Senior Data & Analytics Architect: Cloud & Real-Time Analytics

Selective Insurance Company of America; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 163,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Incentive plan eligibility

Health care plans

Retirement plan with company match

Tuition assistance

Paid time off

Job summary

Select ive Insurance Company of America is seeking a Sr. Data and Analytics Architect to design data platforms and applications across cloud and hybrid environments.

You will define standards, patterns, data models, and data flows in collaboration with IT teams and business partners to enable scalable analytics solutions. The role focuses on governance, data quality, and secure analytics adoption, mentoring junior staff, and aligning technology roadmaps with business strategy within a leading

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or other related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years of experience in Data and Analytics Architecture.
• P&C Insurance industry experience preferred.
• Understanding of Data Design methodologies and their application in complex multi-tier systems.
• Knowledge of Real Time, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Oriented Architecture (WOA).
• Strong understanding of Data warehouses, Data Marts and Data Lake.
• Ability to develop and architect solutions based on non-functional requirements.
• Experience with Power BI, Azure ML, Azure Databricks, IICS and/or Informatica PowerCenter is preferred.
• Experience architecting and data modeling in Azure ecosystem is preferred.
• Superior technical knowledge in Data Quality, Standards, Governance, and Design
• Ability to effectively work well with people in other departments and/or outside of the enterprise.
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication and the ability to communicate with audiences at varying technical levels.

Responsibilities

• Works with Delivery Managers to balance rapid delivery of business solutions with sound technical solutions and on development team member competencies, skills, and overall productivity.
• Collaborate with Delivery teams to define, select, and implement data, analytics, and information solutions that consider business objectives and meet non-functional requirements.
• Assist the Enterprise Architect in the planning process for new business initiatives through buy/build recommendations, vendor solutions evaluations, assessing designs against company standards, evaluating technical risk and define and align technology and roadmaps with business strategies.
• Monitor trends and evaluates emerging technologies that are candidates for the future state data and analytics architecture or evolving business strategy and supports vendor analysis and proofs-of-concept to validate new technologies, solutions, and designs as needed.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to Junior Architects and Developers in data and analytics technologies, best practices, innovation, designs, and processes.
• Assists with tier 2 application production issues and challenging issues in any phase of the development lifecycle. Supports continuous improvement by identifying and proposing tuning opportunities.
• Identifies opportunities to increase efficiency, quality, and speed to market. Proposes actions to realize opportunities and advocates for DevOps/DataOps opportunities.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or other related field, or equivalent work experience

Tools

Power BI

Azure ML

Azure Databricks

IICS

Informatica PowerCenter

Job description

Select ive Insurance Company of America is seeking a Sr. Data and Analytics Architect to design data platforms and applications across cloud and hybrid environments.

You will define standards, patterns, data models, and data flows in collaboration with IT teams and business partners to enable scalable analytics solutions. The role focuses on governance, data quality, and secure analytics adoption, mentoring junior staff, and aligning technology roadmaps with business strategy within a leading