Senior Director, Data Architecture

Location: New York

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* Starr Insurance Companies is a leading insurance and investment organization, providing commercial property and casualty insurance, including travel and accident coverage, to almost every imaginable business and industry in virtually every part of the world.
Cornelius Vander Starr established his first insurance company in Shanghai, China in 1919. Today, we are one of the world’s fastest growing insurance organizations, capable of writing in 128 countries on 6 continents.
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* Job Description:

Senior Director, Data Architecture
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* Location:

** New York, NY
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* Reports to:

** Head of Data Engineering & Chief Data Officer
** Department:
** Starr Technology Group
** Overview:
** The Senior Director, Data Architecture is a pivotal leadership role responsible for championing, building, and scaling a world-class Data Architecture practice in support of Starr’s global enterprise data vision. Reporting to the Chief Data Officer, the candidate will define and deliver modern, resilient, and secure data architectures that underpin all insurance systems, capabilities, and platforms. Leveraging deep domain experience in insurance (P&C and Specialty lines), data management, modeling, and analytics, the Senior Director will translate business and technical requirements into scalable data solutions that enable the organization’s innovation, regulatory compliance, and growth objectives.

Central to this role is the development and stewardship of data architectural best practices, reference architectures, and standardized frameworks that drive consistency, quality, and governance across all data assets—spanning domains from Customer, Policy, Claims, and Financials to the augmentation of external data. The Senior Director will work collaboratively with engineering, product, analytics, and delivery teams to translate requirements into solutions, providing architectural oversight and hands-on technical delivery for strategic initiatives, and maintaining a current/future state roadmap for all data capabilities.

This leader will drive adoption of modern data technologies, advanced data modeling, cloud architectures, and data governance principles, while building the discipline and maturity of Starr’s Data Architecture organization. This position is critical for supporting the scalable growth of business intelligence, analytics, and cross-enterprise data operations across the insurance portfolio.
** Responsibilities:
**** Data Architecture Vision, Strategy & Governance
*** Define and execute the data architecture vision and strategic roadmap in close alignment with the CDO and enterprise data strategy.
* Architect scalable, resilient, and secure solutions for enterprise-wide data integration, warehousing, analytics, operational systems, and augmentation with external data sources.
* Develop and champion standardized, insurance-centric data modeling frameworks, data architecture best practices, and reference architectures to ensure quality, consistency, and performance.
** Architectural Oversight & Solution Delivery
*** Drive architectural oversight for design, build, and operate phases of critical enterprise data initiatives—including new insurance products, data platforms, modernization, digital transformation, and regulatory projects.
* Translate functional and technical requirements into robust data architectures; guide engineering, analytics, product, and delivery teams throughout the data solution lifecycle.
* Perform hands-on technical delivery and problem solving for complex, strategic initiatives, ensuring successful execution against business, compliance, and technical requirements.
* Formalize current- and future-state architectural roadmaps that support unified, global, and consistent views of Customer, Policy, Claims, Financials, and other key insurance data domains.
** Insurance Data Domain Leadership
*** Develop and maintain standardized insurance data models, schemas, and pipelines; ensure applicability across the business…