Senior Life & Annuity Data Architect

Accenture; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a senior data architecture leader to own the long-term ALIP data strategy across ALIP, ALIP Staging, Q&I, and Digital Connect. You will set standards, governance, and a roadmap to deliver scalable, easy-to-consume data platforms for life insurance clients.

You will guide client implementations, map data structures to downstream systems, and drive evolution toward event-driven, real-time models, collaborating with product, engineering, and delivery teams.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in Data Architecture, Information Architecture, Data Engineering, or Enterprise Architecture.
• Minimum 6 years of experience designing enterprise data models and large-scale data platforms.
• Minimum 5 years of experience with data warehouses, reporting platforms, operational data stores, and integration architectures.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the long-term data architecture vision across ALIP, ALIP Staging, QI, Digital Connect, reporting, analytics, and integration solutions.
• Establish enterprise data architecture standards, principles, governance models, and architecture review practices for major ALIP data initiatives.
• Own the strategic roadmap for ALIP and ALIP Staging as core ALIP product capabilities, improving usability, consistency, completeness, and business value of the data structures.
• Define enhancements that simplify downstream data consumption for reporting, integrations, analytics, regulatory reporting, data warehouses, and enterprise data platforms.
• Serve as the primary ALIP data architecture advisor for client implementations and strategic pursuits.
• Help clients understand and leverage ALIP data assets, including ALIP Staging, within their enterprise data strategy.
• Guide clients and implementation teams in mapping ALIP data structures to downstream applications, enterprise data warehouses, data lakes, CRM platforms, regulatory reporting systems, finance systems, and analytics platforms.
• Create reusable mapping frameworks, reference architectures, accelerators, and implementation patterns that improve repeatability across clients.
• Identify recurring client data challenges and translate them into product roadmap improvements.
• Lead the evolution of ALIP data architecture toward modern, event-driven, CDC-based, streaming, and real-time consumption models.
• Partner with product, engineering, delivery, and client teams to improve scalability, maintainability, performance, and ease of adoption.

Skills

API-based architectures

Event-driven architectures

Distributed systems

Data governance

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Accenture is seeking a senior data architecture leader to own the long-term ALIP data strategy across ALIP, ALIP Staging, Q&I, and Digital Connect. You will set standards, governance, and a roadmap to deliver scalable, easy-to-consume data platforms for life insurance clients.

You will guide client implementations, map data structures to downstream systems, and drive evolution toward event-driven, real-time models, collaborating with product, engineering, and delivery teams.