Consulting Data Architect - Insurance

Location: London, England, United Kingdom

Department: Engineering

Workplace: hybrid

Employment Type: full

Description

Sedona Digital is a leading provider of IT Consulting and Services, specialising in Cloud Solutions, Software Engineering, Security, and Data & AI. We partner with enterprises to optimise their technology estates, delivering flexible engagement models ranging from augmentation to outcome-based projects and managed teams. 

Accelerate your development and exposure to high-performance financial services, digital and AI solutions. Join Sedona Digital, a fast-growing technology services provider specialising in the UK Insurance and Banking sector.

Our global client base and internal services delivery roadmap demand a wide range of capabilities. Business architects, product owners, PMs and architects leading our projects. Engineers, developers and QAs who love technology, have deep expertise in software, data and cloud technologies to deliver value fast, with a passion for culture and customers.

• We obsess about our customers
• We build outstanding technical solutions
• We create an awesome culture
• We accelerate learning and career 

Your responsibilities will include:

• Help our sales and presales solutions team to win new contracts by engaging with Insurance technology owners, data and AI lead to map business value delivery into data framework solutions.
• Define transformative data architecture engineering solutions, from project scope to backlog with our techs, PMs and POs. 
• Lead customer project delivery as a data architecture, AI enablement or data engineering lead on Insurance tech solution transformations. 
• Co-own the internal and customer-facing data framework and capabilities catalogue (and value delivery tracking) as part of our AI roadmap team, and Insurance solutions portfolio. 

Activities will include: 

• Lead data and AI metadata project discoveries with enterprise clients in UK Insurance and Banking. 
• Define data architecture and engineering patterns. 
• Design proportionate data and AI governance. 
• Assess data asset viability and RAG patterns. 
• Collaborate with business and tech SMEs and POs. 
• Support engineering teams to build data capabilities. 
• Design production readiness and governance. 
• Assist in change management and adoption activities.

Requirements

• 10 years working as a senior data architect, consultant or engineer in regulated enterprise data environments.
• 2 years working within UK insurance sector data projects (underwriting, claims, policy, actuarial, delegations, bordereau, Lloyds syndication etc). 
• 2 years working with MS Azure data technologies (Databricks on Azure, Synapse, Purview, SQL, ADF, Fabric, Python etc). 
• 6 months working with AI to augment or automate business process (RAG, classification, API and Prompt management, Observability & Audit for FCA/PRA etc)
• 6 months working with sales and commercial teams, pre-contract to close new business. 
• Demonstrable, proven ability to elicit, analyze, and document requirements and processes.
• Demonstrable, proven ability with applied data techniques including identification, pipelining/ETL, curation, chunking, modelling, data quality, cataloguing, lineage, package deployment.
• Hands-on experience with Agile methodologies and active participation in Agile ceremonies (e.g., sprint planning, retrospectives, backlog grooming).
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills with gravitas to lead workstreams and engage with C-suite.
• Self-motivated with the ability to work independently and lead BA/PO activities within a multidisciplinary team.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, changing environment. 

Benefits

• Private medical insurance
• Training on market trends and client needs, solutions & technologies including Microsoft Certs 
• 21 days annual leave, with one day per year extra up to 25 days 
• 1 day for your Birthday off
• 0.5 days Christmas Shopping off
• Competitive package