AVP, Data & AI Governance Manager

SiriusPoint • New York City, NY

8d • Hybrid

About The Position

SiriusPoint is seeking a strategic and operationally strong leader of Data & AI Governance to design, implement, and scale a modern enterprise data and AI governance framework across its global insurance and reinsurance operations. This role is responsible for operationalizing the enterprise data and AI governance framework across technology platforms, data domains, and business units. The position ensures that data used across underwriting, claims, finance, actuarial, ceded, and corporate functions is trusted, well-governed, secure, and compliant, while enabling responsible AI adoption and self-service analytics. The role involves close collaboration with Data Owners, Data Stewards, Data Platform teams, data architecture, enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, risk, compliance, and business leaders to mature governance standards, streamline data quality operations, and embed governance-by-design into ingestion, consumption, and AI-enabled processes.

Requirements

• 10+ years in data governance, risk, compliance, or data leadership roles.
• Experience in insurance, reinsurance, or financial services.
• Knowledge of: GDPR / UK GDPR, Cross-border data transfer rules, AI governance frameworks, Model risk management.
• Experience implementing governance tooling (e.g., Erwin, Collibra, Purview, etc.).
• Strong understanding of AWS-based data architectures.
• Experience supporting AI/ML governance.

Nice To Haves

• Exposure to Lloyd’s or specialty insurance markets.
• Familiarity with ACORD data standards.
• Knowledge of MGA/delegated authority data models.
• Experience with cloud-native governance controls (Lake Formation, Macie).
• Background in both data governance and AI governance.
• Familiarity with global data privacy and protection regulations.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement SiriusPoint’s global data governance operating model and chair the cross-functional Data Governance Committee.
• Define and enforce roles (Data Owner, Data Steward, Custodian, etc.).
• Establish enterprise data policies (classification, retention, quality, access, etc.).
• Operationalize governance within AWS/Cloud providers, 3rd party tools, and across domains.
• Work with Data Architects and Data Product leaders to rollout Erwin Data Intelligence platform.
• Develop and maintain AI governance framework aligned with various regulatory requirements, such as: EU AI Act, GDPR / UK GDPR, US state privacy laws, Lloyd’s and regulatory expectations.
• Chair the cross-functional AI Governance Committee.
• Establish Enterprise AI policy and model risk management standards.
• Define documentation, explainability, monitoring, and validation requirements.
• Manage the intake, cataloguing, evaluation, prioritization and oversight for GenAI and agentic use cases, both built in-house and consumed via 3rd party.
• Participate in 3rd Party Risk Management processes as it pertains to AI usage by vendors and partners.
• Partner with underwriting, claims, actuarial, etc. teams on AI controls.
• Ensure compliance with global privacy and data protection requirements, including but not limited to lawful cross-border data transfers (EU ↔ US), data minimisation and data retention.
• Oversee enterprise governance of data classification, including sensitive data (PII/PHI) across A&H and delegated authority business.
• Partner with Legal, Compliance, and Risk functions in managing regulatory obligations.
• Support regulatory audits and supervisory reviews.
• Define enterprise data quality framework.
• Establish KPIs and SLAs for data quality across domains.
• Embed quality controls in MGA data ingestion processes.
• Drive metadata and lineage transparency.
• Enable increased trust in data products for gold layer consumption through embedded data governance.
• Embed governance within Data Mesh-oriented federated domain ownership.
• Train business data owners and stewards.
• Create governance dashboards and reporting for ELT.

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• FSA Medical and Dependent care
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• EAP
• Basic Life and AD&D (company paid)
• Basic Long-Term Disability (employer) paid-Taxable income
• Employee paid Long Term Disability(voluntary)
• Company Medical Leave, Parental leave- 8 weeks full pay after 6 months of service
• Voluntary benefits: short term disability, Critical illness, Hospital Indemnity, Accident
• Travel assistance programs
• Company paid 401(k) 6 % safe harbor match, fully vested after two years, pre- and post-tax contributions allowed
• Gym reimbursement
• Legal plan
• Pet Insurance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Generous PTO
• Flexible work arrangement
• Fully stacked pantry on-site
• Team outings
• ERG Groups

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed