Job Title: Data Architect
Division: Data
Reports To: Head of Enterprise Architecture
Key Relationships: IT and Data Management, Data Science, Actuarial, Business Analysts, Platform Leads, Product Owners, Business Stakeholders
Job Summary:
Beazley’s data reflects the complexity of our business, and our data architecture is in need of modernisation and rationalisation. We seek a talented data architect to help us meet these challenges. Our data architect must be a passionate data expert, able to excite and influence stakeholders to meet our common goals - this role is essential to our transformation into a digital company in order to meet our ambitious growth plans.
Key Responsibilities:
The successful candidate will be responsible for:
- Defining our current data state in business terms, including but not limited to:
- Owning and improving our corporate business data model
- Documenting our data lineage across our business processes, identifying both value opportunities and where data quality issues arise
- Owning and improving our business data glossary and dictionary, and working with our data team to drive awareness and value from it
- Proposing a target state for our business data architecture that enables our strategic outcomes and is deliverable with realistic business and technology transformation.
- Collaborating with our architecture community to map this current and target data view onto the rest of our architecture to shape our transition to target and unlock data value early
- Strengthening and implementing data standards across our business to help ensure we meet our growth, efficiency, digitisation and new opportunity strategies
- Collaborating with our data community under the guidance of our Head of Data to drive understanding and elevate the importance of data to our future across Beazley
- Working as part of the wider data architecture team to meet our modernisation and rationalisation objectives across our traditional relational database estate and our emerging target event streaming architecture
- Taking on specific data architecture challenges, working them through solution design and ensuring implementation meets our standards
- Acting as a trusted consultant across our business as we explore, investigate and troubleshoot data opportunities and issues.
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 data architects under the guidance of our Head of Data and Head of Enterprise Architecture to shape this team, with potential leadership opportunities for outstanding candidates.
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:
Education:
Bachelor's degree in data relevant area such as STEM, finance, economics or a related field of study desirable but not essential
Knowledge & Experience:
- Data modelling, data lineage, data ownership and stewardship
- Driving data quality improvement
- Use of data dictionaries and glossaries to enable common data conversations and standards
- Design and implementation of those data standards
- Collaboration with technologists to realise business data goals
- Extensive knowledge of and experience with RDBMS architectures
- Ability to synthesise complex data problems into logical models and physical solutions
- Knowledge of and experience with Graph and Event Streaming architectures desirable but not essential – we wish to upskill / train our architects in these emerging areas.
- Familiarity with information management practices
- Knowledge of business re-engineering principles and processes,
- Strong 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.
Competencies
- Highly supportive of the business and of its ideals and strategies,
- 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 wider strategy,
- Effective at driving short-term actions that are consistent with long-term goals,
- Is motivated by long-term results
- Stakeholder management, understanding of needs, and influencing
- Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation,
- Excellent problem solving and analytical skills,
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Rewards
- The opportunity to connect and build long-lasting professional relationships while advancing your career with a growing, global organization
- Attractive base compensation and discretionary performance related annual bonus
- Private medical insurance coverage for both you and your dependents
- Company paid life assurance and long term disability insurance
- Pension with 10% employer contribution, plus a further matched contribution up to 2.5%
- 25 days of annual leave (prorated for 1st calendar year of employment), plus public holidays, with the ability to flex the religious bank holidays to suit your religious beliefs, subject to approval. Additional annual leave purchase is also available up to a maximum of five additional days per year.
- Up to 2.5 days matched paid leave for volunteering at a charity of your choice and 5 days paid leave to provide or arrange care for a dependent with a long term care need annually
- Up to £550 reimbursement towards home office setup
- Free in-office lunch and monthly lifestyle allowance
- Monthly travel allowance or annual season ticket
- The opportunity to save for, and purchase, shares of Beazley stock
- Six months fully paid parental leave, regardless of how you come to parenthood
- Company paid sabbatical up to 12 weeks after 10 years of continued service
- Support with exam/study leave and fees for relevant qualifications related to furthering education
- Smart working policy and flexible working culture, trusting our employees to do what works best for them, their role and the needs of the business
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. |