Data Platform Design Lead

At Gallagher Re, we bring clarity to complexity by helping clients around the world make confident, data-driven decisions in a rapidly evolving risk landscape. Here, you’ll be part of a team that leverages world-class analytics and deep reinsurance expertise to deliver strategic advisory services and transactional excellence.

We’re a community of decision makers, future shapers, and trusted experts working side by side to deliver meaningful impact through innovative thinking and practical solutions. At Gallagher Re, your curiosity is welcomed, your growth is championed, and your work truly matters. This is a place where you'll have the freedom to explore new ideas, take ownership of your career, and collaborate with people who are as driven and inquisitive as you are.

Overview: We are seeking an experienced Data Platform and Design Lead to establish and evolve the core fundamentals of our Data Platform. This platform will support operational, transactional, and analytics data, enabling seamless ingestion, storage, and consumption of data for Gallagher Re’s products and business platforms. The role will focus on continuously maturing the platform to support report integrations, as well as advanced capabilities in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and analytics.

As a key member of the data team, you will focus on:

• Strategically designing the data platform, including the evolution of data domains, data lifecycles, and enabling data capabilities.
• Building fantastic working relationships with corporate teams and managing and aligning divisional needs with the broader enterprise data platform.

Additional responsibilities include:

• Ensuring the quality, security, and governance of all data within the platform, with an emphasis on collaboration with data stewards and robust data governance practices.
• Enabling data consumption and value creation by managing demand and prioritisation through a unified roadmap, driving data literacy, and fostering adoption across the organisation.

This role requires a combination of commercial insight, expertise in data technologies, exceptional stakeholder engagement skills, and the ability to drive both transformational and business-as-usual initiatives within a fast-paced, dynamic environment. A core aspect of this role is close collaboration with the enterprise to ensure alignment with enterprise-wide standards, patterns, and reference architectures, including OneSource.

How you’ll make an impact:

• Data Platform Design and Development Domains: Create logical groupings of data aligned with business functions to ensure clarity, ownership, and scalability.
• Data Contracts: Manage formal agreements between data producers and consumers regarding data quality, availability, and usage.
• Target Data Lifecycles: Define and implement data lifecycles across Gallagher Re processes in line with supporting technical architecture.
• Analytics Sandboxes: Enable secure, flexible environments for data experimentation and innovation.
• AI & ML Opportunities: Facilitate the adoption of AI and machine learning solutions.
• Client Preferences: Implement data structures and automated processes to capture, manage, and utilise client preferences.

Governance and Handover: Establish foundational elements before transitioning responsibilities to the Data Platform Governance Lead as the platform matures:

• Master Data Management & Data Flows: Define and control how master data is created, maintained, and used.
• Reference Data Management: Define and control how reference data is created, maintained, and shared.
• Metadata & Data Lineage: Define and control how metadata and data lineage are created, maintained, shared, and used.

Key Skills & Competencies:

• Contribute to the broader data strategy and vision for Gallagher Re.
• Demonstrate a fantastic technical understanding of the software delivery lifecycle and agile methodologies within a large organisation.
• Partner with stakeholders across Gallagher Re to understand data needs, influence decision-making, and translate requirements into technical designs for the data platform.
• Collaborate closely with data engineering and architecture teams to deliver tangible outcomes.
• Exhibit exceptional stakeholder management, supported by excellent communication and facilitation skills.
• Perform data modelling and schema design in collaboration with data architects, data modellers, and subject matter experts.

About You:

• Previous experience in a data-focused role such as Data Business Partner or Manager, Product Manager, Product Owner, Data Analyst, or Technical Business Analyst.
• Excellent understanding of modern data platform technologies, including data lakes and data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory).
• ETL pipelines and enterprise data modelling.
• SQL and data profiling.
• Structured and unstructured datasets.
• Schema design and methods (e.g., YAML, XML).
• Data visualisation tools (e.g., Power BI or equivalent).
• Data quality, compliance, and standards (e.g., PII, GDPR, CCPA).
• Data management and data governance processes.
• Experience managing product backlogs and delivering data capabilities in agile environments.
• Fantastic data literacy with the ability to interpret, challenge, and translate business and technical requirements.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to influence and build strong relationships.
• Passion for emerging data technologies, continuous improvement, and challenging existing approaches.
• Highly organised, with the ability to balance multiple priorities and deliver at pace.

Compensation and benefits: On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits. Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

• Minimum of 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, and the option to buy extra days.
• Defined contribution pension scheme, which Gallagher will also contribute to.
• Life insurance, which will pay 4x your basic annual salary, which you can top‑up to 10x.
• Income protection, we’ll cover up to 50% of your annual income, with options to top up.
• Health cash plan or private medical insurance.

Other benefits include:

• Three fully paid volunteering days per year.
• Employee Stock Purchase plan, offering company shares at a discount.
• Share incentive plan, HMRC approved, tax effective, stock purchase plan.
• Critical illness cover.
• Discounted gym membership, with over 3,000 gyms nationally.
• Season ticket loan.
• Access to a discounted voucher portal to save money on your weekly shop or next big purchase.
• Emergency back‑up family care.

We value inclusion and diversity: Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organisation. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work. Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities.

Gallagher is Disability Confident Committed. We have pledged to make sure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, in addition to supporting our existing employees with any long‑term health conditions or disabilities. We understand that applicants may have disabilities; if you do, you may find some parts of the recruitment process more challenging than others. Don’t worry, we’re here to help, however, we can only do this if you let us know.

Should you require reasonable adjustments to your application, please get in touch with T A G lobalSupport@ajg.com. If you’d prefer to speak on the phone, please request a call back, leaving details, so we get in touch.

Our employing entity, Arthur J. Gallagher Services (UK) Limited, is proud to be accredited as a Living Wage employer with the Living Wage Foundation. We are committed to diversity and opportunity for all and are opposed to any form of less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender or gender identity, marital status, civil partnership status, parental status, race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion/ belief, age and those with caring responsibilities.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non‑conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer‑employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.