Head of Data — Insurance & Investments

Job Summary

The Head of Data leads the organization's enterprise data function, ensuring that data is governed, trusted, accessible, secure, and effectively used for business decision-making.

Within Insurance & Investments, the role supports data requirements across underwriting, claims, customer analytics, investment/portfolio management, finance, risk, compliance, regulatory reporting, and corporate operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the organization's enterprise data strategy and roadmap.
• Establish and maintain data governance, policies, standards, ownership, and controls.
• Improve data quality, accuracy, consistency, completeness, and availability.
• Lead enterprise data management, architecture, integration, and platform initiatives.
• Oversee data warehouses, data lakes, data platforms, master data, metadata, and data pipelines.
• Lead Business Intelligence (BI), reporting, analytics, and data science capabilities.
• Support AI and machine-learning initiatives through high-quality and accessible data.
• Develop data solutions for underwriting, claims, pricing, fraud, customer analytics, and risk.
• Support investment teams through portfolio, performance, market, client, and investment data.
• Establish data lineage, classification, access controls, privacy, and data-security practices.
• Partner with IT/technology teams on cloud data platforms, architecture, APIs, and systems integration.
• Ensure reliable data for financial, management, regulatory, and compliance reporting.
• Lead data modernization and transformation programs.
• Establish data-quality KPIs and monitor data governance and platform performance.
• Manage data vendors, technology partners, budgets, and strategic initiatives.
• Build, lead, and develop data engineering, analytics, governance, BI, and data-science teams.
• Promote a data-driven culture across the organization.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• 12–18+ years of experience in data, analytics, information management, technology, or related fields.
• 5+ years in Head of Data, Head of Data & Analytics, Data Director, Director of Data, CDO, or equivalent leadership roles.
• Experience in insurance, investment management, asset management, banking, wealth management, or financial services preferred.

Strong expertise in:

• Enterprise data strategy
• Data governance
• Data architecture
• Data management
• Data quality
• Data integration
• Data platforms
• Business intelligence
• Advanced analytics
• AI / machine learning
• Data privacy & security
• Master data management
• Regulatory data
• Experience managing enterprise data transformation programs and multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong understanding of financial-services data and regulatory requirements.
• Strong stakeholder-management skills with CIO, CTO, CDO, CFO, Risk, Investment, and business leadership.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, Statistics, Engineering, or related discipline.