Lead Data Product Architect

Data is one of Beazley's greatest assets and our data reflects the complexity of our business. Our data architecture is in the process of modernisation and rationalisation. Your role will be essential to our transformation into a digital company to meet our ambitious growth plans.

As the Lead Data Products Architect, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining our organization's data products to support our business objectives. In this role, you will work closely with cross-functional teams to identify and analyse business information, create data models, and set standards to ensure data quality and integrity. Within your role, you will have responsibility for modelling and ensuring that conceptual, logical and physical models are created aligned to data product requirements. You will work with IT, the Data Team and Beazley's business stakeholders to mature data capabilities as Beazley undertakes a significant investment in modernization, enabling you to embed a culture of data excellence.

Key Responsibilities:

Design our data infrastructure and delivery to create efficient, high quality data products aligned to business stakeholder and analytic reporting needs. Lead the design and governance, including Data Design Authority, to drive standards and collaboration across the central and federated teams delivering data products.

Lead and govern the design, development, and delivery of Beazley Data Products, ensuring they are scalable, secure, and aligned with Beazley's data strategy and frameworks.

• Source aligned: raw data from operational systems

• Enterprise Data Products: curated, standardised and aggregated data for business use

• Business Aligned Data Products - combinations of data products to support insight

• Analytics Products - modelled data used to drive dashboards, analytics, process automation and enhanced operations

Change Management:

• Oversee change projects that impact data patterns and flows, ensuring smooth transitions, reuse and minimal disruption to business operations

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to manage the impact of changes on data architecture

Data Modelling:

• Manage the data modelling team and the creation and maintenance of logical and conceptual data models to support business requirements

• Ensure data models are aligned with data product requirements and support efficient data integration and analysis

Governance and Compliance:

• Establish and enforce data governance policies and standards to ensure data quality, integrity, and compliance with regulatory requirements

• Oversee the documentation and management of data products, ensuring they meet architectural standards

Quality Assurance:

• Implement and oversee processes to ensure the quality and reliability of data products across Beazley

• Conduct regular audits and reviews to identify areas for improvement and ensure continuous enhancement of data products

Leadership and Collaboration:

• Influence the Data Factory (a team of data architects, analysts, data engineers, etc), federated data teams, projects, and other stakeholders to foster a culture of data excellence

• Collaborate with business stakeholders, IT, and other departments to ensure data products meet business objectives and drive value

Technical Expertise:

• Provide technical guidance on data architecture, data integration, and data management to ensure Data Product best practices are supported and implemented effectively

• Stay updated with the latest technologies and trends in data architecture and analytics to drive innovation

Stakeholder Engagement:

• Engage with business stakeholders to understand their data needs and translate them into technical requirements

• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to ensure alignment and understanding

We recognise that we need to raise our data game in Beazley and to that end are growing a significant data architecture practice; this role will work with other architects, modelers and engineers under the guidance of our CDO, Head of Data Products, and IT Head of Enterprise Architecture.

General

At Beazley we are committed to doing the right thing because it is the right thing to do. It is important that within all your interactions both internally and externally you adhere to this principle through adoption of Beazley's core values and behaviours.

* Adopt the Beazley culture of being bold, striving for better and do the right thing. This contributes to an internal environment of teamwork and promotes a positive brand image and experience to all our external customers.

* Comply with Beazley procedures, policies and regulations including the code of conduct which incorporates the PRA and FCA Conduct Rules. Undertake training on Beazley policies and procedures as delivered by your line manager, Talent Management or assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) either directly, via e-learning or the learning management system.

* Display business ethics that uphold the interests of all our customers.

* Ensure all interactions with customers are focused on delivering a fair outcome, including having the right products for their needs.

* Comply with any specific responsibilities necessary for your role as outlined by your line manager, Talent Management or assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) and ensure you keep up to date with developments in these areas. This may include, amongst others, Beazley's underwriting control standards, Beazley's claims control standards, other Beazley standards and customer relationship management.

* Carry out additional responsibilities as individually notified, either through your objectives or through the learning management system. These may include membership of any Beazley committees or working groups.

Personal Specification:

We're looking for candidates with experience designing and implementing data architecture strategies. Someone who has a proven track record of implementing enterprise data standards and maturing the capability to deliver advantage and enhance value delivery across a business. The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate technical data skills including database and data processing design and implementation and should have the ability to innovate, manage and encourage performance, motivate peers, and collaborate at the highest levels of an organization. The successful candidate should have a passion for data and a curious mindset both for Beazley and the wider insurance industry. Great communication skills across all levels of seniority and the ability to represent data internally and externally to our colleagues, and clients will also be important. If you describe yourself as a team player, a passionate data expert, are enthusiastic, possess a high level of integrity and the willingness to make a significant contribution, we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity!

Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to identify and help the business to assess options and solutions that best fit requirements

• Neutral toward technology, vendor, and product choices; more interested in results than in personal preferences

• Ability to work with projects and change initiatives to deliver their goals without compromising the delivery of the wider strategy

• Effective at driving short-term actions that are consistent with long-term goals

• Ability to synthesise complex data problems into logical models and physical solutions

• Strong team and stakeholder management, understanding of needs, and influencing with the ability to communicate concisely

• Exceptional interpersonal skills, including collaboration, facilitation, and negotiation

• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills

• Ability to manage time, meet deadlines and prioritise with agility should demands change

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Proven team player with ability to work with all levels in a highly intellectual, collaborative, and fast paced environment

Knowledge & Experience:

• Experience modernising data architecture to deliver products and services that make a difference!

• Understanding of insurance principles and strategic drivers, with London Insurance experience a plus

• Understanding of data models, standards and tools used across architecture, engineering

• Experience working with strategy and product development teams to support data needs

• Experience of delivering data governance and data policy fit for a global environment

• Team management with experience leading, motivating and driving teams to deliver

• Collaboration with technologists to translate business needs into data products

• Knowledge of large-scale data processing and data lake / warehousing solutions

• Extensive knowledge of relational and dimensional database structures, theories, principles, and practices

• Experience with batch and streaming processing, real-time applications, event-based architectures and pub/sub patterns

• Experience working in cloud environments

• Experience using data modelling tools such as SqlDBM

• Knowledge of business re-engineering principles and processes

• Modelling capability with the ability to clearly represent complex ideas graphically

• Familiar with a variety of modelling approaches, tools and model repositories

• Ability to translate complex domain specific concepts into knowledge that can be understood and consumed across domains

Who We Are:

Beazley is a specialist insurance company with over 30 years' experience helping people, communities and businesses to manage risk all around the world. Our mission is to inspire our clients and people with the confidence and freedom to explore, create and build - to enable businesses to thrive. Our clients want to live and work freely and fully, knowing they are benefitting from the most advanced thinking in the insurance market. Our goal is to become the highest performing sustainable specialist insurer.

Our products are wide ranging, from cyber & tech insurance to marine, healthcare, financial institutions and contingency; covering risks such as the weather, film production or protection from deadly weapons.

Our Culture

We have a wonderful mix of cultures, experiences, and backgrounds at Beazley with over 2,000 of us working around the world. Employee's diversity, experience and passion allow us to keep innovating and moving forward, delivering the best. We are proud of our family-feel culture at Beazley that empowers our staff to work from when and where they want, in an adult environment that is big on collaboration, diversity of thought and personal accountability. Our three core values inspire the way we work and how we treat our people and customers.

• Be bold
• Strive for better
• Do the right thing

Upholding these values every day has enabled us to become an innovative and responsive organization in touch with the changing world around us - our ambitious inclusion & diversity and sustainability targets are testament to this.

We are a flexible and innovative employer offering a friendly, collaborative, and inclusive working environment. We actively encourage and expect applications from all backgrounds. Our commitment to fostering a supportive and dynamic workplace ensures that every employee can thrive and contribute to our collective success.

Explore a variety of networks to assist with professional and/or personal development. Our Employee Networks include:

• Beazley RACE - Including, understanding and celebrating People of Colour
• Beazley SHE - Successful, High potential, Empowered women in insurance
• Beazley Proud - Our global LGBTQ+ community
• Beazley Wellbeing - Supporting employees with their mental wellbeing
• Beazley Families - Supporting families and parents-to-be

We encourage internal career progression at Beazley, giving you all the tools you need to drive your own career here, such as:

• Internal Pathways (helping you grow into an underwriting role)
• iLearn (our own learning & development platform)
• LinkedIn Learning
• Mentorship program
• External qualification sponsorship
• Continuing education and tuition reimbursement
• Secondment assignments

The Rewards

• The opportunity to connect and build long-lasting professional relationships while advancing your career with a growing, dynamic organization
• Attractive base compensation and discretionary performance related bonus
• Competitively priced medical, dental and vision insurance
• Company paid life, and short- and long-term disability insurance
• 401(k) plan with 5% company match and immediate vesting
• 22 days PTO (prorated for 1st calendar year of employment), 11 paid holidays per year, with the ability to flex the religious bank holidays to suit your religious beliefs
• Up to $700 reimbursement for home office setup
• Free in-office lunch, travel reimbursement for travel to office, and monthly lifestyle allowance
• Up to 26 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• Up to 2.5 days paid annually for volunteering at a charity of your choice
• Flexible working policy, trusting our employees to do what works best for them and their teams

Salary for this role will be tailored to the successful individual's location and experience. The expected compensation range for this position is $130,000-$140,000 per year plus discretionary annual bonus.

Don't meet all the requirements? At Beazley we're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't perfectly align with every requirement and qualification in the job specification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right candidate for this, or one of our other roles.