metadata, lineage, and quality thresholds embedded into delivery.

Responsibilities

• Translate domain needs across underwriting, pricing, claims, finance, and distribution into data product specifications with clear scope, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.
• Define and maintain core insurance entities and relationships (e.g., policy, coverage, risk, claim, exposure, transaction), including grain and aggregation rules.
• Define standard insurance metrics and logic (e.g., written/earned premium, loss ratio, frequency, severity, reserves) and ensure consistency across consuming teams.
• Ensure the data product model accurately represents complex structures such as multi-line policies, endorsements, reinsurance structures, claims development, and reserving movements.
• Design, enhance, and maintain data products in collaboration with data engineering and platform teams.
• Oversee the full data product lifecycle, including versioning, enhancements, deprecation, and backward compatibility.
• Support domain prioritization and roadmap planning for data products; maintain a transparent backlog aligned to business outcomes and OKRs.
• Define and maintain documentation to ensure certified data products are shipped with metadata including definitions, lineage, and quality expectations.
• Collaborate with Data Quality and Data Governance teams to apply federated standards while preserving domain ownership.
• Define and execute validation and testing strategies for reliability across analytics and reporting consumers.
• Perform impact analysis and coordinate change management for schema/metric/logic changes across domains; communicate changes clearly.
• Act as the primary point of contact for data product consumers; support adoption, interpretation, and self-service enablement.
• Contribute to reusable templates and coach domain SMEs in applying them consistently.

Skills

Strong structured communication

Ambiguity management

Data platforms & semantic modelling

Governance-by-design mindset

Job description

Accelerant seeks a Data Product Analyst to lead insurance-domain data product design, alignment, and governance within a data mesh. You will translate underwriting, pricing, claims, and finance needs into data specifications and ensure semantic accuracy and regulatory compliance.

With 6–10 years in data-aligned roles, you will collaborate with data engineering, governance, and business domains to manage lifecycle, backlogs, and adoption, delivering audit-ready lineage and documentation.