Data Architect (AI)

We are looking for an experienced Data and AI Architect to join our passionate team and define the architecture underpinning our digital and analytical ambitions.
Responsibilities:
Enterprise Architecture: Support and design our enterprise data strategy across data lake, data warehouse, and delta lakehouse structures.
Cloud and AI Engineering: Evolve our Azure cloud-native data platform to enable ingestion, curation, and analytical/generative AI use cases.
Agentic and Traditional AI: Partner with data science and domain teams to architect agentic AI systems and automated decision flows.
Governance and Regulatory Integrity: Ensure end-to-end architectures are explainable, secure, and compliant with Lloyd's and FCA regulatory expectations.
Technical Leadership: Act as a trusted champion alongside the Head of AI Enablement, mentoring data engineers and data scientists in modern architectural disciplines.
Requirements:
Cloud Expertise: Extensive experience architecting data and AI solutions in Azure (Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Databricks/Spark, and SQL Server).
Data Modelling: Deep expertise in complex data modelling, Delta Lakehouses, master data management, APIs, and event-driven architectures.
AI/ML Tooling: Experience with MLOps frameworks (MLflow and Azure ML) and LLMOps (LangChain, Vector DBs, and RAG).
Agentic Systems: Familiarity with agentic AI orchestration (e. g., AutoGen, CrewAI, LangGraph).
Insurance Domain Knowledge: Experience in the London Market, UK Commercial, or Reinsurance (familiarity with Lloyd's CDR, DDM, or Blueprint Two is a strong plus).

Experience
7-11 yrs