Lead Enterprise Data Architect

Lloyd’s is the world’s leading insurance and reinsurance marketplace. We share the collective intelligence and risk sharing expertise of the market’s brightest minds, working together for a braver world. Our role is to inspire courage, so tomorrow’s progress isn’t limited by today’s risks. Our shared values: we are brave; we are stronger together; we do the right thing; guide what we do and how we act. If you share our values and our passion to build a future that’s more sustainable, resilient and inclusive, you’ll find a home at Lloyd’s – build a braver future with us.

Principal Accountabilities

• Strategic Direction & Influence: Define, evolve, and influence adoption of Lloyd’s enterprise data capability architecture, ensuring alignment with enterprise-wide architectural direction. Shape and steer the future state of the data ecosystem by developing data architectural guardrails, concepts, and strategic recommendations. Bring forward innovative thinking and market insight to improve data capabilities, working through influence rather than ownership. Work with the Data & AI Director and team to align and deliver and evolve Lloyd’s Data & AI strategy.
• Enterprise Governance & Standards: Lead the definition, socialisation, and governance of data principles, policies, and standards across the corporation. Ensure data-related designs brought through governance align to enterprise patterns, regulatory requirements, and strategic direction — through advisory oversight, not direct solutioning. Partner with architecture governance forums (EDA, ARB) to represent data-architecture concerns and drive consistent enterprise alignment.
• Cross-Functional Partnership & Advisory: Act as a strategic advisor to business domains, delivery teams, and platform leads to shape data-related decisions early, ensuring alignment to the target data architecture. Guide and challenge vendors, delivery partners, and solution architects (including Accenture) to apply enterprise data principles and patterns. Support Data Strategy delivery through influence, enabling its translation into scalable technical and architectural direction.
• Risk, Compliance & Non-Functional Alignment: Influence the incorporation of regulatory, privacy, and resilience considerations into all data-related solution designs. Identify architectural risks across the data estate and work with owners, not as the owner, to ensure risk mitigation paths are adopted.

Skills Knowledge And Experience

• Significant experience shaping enterprise data architectures in complex environments.
• Experience influencing delivery teams, vendors, and platform owners without direct ownership.
• Experience defining or governing data standards, principles, and reference architectures.
• Deep expertise in data architecture, governance, modelling, quality management, MDM, metadata, lineage, and data security.
• Awareness of cloud data platforms and modern data ecosystem architectures (Azure, AWS, GCP etc.).
• Understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks and how data architecture interacts with application, technology, and security domains.
• Knowledge of regulatory and compliance requirements impacting data.
• Technical Skills: Databricks, Medallion Architecture, Master Data Management, AI (Machine Learning & Gen AI) Fundamentals, Azure Fundamentals, Data Modeling Concepts, Jira/Confluence.
• Influential communicator able to shape, guide, and challenge stakeholders across business, technology, and 3rd-party partners.
• Proven ability to govern and socialise standards, policies, and architectural principles.
• Able to lead by influence, building consensus around architectural direction rather than owning outcomes.
• Skilled at early engagement and shaping of initiatives without becoming embedded in delivery.

Diversity and inclusion are a focus for us – Lloyd’s aim is to build a diverse, inclusive environment that reflects the global markets we work in. One where everyone is treated with dignity and respect to achieve their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making workplace adjustments, we offer regular health and wellbeing programmes, diversity and inclusion training, employee networks, mentoring and volunteering opportunities as well as investment into your professional development. You can read more about diversity and inclusion on our website.

We understand that our work/life balance is important to us all and that a hybrid of working from the office and home can offer a great level of flexibility. Flexible working forms part of a total reward approach which offers a host of other benefits over and above the standard offering (generous pension, healthcare, wellbeing etc). These include financial support for training, education & development, a benefit allowance (to spend on our flexible benefits such as gym membership, dental insurance, extra holiday or to partake in our cycle to work scheme), employee recognition scheme and various employee discount schemes. By choosing Lloyd's, you will be part of a team that brings together the best minds in the industry, and together with our underwriters and brokers, we create innovative, responsive solutions allowing us to share risk and solve complex problems.