Solutions/Data Architect (Finance or Insurance Focused)

Solutions/Data Architect (Finance or Insurance Focused)

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• Solution/Data Architect Hybrid (Hands-On Data Focused)
• 100% Remote Working
• US Candidates Only - ET Working Hours
• Contract-To-Hire
• Initial 6-month contract - Hourly Rates up to $110
• Perm Salary, subject to a successful transition from contract to a permanent role ($200k)
• Finance and/or Insurance Domain Experience is essential

We are seeking a highly skilled Data Architect / Solution Architect hybrid to lead the design, integration, and transformation of our finance data ecosystem. This role is ideal for someone who combines deep hands‑on data expertise , strong solution architecture capability , and a solid understanding of financial systems and accounting data .

You will serve as both:

• a backup and eventual successor to our Finance Data Architect
• a complement to our Solution Architecture lead, contributing cross‑domain architectural depth

This is a hands‑on technical role with significant influence across ERP replacement, data fabric modernization, and financial reporting transformation.

What You’ll Do

Finance Data Architecture (Primary Focus)

• Support and eventually backfill the Finance Data Architect for:
• Semantic models for finance reporting
• Future Enterprise Data Warehouse
• Design and refine backend finance data models, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and scalability
• Understand and model financial structures including general ledger, chart of accounts, insurance & reinsurance data, and accounting flows
• Ensure finance data is usable for reporting, forecasting, and regulatory purposes
• Lead integration design across SAP, Workday, data fabric, and downstream applications
• Define and optimize end-to-end data pipelines and transformation flows
• Understand how financial data aggregates through the data pipeline - and how this differs across policy, reinsurance, actuarial, and finance processes
• Contribute to re‑architecting legacy applications as part of broader modernization efforts
• Recommend integration patterns (APIs, events, fabric links, batch pipelines), explaining technical trade‑offs
• Produce high-quality architecture deliverables including solution diagrams, data flow maps, and integration blueprints
• Partner with engineering, cloud, and data teams to drive design decisions
• Support cloud migration initiatives through data flow mapping and integration guidance
• Communicate architecture options clearly, presenting pros/cons to technical and business audiences
• Participate in business architecture discussions where process and data intersect

This role is not purely conceptual – you will perform real technical work, including:

• Building and validating data models (logical & physical)
• Developing or supporting data pipelines and data migration workflows
• Creating BI‑ready structures and supporting reporting teams
• Drafting migration path documentation, field mappings, and sequencing plans
• Troubleshooting integration and data quality issues alongside engineering teams

What You Bring

Core Data Architecture Expertise

• Strong understanding of semantic modelling, medallion architecture, and modern data warehousing
• Experience with ERP‑to‑warehouse integration and finance system data flows
• Ability to design sustainable, scalable finance data ecosystems
• Hands‑on experience with SAP (finance modules strongly preferred)
• Knowledge of Workday integrations
• Experience with general ledger migration projects
• Understanding of insurance and reinsurance accounting principles

Integration & Data Fabric Skills

• Direct experience with data fabric concepts , data virtualization, and enterprise data integration
• Comfortable designing end‑to‑end integration architecture
• Ability to explain how data moves, transforms, aggregates, and is governed

Hands‑On Technical Skills

• Experience building or maintaining data pipelines (cloud or on‑prem)
• Ability to create data flow diagrams and migration plans
• Familiarity with BI tools and reporting structures
• Strong documentation and architectural communication skills

Collaboration & Business Partnership

• Comfortable working with system owners, business SMEs, and finance leadership
• Able to translate business requirements into technical design

Job Details

• Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level
• Employment type: Other
• Job function: Information Technology
• Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting