Data & Reporting Client Partner

Xceedance; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Xceedance is seeking a Data & Reporting Client Partner to lead critical data and reporting initiatives on-site in Boston. You will bridge business strategy with data architecture, EDW modernization, and BI delivery, acting as the trusted technology voice for the US-based client leadership.

The role requires deep experience in cloud data platforms and a proven track record delivering multi-year transformations for insurance clients.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in IT with senior client-facing technology leadership.
• Experience implementing cloud data platforms end-to-end.
• Strong writing and presentation skills for executive audiences.

Responsibilities

• Act as trusted technology advisor to client CDO and data leadership.
• Lead multi-year data and technology transformation initiatives.
• Define data-driven transformation roadmaps with business leaders.
• Oversee EDW modernization and BI reporting architecture.
• Collaborate with onshore/offshore teams to ensure delivery.

Skills

IT leadership

Data architecture

Databricks

Snowflake

Cloud platforms

BI reporting

Executive mgmt

Client consulting

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Job Title: Data & Reporting Client Partner

Location: Onsite in Boston

Who We Are

Xceedance provides strategic operations support, technology, and data services to drive efficiencies for insurance organizations worldwide. We collaborate with insurers, reinsurers, MGAs, brokers, and captives to launch products, implement intelligent technology, deploy advanced analytics, and achieve business process optimization. We are committed to adding direct value in the business of insurance and help our clients to embrace change, accelerate innovation, and achieve meaningful business outcomes.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a senior technology and client-facing leader who can bridge business strategy, Data architecture, Reporting and execution. This individual will serve as the trusted technology advisor to client leadership while partnering with Xceedance delivery teams to drive successful transformation outcomes in Data and Reporting area.

Based in Boston and embedded with the client, this role is the senior Xceedance technology voice in the US time zone — shaping the technology agenda alongside client executives, framing modernization opportunities, and translating business ambition into architecture and delivery reality across one of our most significant strategic accounts.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Act as the trusted technology advisor to client CDO, Data Architect, and Reporting Portfolio leadership.
• Lead largescale, multi‑year data and technology transformation initiatives
• Partner with business and technology leaders to establish a clear vision and roadmap for data-driven transformation.
• Assess current data ecosystems and identify opportunities to improve scalability, agility, and business outcomes.
• Collaborating with the Head of Data and Governance for project design and influence requirements
• Provide strategic guidance on EDW modernization, new data platform implementation, BI Reporting and Data architecture decisions.
• Serve as the single point of contact for discussions from Xceedance in the US time zone on data and reporting.
• Participate in person in discussions and decisions, replacing multi-cycle email exchanges with real-time resolution.
• Proactively surface risks, mitigations, and trade-offs to senior leadership, with clear articulation of business impact.
• Build relationships across client’s Data, EDW, BI and production support teams, sharing knowledge and increasing alignment between organizations.

Growth & Transformation Enablement

• Drives data management architectural vision and strategy to support business needs.
• Designs and integrates key systems that change overall corporate data strategy and direction.
• Facilitates the development and evolution of architecture and data governance processes.
• Partner with account leadership to identify modernization, and execution on data and Reporting transformation opportunities within client portfolios.
• Identify expansion opportunities ahead of formal demand generation, converting on-the-ground insight into qualified pipeline.
• Contribute technical strategy, solution shaping, and differentiated content to proposals, RFPs, and transformation bids.
• Shape technology-led consulting engagements that position Xceedance ahead of competing vendors.

Architecture & Solution Strategy

• Deep experience with medallion (bronze/silver/gold) architectures — efficient load design, de-dup strategy at ingestion, and grain/key discipline through each layer
• Lead data modeling initiatives, including logical, physical, dimensional design, across various platforms of data marts, data warehouses, and data lake
• Design and present multi-layer ELT/ETL pipelines
• Maintains strong current knowledge of key advances, data technology, industry trends, and systems development techniques.
• Utilizes expertise to partner on the design of data & reporting solutions, planning technology migrations, vendor or product selection, and solution integration.
• Establish and maintain Data governance frameworks, policies, standards, and procedures for infrastructure and security services.
• Research, evaluate, approve, and govern AI-enabled productivity tooling across Data and BI.

Delivery Governance & Execution

• Oversee the delivery of data, reporting, and analytics solutions that support strategic business priorities.
• Partner with Xceedance delivery leadership to ensure solutions are delivered as designed and committed.
• Filter, consolidate, and clarify requirements before engaging offshore teams, allowing those teams to focus on execution and delivery.
• Improve coordination across technology towers and between onshore and offshore teams, eliminating delays and communication gaps.
• Ensure leaders and teams are equipped with the context, clarity, and tooling required to execute effectively.
• Act as the senior technical escalation point, providing immediate response to emerging concerns, risks, and opportunities.
• Foster an enterprise-first, outcomes-driven culture focused on accountability, clarity, and execution excellence.

Reporting Structure

Matrix reporting relationship with Strategic Accounts leadership in the US and Technology & Digital leadership in India.

• Primary reporting line — SVP, Business Leader, Strategic Accounts (USA): client outcomes, account strategy, and commercial performance.
• Secondary reporting line — Vice President, Technology & Digital (India): architecture standards, solution quality, and delivery facilitation.

What You Bring:

Required

• 15+ years of IT experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Analytics, Data Management, or a related field.
• Experience in implementation of cloud data platforms end-to-end (design through production).
• Strong, hands‑on familiarity with Databricks and Snowflake.
• Cloud data platforms: AWS, Azure, or GCP (e.g., Redshift, Synapse, BigQuery).
• Data processing & orchestration: Spark, Airflow, dbt, Kafka.
• Data warehousing / Lakehouse: Delta Lake and equivalent patterns.
• Pipeline & integration: ETL/ELT design, streaming and batch, CDC.
• DataOps, data quality, governance, lineage, and observability practices.
• Client Consulting — advising senior client stakeholders in a consulting, advisory, or client‑facing technology leadership capacity.
• Cloud Architecture — cloud strategy, migration, and modernization across major public cloud platforms.
• Integration Strategy — integration approaches complex, heterogeneous enterprise landscapes.
• Delivery Leadership — ensuring architectural intent is realized across large‑scale delivery programs.
• Executive stakeholder management, with the presence and credibility to hold a room of client C‑suite leaders.

Preferred

• Hands‑on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and data technologies such as Databricks, Snowflake.

Industry Experience

Experience working with insurers, MGAs, reinsurers, brokers, or insurance technology ecosystems preferred. Familiarity with the operating model, regulatory environment, and platform landscape of the insurance industry will materially accelerate success in this role.

Measures of Success

Performance in this role will be assessed against outcomes, not activity:

Client Impact

• Recognized as a trusted advisor by client technology leadership, rather than as a remote delivery contact.
• Increased depth and frequency of executive engagement across the account.
• Demonstrated understanding of client technology and business strategy, priorities, and challenges reflected in advisory output.

Delivery Excellence

• Faster resolution of technical issues and architectural decisions.
• Reduced volume and severity of escalations and unresolved issues.
• Measurable improvement in confidence in Xceedance engineering capability across client stakeholders.
• Modernization roadmaps formally adopted by client leadership.
• Architecture standards implemented and sustained across account programs.
• Influence demonstrated over strategic decisions in cloud adoption, modernization, API strategy, and platform transformation.

Growth Enablement

• Technology‑led pipeline generated within the existing account ahead of formal demand.
• Improved win rates on RFPs and transformation proposals.
• Strategic account leadership actively supported in expanding scope and scale of the relationship.

What You Can Expect from Us

• A collaborative, entrepreneurial environment where your ideas drive change
• Opportunities to work with cutting‑edge technologies and a worldwide network of insurance experts
• A culture rooted in teamwork, integrity, continuous learning, and client success

At Xceedance, you will discover the possibility to exceed yourself and grow persistently with us. We offer career development opportunities to our members for a well‑rounded development throughout their journey with us. Xceedance is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.