Senior Life & Annuity Data Architect — Enterprise Platforms

Accenture; Carmel (IN); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a senior data architecture leader to define and own the long‑term data architecture vision for ALIP across staging, analytics, and integration. You will set standards, governance, and roadmaps to improve data usability and business value for life insurance and annuity clients.

You will guide implementations, map data structures to downstream systems, and drive modern, event‑driven architectures with scalable, repeatable patterns across client engagements.

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.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the long-term data architecture vision across ALIP, ALIP Staging, Q&I, 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 architecture

Event-driven architecture

Distributed systems

Data architecture leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Data warehouses

ETL tooling

Reporting platforms

Job description

Accenture is seeking a senior data architecture leader to define and own the long‑term data architecture vision for ALIP across staging, analytics, and integration. You will set standards, governance, and roadmaps to improve data usability and business value for life insurance and annuity clients.

You will guide implementations, map data structures to downstream systems, and drive modern, event‑driven architectures with scalable, repeatable patterns across client engagements.