Data Operations Lead

Ascot Group • New York, NY

19h • Hybrid

About The Position

This is an opportunity to join Ascot Group - one of the world’s preeminent specialty risk underwriting organizations. Designed as a modern-era company operating through an ecosystem of interconnected global operating platforms, we’re bound by a common mission and purpose: One Ascot. Our greatest strength is a talented team who flourishes in a collaborative, inclusive, and entrepreneurial culture, steeped in underwriting excellence, integrity, and a passion to find a better way, The Ascot Way. The Ascot Way guides our people and our organization. Our underwriting platforms collaborate to find creative ways to deploy our capital in a true cross-product and cross-platform approach. These platforms work as one, deploying our capital creatively through our unique Fusion Model: Client Centric, Risk Centric, Technology Centric. Built to be resilient, Ascot maximizes client financial security while delivering bespoke products and world class service — both pre- and post-claims. Ascot exists to solve our clients’ brightest tomorrow, through agility, collaboration, resilience, and discipline. Position Overview: Reporting to the AVP, Data Transformation & Integration Manager, the Data Operations Lead is a senior individual contributor within Ascot’s Data Strategy & Delivery organization, responsible for bridging business needs and technical solutions across data initiatives. This role focuses on gathering and translating business and technical requirements, leading data-related projects, and facilitating solution design across reporting, analytics, and data platforms. The ideal candidate is highly versatile — equally comfortable engaging with business stakeholders, working with technical teams, and guiding solutions from concept through delivery. This role will be in the office with a hybrid work schedule.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, Computer Science, Data Analytics, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 10+ years of experience working in data, analytics, or reporting roles within complex enterprise environments.
• Experience working with financial, operational, or regulatory data required; insurance or financial services industry experience preferred.
• Strong SQL skills for data analysis, validation, and investigation.
• Solid understanding of data warehousing, reporting, and analytics concepts.
• Ability to read and interpret data models and understand upstream/downstream data impacts.
• Demonstrated experience gathering business and technical requirements and leading data-related projects or initiatives.
• Strong ability to work across functions and influence without direct authority.
• Experience balancing multiple initiatives in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
• Strong requirements elicitation and documentation skills.
• Proven ability to lead projects and drive delivery without people management responsibility.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate between business and technical audiences.
• Analytical, structured problem-solving approach with strong attention to detail.
• Highly adaptable and comfortable operating across ambiguity.

Nice To Haves

• Experience partnering with BI tools (e.g., Power BI) and data engineering platforms (e.g., SQL Server, Synapse, ADF) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business stakeholders to understand objectives, challenges, and data needs across operations, finance, underwriting, and compliance.
• Lead requirements-gathering efforts, translating business needs into clear, actionable functional and technical requirements.
• Lead data-focused initiatives and workstreams from intake through delivery, coordinating across data engineering, BI, and operational teams.
• Drive alignment on scope, priorities, and delivery approach while balancing short-term needs with long-term data strategy.
• Facilitate solution design discussions, working with technical teams to evaluate options and recommend practical, scalable approaches.
• Ensure proposed solutions align with Ascot data standards, architecture, and best practices.
• Act as a thought partner to both business and technical teams, helping shape solutions that are accurate, sustainable, and fit for purpose.
• Partner with business and compliance stakeholders to ensure Ascot can meet legal and regulatory reporting requirements by translating requirements into clear data and reporting solutions.
• Lead and support the design, development, and ongoing management of SQL-based reports, including bordereau and data call reporting, leveraging data from multiple enterprise data sources.
• Support the Operations department by enabling data quality analysis, investigating data issues, and helping identify root causes and remediation paths in partnership with technical teams.
• Embody The Ascot Way in their daily interaction with colleagues, fostering colleague engagement and development, collaboration, inclusivity, and individual accountability.

Benefits

• Health and Welfare Benefits: Medical (including prescription coverage), Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account, Commuter Account, Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, Life Insurance, AD&D, Work/Life Resources (including Employee Assistance Program), and more
• Leave Benefits: Paid holidays, annual Paid Time Off (includes paid state /local paid leave where required), Short-term Disability, Long-term Disability, Other leaves (e.g., Bereavement, FMLA, Adoption, Maternity, Military, Primary & Non-Primary Caregiver)
• Retirement Benefits: Contributory Savings Plan (401k)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level