Solutions Architect

The Liberty Mutual US Technology Data and Analytics Engineering (DAE) team is seeking a passionate Data Governance Solutions Architect for its Data Strategy & Design (DS&D) team to support Analytics data ecosystems enabling business and technology capabilities through solutions in data management, Lakehouse, Business Intelligence, Data Science/Advanced Analytics via cloud technologies. This individual will work within the Data and Analytics Engineering (DAE) group within U.S Retail Markets (USRM) Technology reporting to the Director of Data Strategy & Design (DS&D) team.

As a Data Governance Solutions Architect you’ll enhance and enable a Data Governance strategy to manage the information life cycle effectively. Develop/Drive governance strategy working directly with senior management and teams to ensure alignment with the overall objectives. Identify data governance capability gaps and define technical solutions to build those capabilities, write standards and policies for Data Governance for guiding the development of data systems, technical and product standards based on business plans and long-term strategies, while working in an agile environment that has the creative energy of a start-up—and the full backing and comprehensive benefits of a Fortune 100 company.

Are you looking for an opportunity where you can play a key role helping to guide and foster the transformation of one of the largest industries in the world?

Do you believe that building trust through empathy and openness is essential to success in the evolving digital landscape?

Are you able to lead discussion with engineers, managers, executives, and product owners to build consensus?

If this describes you, then we would love to tell you more about the Data Governance Solutions Architect role with Liberty Mutual Insurance US Retail Market (USRM US).

About the role:

• Define scope and priorities for developing, deploying and/or improving data management standards, policies, and processes enhancing the quality and completeness of the organization’s data.
• Create and own the solution architecture for enterprise data governance initiatives; define standards, integration patterns and technical roadmaps for metadata management, data catalogue, lineage, data quality and data modelling; support design reviews and delivery across projects.
• Identify key risks for data management and ensure compliance with related policies, roles & responsibilities and standards.
• Work with the Data Council and Data Owners across business units to define and enable enforcement mechanisms for data governance policies and standards
• Maintain overall accountability for the Data Governance program, inclusive of communication, stakeholder involvement, metrics and reporting, working group activities, conveying business value recognized through governance-facilitated activities.
• Serve as SPOC for Data Governance related activities
• Maintain and promote key data governance deliverables/assets, including data policies, data standards and data management roles and decision frameworks
• Design and own future state concept of operations through the development of business process models and data flow diagrams
• Document, assess, influence and synthesize business requirements to develop, enable and advance data governance and stewardship capabilities
• Define Key Performance Indicators and dashboards to monitor the effectiveness and adoption of the data governance program
• Partner with business leadership to identify and prioritize problems, and opportunities for data governance, and translate them into program objectives and requirements.
• Ability to conceive and portray the big data picture, analyzes current state and conceives desired future state, and conceives projects needed to close the gap
• Accelerate delivery by forming a network of positive relationships with influencers within the enterprise and beyond.
• Time management and multitasking skills to effectively meet challenging deadlines
• Proficiency in data modelling, very good understanding of data management concepts such as 3NF, Dimensional and their specific applications
• Experience in Agile development methodologies
• Excellent client facing and team player skills

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor`s or Master’s degree in technical discipline;
• 5 or more years of experience working as a data governance lead in a global company in a complex, multi-platform distributed environment.
• Proven experience designing and implementing enterprise data governance programs, including governance model, policies, standards, and technical architecture.
• Knowledge of industry leading data quality and data protection management practices
• Knowledge of data governance practices, business and technology issues related to management of enterprise information assests and approaches related to data protection
• Knowledge of data related US and international regulatory requirements and emerging trends and issues
• Strong project leadership and management skills to lead organizational change to effectively meet strategic and tactical goals
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to be able to present to a target audience
• Must be detail orientated/articulate with strong time management and organizational skills
• Proven management/supervisory experience
• Expertise in a wide variety of database technologies, from RDBMS like Snowflake, Oracle or DB2 to NoSQL systems such as MongoDB, Cassandra, or Elasticsearch, and can explain their varied use cases.

What's in it for you:

We value your hard work, integrity and dedication to positive change. In return for your service, it’s our privilege to offer you benefits and rewards that support your life and well-being. To learn more about our benefit offerings please visit: https://www.libertymutualgroup.com/about-lm/careers/benefits

Liberty Mutual is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace an environment that is free from all discrimination in the workplace, in its business, or by its vendors. Liberty Mutual values diversity and the differences and similarities of our employees. We foster a diverse and inclusive work environment that leads to better ideas, stronger teams and more innovative products and services for our customers.