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This role will be measured by its contribution to business outcomes such as operational efficiency, adoption of self-service data products, and AI agent effectiveness.\nIn This Role You Will Execute On:\nDefine and drive the enterprise data architecture vision, ensuring alignment between business objectives, analytics needs, and platform capabilities (long term strategy and innovation roadmaps).\nResponsible for application architecture (platform, tools, technologies) and information architecture (data models, data flow, data structures and data access)\nTranslate business and analytical requirements into scalable, secure, and feasible data architecture designs that support both near‑term delivery and long‑term innovation.\nGuide requirements gathering, backlog shaping, and solution design to ensure initiatives align with established architectural standards and future‑state roadmaps.\nLead the design of analytical data models, including dimensional and star schema designs for curated, business‑ready data layers.\nDesign and oversee end‑to‑end data pipelines, including source‑to‑target mappings, transformation logic, and serving strategies.\nEstablish architectural patterns and standards for data ingestion, transformation, storage, governance, and analytics consumption.\nEstablish and enforce data governance frameworks, standards, and policies to ensure data quality, security, and compliance.\nEnsure the integrity, quality, and validation of data across the full lifecycle, from source systems through curated datasets and reporting layers.\nPartner closely with data engineering and analytics teams to provide architectural guidance throughout delivery while remaining accountable for solution quality. Mentor and guide the lead data engineer.\nOwn the Data Strategy & Lifecycle Management, treating EDW domains as data products with SLAs, ownership, and lifecycle\nContribute to AI, Machine Learning, and Analytics Enablement Roadmap.\nResponsible for overseeing, integrating, and optimizing AI agents in data pipelines and ensuring the right mix of human and AI involvement. Ensure responsible use of AI agents and automation in data integration, transformation, and delivery.\nUnderstand and own relationships with external support providers and vendors as needed.\nEvaluate and recommend platform capabilities and emerging technologies to continuously improve performance, scalability, and usability of the data ecosystem. Ensure solutions and system are scalable, re-usable, and cost optimized.\nPerform other duties and special projects as requested.\n\nIn This Role You'll Need:\nPrefer bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\nInsurance industry experience, including familiarity with data domains such as policy, claims, billing, underwriting, or risk.\nSix or more years of experience in data architecture, analytics architecture, or enterprise data platform design.\nDemonstrated experience designing and delivering data platforms built on Azure based technologies as well as with multi-cloud or hybrid environments.\nHands on experience with DevOps (CI/CD process), event streaming and processing, AI/ML toolset, Azure Databricks, Microsoft Data Factory, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, and Azure cloud services.\nStrong experience designing analytical data models, including dimensional and star schema approaches.\nAdvanced SQL skills and working proficiency with PySpark for data transformation and modeling.\nExperience designing and validating end-to-end data pipelines, including data quality and reconciliation processes.\nAbility to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.\nExperience managing a team and in establishing an Architecture Review Board, Design Reviews, and Data Standards and Conventions.\nMust be willing and able to travel for in-person meetings at least on a quarterly basis\nAbility and willingness to travel by car or airplane for meetings, conferences, or other business-related functions.\nMust be legally authorized to work in the United States\n\nWhy Hylant?\nA multi-year recipient of Best Places to Work in Insurance, Hylant is a full-service insurance brokerage with over 20 offices in eight states. And since the founding of our family-owned business over 85 years ago, we made a promise to strengthen and protect the businesses, employees and communities of our client family by embracing them as our own. We’re more than an insurance brokerage firm and you’re more than a client, employee or neighbor. You’re family. And that’s just the way we treat you.\nHylant is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, marital status, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, Veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know. 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Ensure solutions and system are scalable, re-usable, and cost optimized.\nPerform other duties and special projects as requested.\n\nIn This Role You'll Need:\nPrefer bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\nInsurance industry experience, including familiarity with data domains such as policy, claims, billing, underwriting, or risk.\nSix or more years of experience in data architecture, analytics architecture, or enterprise data platform design.\nDemonstrated experience designing and delivering data platforms built on Azure based technologies as well as with multi-cloud or hybrid environments.\nHands on experience with DevOps (CI/CD process), event streaming and processing, AI/ML toolset, Azure Databricks, Microsoft Data Factory, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, and Azure cloud services.\nStrong experience designing analytical data models, including dimensional and star schema approaches.\nAdvanced SQL skills and working proficiency with PySpark for data transformation and modeling.\nExperience designing and validating end-to-end data pipelines, including data quality and reconciliation processes.\nAbility to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.\nExperience managing a team and in establishing an Architecture Review Board, Design Reviews, and Data Standards and Conventions.\nMust be willing and able to travel for in-person meetings at least on a quarterly basis\nAbility and willingness to travel by car or airplane for meetings, conferences, or other business-related functions.\nMust be legally authorized to work in the United States\n\nWhy Hylant?\nA multi-year recipient of Best Places to Work in Insurance, Hylant is a full-service insurance brokerage with over 20 offices in eight states. 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