Lead Data Architect
Role: Data Consulting Lead – Insurance (Data Architecture, Data Products & AI Platforms)
Location: Horsham, UK (Hybrid)
Employment Type : Inside IR35 Contract
Job Description:
Role Summar
ySenior Data Consulting Lead with deep expertise in Data Architecture, Data Products, and AI-led Platforms, specialising in Insurance (with focus on Specialty Lines). This role drives enterprise-scale data and AI transformation, shaping modern data ecosystems, AI platforms, and AI-driven migration strategies on Azure, Databricks, and Power BI. A recognised thought leader, responsible for influencing C-level stakeholders, defining strategy, and delivering measurable outcomes through data + AI convergence
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Required Experience & Skil
lsCore Experien
- ce12–18+ years across Data, Analytics, AI Platforms, and Architectu
- reProven leadership of large-scale data and AI transformation programm
- esStrong experience in consulting, stakeholder engagement, and solution shapi
ngInsurance Experti
- seStrong domain expertise in Insurance (with exposure to Specialty Line
- s)Understanding of underwriting, claims, pricing, regulatory reporting data mode
- lsExperience mapping data products to insurance business capabiliti
esAI & Data Platform Experti
- seExperience designing and implementin
- g:AI/ML platforms (MLOps, model lifecycle management, feature store
- s)AI-enabled data pipelines and intelligent automation framewor
- ksExposure t
- o:GenAI / LLM use cases in data (RAG, knowledge graphs, copilot
- s)AI-driven migration and code/data modernisation approach
esTechnical Experti
- seStrong hands-on / architectural expertise i
- n:Azure data ecosystem (ADF, Synapse, Fabric, ADL
- S)Databricks (Delta Lake, Spark, ML workflow
- s)Power BI (enterprise analytics & semantic laye
- r)Strong grounding i
- n:Data modelling (dimensional, domain-drive
- n)Data governance, lineage, catalogui
- ngIntegration patterns (batch, streaming, API
s)Leadership & Consulting Skil
- lsExecutive stakeholder engagement (CIO/CDO/AI leader
- s)Ability to translate business problems into data + AI solutio
- nsStrong storytelling and influencing capabili
- tyExperience building data/AI CoEs and scalable delivery mode
