Senior Director, Data Architecture & Platform Strategy

Starr Insurance Holdings, Inc.; City of Rochester (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Starr Insurance Holdings, Inc. in New York seeks a Senior Director, Data Architecture to champion enterprise data architectures and governance, reporting to the Chief Data Officer, and guiding data strategy across insurance domains.

You will lead a global team, drive cloud‑native architectures, lakehouse data models, and collaboration with engineering, analytics, and product to deliver scalable, compliant data platforms.

Qualifications

• 12+ years’ experience in data architecture and enterprise data management
• Experience leading architectural teams and driving modern data architectures
• Insurance industry experience, ideally within P&C and Specialty

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the data architecture vision and strategic roadmap
• Provide architectural oversight for data initiatives across global teams
• Develop standardized insurance data models and governance practices
• Lead the adoption of cloud-based data platforms and data lakehouse architectures

Skills

Data architecture

Data modeling

Cloud architectures

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Spark

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Starr Insurance Holdings, Inc. in New York seeks a Senior Director, Data Architecture to champion enterprise data architectures and governance, reporting to the Chief Data Officer, and guiding data strategy across insurance domains.

You will lead a global team, drive cloud‑native architectures, lakehouse data models, and collaboration with engineering, analytics, and product to deliver scalable, compliant data platforms.