Data Architect

What part will you play? If you're looking for a place where you can make a meaningful difference, you've found it. Because, at Markel, the work you do gives people the confidence to move forward and seize opportunities. Whether you're wild about horses, bananas for boats or driven by data, you'll find your fit amongst our global community of optimists and problem-solvers. We're always pushing each other to go further because we believe that when we realize our potential, we can help others reach theirs.

Join us and play your part in something special!

The Solutions Architect is a vocal futurists that can advocate their vision and be excited about creative problem-solving as part of a cross-functional team. The Solutions Architect will obsess over writing smart, simple clean code and will tirelessly strive for the best end-user experience, with the drive and desire to keep learning the latest development techniques.

Job Summary:

The Solutions Architect is a vocal futurists that can advocate their vision and be excited about creative problem-solving as part of a cross-functional team. The Solutions Architect will obsess over writing smart, simple clean code and will tirelessly strive for the best end-user experience, with the drive and desire to keep learning the latest development techniques.

Duties and accountabilities

• The solution architect is a senior member of the organization, providing critical thought leadership and a steady hand
• Provide architectural runway against business feature priorities for the upcoming PI, through well thought out solution patterns
• Act as a trusted specialist for Agile full-stack development teams working to deliver business features in the current PI, including technical troubleshooting
• Strategic direction setting by building and maintaining the domain target state, along with a roadmap to attain it, within the context of the broader organization
• Work closely with a team of peers to help elevate the department
• Perform technology evaluations in support of the development teams, with appropriate recommendations and reasoning
• Ability to review options in a problem space, including pros and cons of all considered options, and produce a summary assessment, including a recommendation

Skills, knowledge and experience

• A passion for all things data
• Full lifecycle Data Architecture experience
• Strong insurance domain expertise, with London and international markets a plus
• Ideally have experience in Azure, or secondarily a different cloud environment (e.g. AWS). An Azure Solutions Architect certification would also be useful
• Experience with both structured and non-structured data, and both relational and non-relational solutions
• Experience using vendor and open source options
• A solid grasp of the NFRs for the various implementations and options
• An understanding of API design, including RESTful Excellent interpersonal skills, including written and verbal communication skills, to allow for effective collaboration with colleagues and business partners
• Ability to both explain concepts at a high-level, but also be hands on when working at a low level, utilizing a strong attention to detail
• Know when to make independent decisions and when to circle back with appropriate questions
• Work within a new domain by identifying gaps in knowledge and actively seeking the answers

Must be authorized to work in the U.S., and not require sponsorship now or in the future.

Who we are:

Markel Group (NYSE - MKL) a fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory and investment operations around the world.

We're all about people | We win together | We strive for better

We enjoy the everyday | We think further

What's in it for you:

In keeping with the values of the Markel Style, we strive to support our employees in living their lives to the fullest at home and at work.

• We offer competitive benefit programs that help meet our diverse and changing environment as well as support our employees' needs at all stages of life.
• All full-time employees have the option to select from multiple health, dental and vision insurance plan options and optional life, disability, and AD&D insurance.
• We also offer a 401(k) with employer match contributions, an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, PTO, corporate holidays and floating holidays, parental leave.
• Markel offers hybrid working schedules of 3 days in the office and 2 days remote.

Are you ready to play your part?

Choose 'Apply Now' to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.

The base salary offered for the successful candidate will be based on compensable factors such as job-relevant education, job-relevant experience, training, licensure, demonstrated competencies, geographic location, and other factors.

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