Data Steward: Personal Lines Product, Pricing and Underwriting data domain
About The Position
This is a leadership role within the Data Office, recognized as an essential service provider crucial for the success of growth and profitability initiatives in U.S. personal and business lines organizations. The U.S. Operations Data Office is seeking an energetic, self-motivated, and technically proficient individual with a proven background in data analysis, modeling, and data management practices for the position of Data Steward (Director I Level) representing the Personal Lines Product, Pricing and Underwriting data domain. This role is primarily responsible for leading data transformation efforts to simplify and accelerate go-to-market strategies, powered by a modern, future-ready unified insurance platform. The role will coordinate priorities and assess broad impacts across multiple stakeholder teams within the Data Office and the broader U.S. business organization as analytics and reporting environments are modernized. Candidates living within 50 miles of Boston, MA; Portsmouth, NH; Seattle, WA; Columbus, OH; or Plano, TX will follow a hybrid schedule, coming into the office two days per week. Otherwise, this role is remote with occasional travel.
Requirements
- Strong written and oral communication skills required
- Familiarity with Agile practices
- Familiarity with process management a plus
- 7-10+ years coding experience in data management, data warehousing, or unstructured data environments
- 6+ years as a managing data steward or equivalent role preferred
- 1-3 years experience with Hadoop stack and NoSQL tools a plus
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in business or technical discipline or equivalent experience. Master’s degree preferred
- Strategic mindset, naturally inquisitive and can operate under broad managerial guidance
- Excellent communicator and collaborator
- Familiarity with Agile practices
- 5+ years technical expertise with aptitude to understand Kafka streaming data ingestion, data vault (or other sophisticated data modeling concepts), high volume data warehousing
- 7+ years expertise in Insurance manipulating and querying data and comprehension of complex data models
- Strong aptitude working with the quote/policy data lifecycle and financial premium and loss data preferred
- Experience with transformation to Guidewire PolicyCenter or another similar cloud-based technology
Responsibilities
- Refine, implement, and maintain a comprehensive data roadmap for current and future initiatives to support the development of a unified insurance platform and value touchpoints that enable multiple areas of the business, ensuring alignment with overall U.S Operations strategy
- Translate this high-level plan into actionable epics in partnership with product owners as near-term plans are elaborated
- Provide technical and business-centric guidance for the modernization of Product, Pricing, and UW systems onto our new tech stack by influencing and collaborating with teams along the data value chain
- Classify and protect data according to established regulatory/compliance guidelines through process development and adherence
- Work with technical teams to define and govern data policy and methodologies
- Engage and coordinate with stakeholders to assess needs that promote efficient, durable and cost-effective solutions and advise Agile development squads to realize those solutions.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits
- Workplace flexibility
- Professional development opportunities
- Opportunities provided through our Employee Resource Groups
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
Associate degree
