Senior Data Modeller - Insurance (AI & Data)
Base Salary: £110,000 + bonus + benefits Location: Hybrid (London)Sector: Consulting - Insurance, Data & AI Architecture Employment Type: Permanent
Shape the data foundations powering next-generation insuranceThe insurance sector is rapidly evolving, and consultancies are at the forefront-helping clients modernise legacy ecosystems, embrace decentralised data models, and build domain-driven data products that unlock analytics, automation and AI.
As a Senior Manager in our consulting practice, you will lead the design of strategic, business-focused data models for major insurers. Your work will define the structures, standards and architectures that enable transformation across underwriting, pricing, claims, finance and risk.
This is a role for a technical leader who understands both the insurance domain and the broader consulting landscape-someone who brings clarity to complexity, influences senior decision-makers, and drives delivery through diverse, multi-disciplinary teams.
What you'll be doing- Drive data design for large-scale insurance programmes, from conceptual modelling through logical/physical layers, tied directly to business priorities.
- Develop a unified language for data-dictionaries, vocabularies, taxonomies and ontologies that allow teams to interpret data consistently.
- Shape data and analytics architectures collaboratively with solution and enterprise architects.
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, helping them navigate design choices and achieve measurable business outcomes.
- Build strategic roadmaps for Data & AI capabilities, supporting predictive analytics, BI, AI/ML and GenAI.
- Lead workshops to capture requirements, validate design decisions and align business/technology stakeholders.
- Manage teams across consulting disciplines, fostering an inclusive and supportive culture while developing emerging talent.
- Contribute to consulting growth: support pre-sales, RFI/RFP responses, proposals and thought leadership.
- Establish governance and design authorities, ensuring the right controls, patterns and principles are followed.
- Oversee delivery of one or more workstreams, ensuring commercial success and high-quality client outcomes.
- Consulting experience, including client-facing delivery, stakeholder engagement and pre-sales support.
- Expertise in the Insurance sector, ideally in one or more: Underwriting, Pricing, Claims, Risk, Finance, or Asset/Investment Management.
- Strong stakeholder management, including working closely with executive-level or C-suite audiences.
- Hands-on data modelling capability across conceptual, logical and physical layers.
- Deep understanding of data management-data quality, MDM, reference data, metadata, governance and analytics/BI.
- Experience defining architecture patterns and applying structured methodologies.
- Proven ability to document and standardise data semantics, including taxonomies and vocabularies.
- Experience collaborating with Business and IT, translating objectives into actionable designs and roadmaps.
- Workshop leadership, including requirements gathering and model review sessions.
- Experience partnering with enterprise/solution/data architects across business units or regions.
- Consulting resilience-thriving in fast-paced project environments.
- Go-to-market experience, including RFP responses and proposal development.
- Commitment to an inclusive team environment where people are recognised and supported.
- TOGAF or equivalent architecture certification.
- Certifications/exposure to Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Snowflake, or similar enterprise data platforms.
- Experience with Data Mesh or domain-oriented data product operating models.
- Familiarity with governance platforms: Collibra, Informatica, etc.
- Experience working with global/offshore teams.
- Understanding of GDPR, IFRS 17, Solvency II or other regulatory frameworks.
- Experience setting up and running design authorities.
- Exposure to both waterfall and agile environments.
- £90,000 - £110,000 base salary + bonus + benefits.
- Hybrid working in London, with client-site engagement as needed.
- A career in a consultancy that values impact, integrity, inclusion, collaboration and leadership.
- Opportunities to shape solutions across some of the most complex and impactful data transformations in the UK insurance market.