Solution Data Architect

• A great opportunity with a top 5 General Insurer in Australia
• Do you have solid Data solution architecture experience?
• Open to Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane candidates - Remote / Hybrid

Hollard Insurance is part of the Hollard Group of Companies and a top 5 General Insurer in Australia and New Zealand. We underwrite a broad range of general insurance products, including motor, home, contents, business, and pet. Hollard’s unrelenting focus on diversity and inclusion, collaborative partnerships, and delivering great customer outcomes is at the heart of its business model, driven by its purpose of “Using our expertise, integrity and humanity to go further, together" 

You’ll join a multi-disciplinary Tech Strategy, Enterprise & Solution Architecture team. The team supports all of Hollard’s technologies, our business architecture and our technology transformation strategy. Architecture as a practice has grown quickly in size since its inception in 2020. This is due to significant consolidation and acquisitions, along with an ambitious transformation agenda. 

This role is a critical role in delivering our modern data platform strategy and policy. Working closely with the Enterprise Data Architect, the Architecture team and the wider tech and business teams, you will apply a breadth of technology and business knowledge to help design new data solutions, in addition to seeking opportunities to bring forward the delivery of value to our customers by incrementally modernising existing solutions. 

You will lead the successful delivery of new data initiatives together with developing architecture reference architectures, patterns, standards etc. Your primary scope will cover the domains of data & information architecture. You may be asked to support other domains as required and appropriate.

• You will contribute to the data domain architecture practice establishment and its maturity. 
• Scope, define and maintain data focused solutions and data integration and ETL strategies, in alignment to Enterprise Architecture and Roadmaps.
• Identify and resolve cross-capability, cross-release issues that impact the business and enterprise architecture integrity. 
• Create and maintain overall delivery roadmap for target business and/or technology domain area, covering legacy technology change control/decommissioning and strategic technology uplift/remediation/onboarding. 
• Define and promote solutions that have long term supportability, with clarity on legacy or existing implementation impacts and transition.

• Minimum 7 years of experience as a Data Architect, ideally with financial services exposure. 
• Must have strong foundation in IT with core competencies in data and information management and solution design, and SaaS based data technology implementations. 
• Good successful track record on architecture work for strategic initiatives meeting quantifiable business outcomes and resulting in tangible impact for the organisation. 
•  Experience in leveraging cloud services for data processing, transformation, and analytics is required. 
• Microsoft Azure experience is required, and snowflake is highly regarded.
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert is mandatory.

At Hollard you will be part of a supportive, valued and committed team. You will enjoy a challenging and rewarding work environment, career progression opportunities and great staff benefits and corporate discounts. We also offer many benefits to support your professional development and wellbeing including:

• professional and technical development opportunities
• flexible start and finish times, work from home, and other flexible work from home options to suit your lifestyle
• paid parental and partner leave
• additional leave options, including 5 well-being days each year
• generous employee insurance discounts
• novated lease options
• corporate employee discounts from various retailers
• Wellbeing benefits e.g., vaccinations, health insurance discounts, mental wellness training professional memberships, EAP

Hollard is unapologetically committed to creating a workplace that values your diversity with a true sense of inclusion. We actively seek to hire for your different lived experiences (including as relate to disability, ethnicity, faith, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, gender diversity, sexual orientation, age, neurodiversity). These enhance cognitive diversity and psychological safety in our workplace for everyone. 

Hollard proudly promotes flexible work including remote work, non-traditional work patterns, and work-family balance.  

Even if you don’t meet all our selection criteria, we encourage you to apply.

Please note that a full background check will be completed on the successful applicant.

Please Note: We will not require any support from Recruitment Agencies and kindly request that no unsolicited resumes are sent to Hollard employees in relation to this role or others. Only direct applications will be considered.

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