Azure Data Architect - Insurance

Job Title: Data Architect - Azure Databricks - Insurance Industry Location: London - 2 days per week in the office Salary/Rate: Up to £680 per day inside IR35 Start Date: 12/01/2026 Job Type: Contract - 3 monthsCompany IntroductionWe are seeking a Data Architect to help drive an insurance client''s data transformation program. This role combines business leadership with hands-on technical execution, ensuring delivery of scalable insurance data platforms.Job Responsibilities/ObjectivesLead data architecture and platform design on Azure Databricks + Unity Catalog, ensuring scalability, governance, and performance.Develop and optimize data pipelines (dbt, Delta Live Tables, Spark) for actuarial, claims, reference, and other data. Design and implement data models for claims (paid, incurred, case reserves, exposures), enabling actuarial reserving, financial reconciliation, and regulatory reporting, with support for incremental vs. cumulative structures.Guide and help engineering team and client on best practices: CI/CD, version control, testing, DevOps pipelines.Mentor and coordinate data engineers, analysts, and offshore delivery teams.Ensure data quality, lineage, and governance across the platform.Partner with actuaries and business SMEs to validate models, KPIs, and reporting outputs.Drive orchestration andamp; automation (Prefect, Azure DevOps) for reliable production workflows.Act as technical escalation point and ensure successful delivery of transformation roadmap. ..... full job details .....