VP of AI Data Engineering & Strategy

Hartford; Hartford (CT); Hybrid; USD 222,000 - 334,000; Full time

Job summary

The Hartford seeks a visionary Vice President of AI Data Engineering to lead the Business Insurance data portfolio. You will shape strategy, governance, and delivery of scalable AI-ready data foundations, partnering with business and technology leaders.

In this hybrid role based in Hartford or NYC/NJ, you will drive modernization, ensure trusted data products, and enable generative AI and agentic analytics with strong leadership and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field (advanced degree preferred)
• 18+ years in data engineering, data platforms, or related disciplines
• 10+ years in progressive leadership roles
• Experience translating business strategy into data engineering strategy and roadmaps
• Proven ability to establish enterprise data-product, semantic-layer, or data-intelligence capabilities
• Experience enabling analytics, generative AI, RAG, or agentic analytics with governance and data foundations
• Proven collaboration across Data Engineering, Analytics, AI, Architecture, Product, Governance, Risk, and business teams
• Experience managing large budgets, workforce resources, and vendor relationships
• Strong business/financial acumen connecting data/AI to business outcomes
• Executive communication, judgment, and ability to influence leadership
• PCC/Property & Casualty or Business Insurance experience preferred

Responsibilities

• Define and champion BI AI Data Engineering strategy and portfolio plans
• Set priorities and allocate resources across data products and AI-ready foundations
• Ensure delivery of scalable data products, pipelines, and data foundations
• Lead agentic analytics strategy enabling governed AI agents
• Build enterprise data intelligence layers with metadata, ontologies, graphs, and lineage
• Establish reusable semantic layers and governed business metrics
• Partner with executives to deliver data products aligned to business goals
• Define operating model and controls for agentic data and analytics
• Connect Data Engineering to underwriting, pricing, distribution, servicing, claims, risk, and finance
• Guide evolution of metadata, embeddings, vector/graph tech, retrieval, grounding
• Establish data quality, testing, lineage, observability, SLAs, and governance
• Promote responsible AI-assisted engineering with human oversight
• Lead a large organization through senior leaders, talent and capability growth
• Own portfolio delivery, cost effectiveness, risk management, and value realization
• Collaborate with business/tech leaders to align priorities and platform capabilities
• Remove barriers and steer large multidimensional initiatives
• Represent BI AI Data Engineering to governance bodies and vendors

Skills

Data engineering

Executive leadership

AI/ML readiness

Strategy & roadmap

Communication & storytelling

Python

SQL

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Business, or related field

Tools

Snowflake

Spark

Kafka

Cloud-native technologies

Job description

The Hartford seeks a visionary Vice President of AI Data Engineering to lead the Business Insurance data portfolio. You will shape strategy, governance, and delivery of scalable AI-ready data foundations, partnering with business and technology leaders.

In this hybrid role based in Hartford or NYC/NJ, you will drive modernization, ensure trusted data products, and enable generative AI and agentic analytics with strong leadership and cross-functional collaboration.