Senior Consultant/ Manager, Insurance Data Solution Architect Lead

at  Deloitte

REQ #

16318
Job description

CONNECT TO YOUR OPPORTUNITY

Take your career to the next level by joining one of the world’s best and most recognised professional services firms.
We are seeking to hire experienced Data Solution Architects in the Data & AI Architecture team of Deloitte’s AI & Data offering.
Data is the key enabler across the insurance industry, across a range of business functions.
Without a solid data foundation, clients struggle to achieve their vision for a data-powered future, including implementing advanced analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Our team delivers transformational data solutions to our insurance clients that benefit our clients, their customers and regulators.
The Insurance industry is undergoing a significant transformation, driven by the increasing importance of data and analytics.As enterprises seek to leverage data to drive better business outcomes, they are turning to decentralised data management approaches such as Data Mesh and choosing disruptive technologies to build innovative and domain-oriented data products.
A well-designed data solution architecture sits at the core of our clients’ strategy to enable the effective deployment of advanced analytics and AI models to gain competitive advantage in their respective industries and deliver better products and services to their customers.
Our Data & AI Architecture team specialises in ‘designing for data’: how to source it, how to store it, how to structure it, how to transform it, and how to consume it for wide variety of data-centric functionality, including data APIs, data monetisation, Gen AI, machine learning, management information, and reporting.
By joining Deloitte, you will have access to the best training and learning opportunities, allowing you to develop new skills and hone existing ones. You will be working in fast-paced teams with other highly talented, fun and motivated colleagues. We also encourage consideration of flexible ways of working, both formal and informal arrangements that allow for the best outcomes for our people and our clients. If this opportunity is of interest to you, please do discuss with us.

CONNECT TO YOUR SKILLS AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

We are looking for candidates who are able to demonstrate skills and experience in some of the following.

Essential

• Consulting experience, including working on client facing projects and experience of contributing to proposal writing, presentations and pre-sales activities
• Good in-depth expertise in functional areas in Insurance such as Finance, Risk, Underwriting, Pricing, Claims, Asset Management.
• Experience in data solution architecture e.g. establishing design principles, defining solution patterns while following architecture methodologies.
• Good understanding of data solutions, including data modelling, data management, data quality, master data management, reference data, reporting and visualisation, AI, analytics and self-service business intelligence.
• Experience in working with peers and senior enterprise solution/data architects to align data architecture blueprints across different business units and geographies.
• Experience in working within an architecture function and presenting architectural designs to a variety of stakeholders (incl. Technical Design Authorities or Architecture Boards).
• Experience in conducting architectural evaluation, design and analysis of enterprise-wide systems including on-premise and cloud-based solutions.
• Experience in engaging with both Business and IT stakeholders to document business outcomes and objectives for large-scale solutions and programmes.
• Identify requirements, analyse technology alternatives, and conduct product build vs buy recommendations.
• Business Analysis skills and experience such as requirements definition, information gathering, discovery and/or specification development.
• Demonstrate the ability to conduct discovery and design workshops.
• Be able to assimilate and apply new techniques and knowledge to achieve business outcomes.
• Possess good problem solving and analytical skills.
• Manage stakeholders using clear communications and be able to form strong client relationships.
• Demonstrate an ability to think and address challenges in a creative manner.
• Experience of leading multi-disciplinary teams in fast-paced project environments and demonstrate personal resilience.
• Ability to support ‘go-to-market’ activities such as responding to RFI / RFPs and developing high-quality proposal materials.

Desirable

• TOGAF certified or certification/good exposure to architecture and data management frameworks.
• Experience in Cloud technologies (e.g. AWS or Azure) to design and deliver enterprise data solutions including toolset selection, effort and cost estimation.
• Cloud Solution/Data Architect certification (AWS, GCP, Azure, Snowflake, Databricks) or broad knowledge across Cloud architecture, DevOps, Networking, Machine Learning, and Security.
• Experience and knowledge of delivering innovative enterprise data management frameworks e.g. Data Mesh.
• Demonstrate a good understanding of Data / Information Governance principles and familiarity with processes, policies and any of the key vendor platforms such as Collibra, Informatica.
• Experience as part of effective cross-geography teams, making effective use of offshore delivery teams.
• Experience with Management Information / BI Reporting delivery processes.
• Led design/solution workshops, including defining client requirements, document solutions and reviewing output with stakeholders.
• Good understanding of regulatory and compliance requirements such as GDPR, IFRS17, Solvency II.
• Work with technical design authorities to review and manage design decisions.
• Project Management experience of both waterfall and agile delivery approaches.

Our Senior Consultants and Managers work in a variety of projects to solve clients’ toughest data problems by combining consulting, industry experience, and analytical skills to create a lasting impact.
Whether it is designing a modern data solution architecture blueprint, defining a data model, or translating business requirements for data storage and consumption, we need the very best people to join us and strengthen our team even further. That is where you come in.
You will work with other architects with different areas of expertise to define end to end architectures that coherently enable a range of business processes and insurance functions.
You are an exceptional communicator, able to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders with ease. You have a strong ability to collaborate and work effectively in a team environment, leveraging the strengths of others to achieve common goals. You are outcome focussed and have a desire to be pragmatic in your approach to designing and delivering high-quality solutions that meet or exceed client expectations.

Responsibilities include:

• Defining and designing of end-to-end architectures that articulate what functions are required to support data and analytics activities.
• Helping market leading Insurance clients understand how they can use data and leverage cutting edge technologies to address challenges, ambitions, and objectives.
• Support the creation of strategic roadmaps for Data & AI capabilities required to generate insights from enterprise data assets.
• Work with client stakeholders to define a ‘common language for data’, so that data across the organisation can be interpreted and used consistently and efficiently for required purposes.
• Assess the as-is solution and suggest target solution architectures leveraging your expertise in Data & AI/Analytics tools and Cloud technologies.
• Managing effective, enthused and diverse teams within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution.
• Understanding the importance of stakeholder and change management and supporting development and implementation processes.
• Assisting in the further development of our market leading solution and delivery offerings and help produce proposal documents to showcase our capabilities to clients.
• Contributing to the development of our thriving Data and AI Architecture community.
• Contribute to client project delivery by owning one or more workstream(s) and ensuring commercially successful conclusion of the client engagements.
• Develop the capability of junior team members through ‘on the job’ training and formal development programmes.