Data Governance Lead

Job Description

This is an opportunity to join Ascot Group - one of the world’s preeminent specialty risk underwriting organizations.

This is an opportunity to join Ascot Group - one of the world’s preeminent specialty risk underwriting organizations. Designed as a modern-era company operating through an ecosystem of interconnected global operating platforms, we’re bound by a common mission and purpose. Our greatest strength is a talented team who flourish in a collaborative, inclusive, and entrepreneurial culture, steeped in underwriting excellence, integrity, and a passion to find a better way, The Ascot Way.

The Ascot Way guides our people and our organization. Our underwriting platforms collaborate to find creative ways to deploy our capital in a true cross-product and cross-platform approach. These platforms work as one, deploying our capital creatively through our Client Centric, Risk Centric and Technology Centric strategies Built to be resilient, Ascot offers clients leading financial security while delivering bespoke products and world class service — both pre- and post-claims.

Ascot exists to solve for our clients’ brightest tomorrow, through agility, collaboration, resilience, and discipline. Ascot is embedding artificial intelligence and automation across the organization to enhance decision-making, efficiency, and quality of outcomes. In this role, you will be expected to work confidently with AI-enabled tools, apply sound judgment when interpreting insights, and adapt as technology continues to evolve. We value curiosity, critical thinking, and a willingness to embrace change as part of how we work.

Ascot’s Data Strategy and Insights business unit is seeking a Data Governance Lead to help mature and operationalize data governance across the organization. This role will serve as a key connector between Data Governance, IT, and business stakeholders, partnering with Data Owners and Data Stewards to define critical data, improve data quality, strengthen accountability, and support trusted, well-governed data across Ascot.

The successful candidate will bring specialty insurance knowledge, hands‑on data and analytics capability, and a practical understanding of data governance and data management principles. This role can be based in our New York, NY, Iselin, NJ, Stamford, CT, West Hartford, CT, or Chicago, IL offices, and will follow a hybrid work schedule. This is a high‑impact role for someone who can bring structure, clarity, and accountability to how data is defined, governed, monitored, and used across the business.

• Serve as the day‑to‑day liaison between Data Governance, IT, and business stakeholder groups, ensuring priorities, dependencies, and decisions are clearly communicated.
• Partner with Data Owners and Data Stewards to define, certify, maintain, and continuously improve Critical Data Elements.
• Translate business objectives into practical governance outcomes, including data definitions, ownership models, quality controls, and supporting documentation.
• Create, maintain, and triage daily data quality monitoring processes, and lead data quality working sessions that bring business Data Stewards and technical Data Custodians together to drive resolution, ownership, and accountability.
• Promote communication, collaboration, and transparency across technical and business partners to support consistent governance practices and timely issue resolution.
• Support the governance, implementation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of reference data management procedures.
• Support additional data governance, data quality, and business transformation initiatives as needed.
• Demonstrate The Ascot Way by collaborating across teams, embracing inclusivity, demonstrating accountability, and helping build an engaged, high‑performing culture.

• Extensive P&C and specialty insurance knowledge and experience required, with a strong preference for experience performing or supporting multiple business functions such as Underwriting, Actuarial, Claims, Finance, Operations, Risk Management, or related areas.
• Minimum of 8 years of…