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Are you ready to shape the data backbone of an ambitious insurance business?
We’re on the lookout for a Data Architect to help us build a modern, scalable, and secure data estate that unlocks value across pricing, customer experience, operations, and regulatory reporting.
This role is central to our mission to become a truly data-driven organisation. You’ll play a key part in designing our future state architecture, guiding our move to an Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW), and enabling advanced analytics, governance, and data protection by design.
The role will focus on ensuring data integrity, scalability, security, and performance within the Microsoft Azure ecosystem, leveraging Databricks as the core platform for advanced analytics, data engineering, and machine learning.
The Data Architect will collaborate closely with stakeholders across the business and in particular with data engineering, data science, and pricing teams to optimise data solutions that drive business intelligence, predictive modelling, and real-time decision-making. The role also involves leading innovation by adopting best practices in cloud-based data architecture, ensuring alignment with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and industry standards.
Additionally, the Data Architect will play a key role in modernising and optimising data pipelines, enabling high-performance, cost-efficient, and scalable solutions that support AI-driven insights and pricing optimisation.

ABOUT SOMERSET BRIDGE GROUP

Somerset Bridge Group is dedicated to delivering fair products and innovative services in the insurance industry. Our group focuses on underwriting, broking, and claims handling to provide sustainable and innovative insurance solutions. Somerset Bridge Insurance Services Limited, operating under GoSkippy and Vavista, offers insurance coverage to over 700,000 customers. Somerset Bridge Limited handles underwriting and claims, processing almost 50,000 claims annually. Somerset Bridge Shared Services Limited provides essential support functions to ensure operational efficiency and compliance. With a strong commitment to values, culture, and customer service excellence, Somerset Bridge Group is recognised for its industry awards and growth. Join us to be part of a dynamic team that fosters creative thinking and personal development.
We are very proud to have been awarded a Silver Accreditation from Investors in People! We recognise that all of our people contribute to our success. That’s why we are always looking for talented people to join our team - people who share our vision, who are passionate about what they do, and who want to be part of something special.

• Design and implement robust, scalable, and secure data architectures within Microsoft Azure, with Databricks as the core platform for data engineering and analytics.
• Develop and optimise data models, ETL/ELT pipelines, and data processing frameworks using Databricks, Delta Lake, and other Azure data services.
• Ensure data solutions align with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and best practices in data governance, security, and compliance.
• Define and maintain data architecture standards, policies, and guidelines, ensuring scalability and long-term sustainability.
• Optimise and modernise data pipelines for efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and high performance, leveraging Databricks’ capabilities for big data processing and machine learning.
• Collaborate closely with data engineering, data science, and pricing teams to enable real-time analytics, AI-driven insights, and predictive modelling.
• Drive innovation by evaluating and implementing emerging cloud-based data technologies to enhance Somerset Bridge Group’s data strategy and competitive advantage.