Data Architect
Tenth Revolution Group · London, England ·
Job Description Data Architect (Insurance) 3-6 Month Contract | £400 per day | Outside IR35 | Hybrid London A growing technology consultancy is looking to engage an experienced Data Architect to support the delivery of a high-profile data transformation programme for a leading insurance client operating within the Lloyd's of London market.
This engagement will focus on modernising core data platforms, improving data governance capabilities, and shaping the future-state architecture across key insurance data domains. The successful consultant will work closely with both client stakeholders and delivery teams to design scalable, secure, and business-aligned data solutions.
What You'll Be Doing Define and drive the target-state data architecture across enterprise SQL and PostgreSQL environments. Design and implement logical, conceptual, and physical data models. Assess existing data landscapes and create modernisation and migration roadmaps.
Support large-scale database migration, rationalisation, and optimisation initiatives. Work closely with business and technical stakeholders to translate requirements into robust data solutions. Establish best practices across data governance, metadata, lineage, data quality, and security.
Provide architectural oversight for integration, reporting, and analytics workloads. Review and enhance database performance, scalability, resilience, and availability. Produce architecture documentation and contribute to design authority and governance forums.
What We're Looking For Proven experience delivering Data Architecture solutions within the Insurance sector. Previous Lloyd's of London market experience is essential. Strong hands-on expertise with PostgreSQL and advanced SQL development.
Deep understanding of insurance data domains including policy administration, claims, underwriting, broker, customer, billing, risk, and reinsurance data. Experience designing enterprise-grade data models and data architectures.
Strong knowledge of data governance, data quality, metadata management, and lineage. Experience supporting database transformation and migration programmes. Ability to operate effectively within complex, highly regulated environments.
Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills. Nice to Have Experience with ACORD or other insurance industry data standards. Exposure to cloud-based PostgreSQL platforms across AWS or Azure. Experience with SQL Server to PostgreSQL migration projects.
Knowledge of modern analytics platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, Synapse, Fabric, or Redshift. Familiarity with ETL/ELT tooling including dbt, Airflow, Informatica, Talend, SSIS, or similar technologies. Contract Details Position: Data Architect Engagement: 3-6 Month Contract Day Rate: £400 per day IR35: Outside IR35 Location: London Hybrid Start: ASAP