Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Selective Insurance is a midsized U.S. domestic property and casualty insurance company with a strong history of financial performance. They are seeking a Data and Analytics Architect responsible for designing data platforms and applications, establishing architecture patterns, and collaborating with IT and business partners to enhance data and analytics capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Works with Delivery Managers to balance rapid delivery of business solutions with sound technical solutions and on development team member competencies, skills, and overall productivity
- Collaborate with Delivery teams to define, select, and implement data, analytics, and information solutions that consider business objectives and meet non-functional requirements
- Assist the Enterprise Architect in the planning process for new business initiatives through buy/build recommendations, vendor solutions evaluations, assessing designs against company standards, evaluating technical risk and define and align technology and roadmaps with business strategies
- Monitor trends and evaluates emerging technologies that are candidates for the future state data and analytics architecture or evolving business strategy and supports vendor analysis and proofs-of-concept to validate new technologies, solutions, and designs as needed
- Provide mentorship and guidance to Junior Architects and Developers in data and analytics technologies, best practices, innovation, designs, and processes
- Assists with tier 2 application production issues and challenging issues in any phase of the development lifecycle. Supports continuous improvement by identifying and proposing tuning opportunities
- Identifies opportunities to increase efficiency, quality, and speed to market. Proposes actions to realize opportunities and advocates for DevOps/DataOps opportunities
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
- 7 to 10 years of experience in Data and Analytics Architecture
- Understanding of Data Design methodologies and their application in complex multi-tier systems
- Knowledge of Real Time, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Oriented Architecture (WOA)
- Strong understanding of Data warehouses, Data Marts and Data Lake
- Ability to develop and architect solutions based on non-functional requirements
- Superior technical knowledge in Data Quality, Standards, Governance, and Design
- Ability to effectively work well with people in other departments and/or outside of the enterprise
- Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication and the ability to communicate with audiences at varying technical levels
- P&C Insurance industry experience
- Experience with Power BI, Azure ML, Azure Databricks, IICS and/or Informatica PowerCenter
- Experience architecting and data modeling in Azure ecosystem
Benefits
- Competitive base salary
- Incentive plan eligibility at all levels
- Comprehensive health care plans
- Retirement savings plan with company match
- Discounted Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Tuition assistance and reimbursement programs
- Paid time off plans
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