Director, Data Architect

Primary Job Responsibilities

• Strategy and Execution: Lead the strategy and execution of complex and large Data and Analytics portfolio.
• Data Modernization: Develop and implement a strategic roadmap to modernize legacy data and analytics ecosystems using Cloud and AI. Solve for data complexity by enabling data domains and data products for all consumption architypes and stakeholders including reporting, data science, AI/ML and analytics.
• Data Modernization: Develop and implement a strategic roadmap to modernize legacy data and analytics ecosystems using Cloud and AI. Solve for data complexity by enabling data domains and data products for all consumption architypes and stakeholders including reporting, data science, AI/ML and analytics.
• Data Architecture and Solutions: Ensure data architecture and solutions align with enterprise-wide standards for Data, AI and Analytics.
• Effectively communicate strategy, execution progress, and outcomes to diverse stakeholders and promote data capabilities through thought leadership and presentations.
• AI Data Engineering leader responsible for Implementing AI data pipelines that integrate structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data to support AI and Agentic solutions.
• Real-Time Data Streaming: Design, build and maintain scalable real-time data pipelines for efficient ingestion, processing, and delivery.
• Drive best practices in AI data engineering by establishing standardized processes, promoting cutting-edge technologies, and ensuring data quality and compliance across the enterprise.
• Data and Analytics Management: Oversee the design, development, and maintenance of lakehouse architectures, data pipelines, data warehouses, data lakes and reporting systems.
• Leadership: Mentor and lead a high-performing team including Directors, Business data analysts, Data engineers and Release train engineers.
• Drive efficiency and Productivity: Identify and champion developer productivity improvements across the end-to-end data management lifecycle. This includes researching and implementing innovative solutions such as AI-driven auto-generation of data pipelines, advanced DevOps practices for data and automated data quality frameworks.
• Technology Evaluation & Adoption: Stay current with emerging trends in data engineering and AI/ML, design prototypes and conduct experiments, and recommend innovative tools and technologies to enhance data capabilities enabling business strategy.
• Data Governance, Stewardship and Quality: Support robust data management frameworks to ensure successful adoption of Enterprise Data Governance and Data Quality practices.
• Develop deep partnerships and alignment with the portfolio and agile value stream frameworks. Experience with Agile at Scale and iterative development through cross-functional teams.
• Partners with Technology, Data, AI Platform, EB Ops and Architecture teams to influence technology, data, platform and tooling strategy.

Qualifications

• Candidates must be authorized to work in the US without company sponsorship. The company will not support the STEM OPT I-983 Training Plan endorsement for this position.
• 12+ years in data engineering, data management and building large-scale data ecosystems.
• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science or a related field.
• 7+ years in leadership roles managing large and complex data and analytics portfolio with large size teams.
• Proven strategic and innovative thinker with a track record of enabling transformative data capabilities.
• Mastery level data engineering and architecture skills, including deep expertise in data architecture patterns, lakehouses , data integration, data domains, data products, conversational business intelligence, and cloud technology capabilities.
• Technical expertise in LLMs, AI platforms, prompt engineering, LLM optimization, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures and vector database technologies (Vertex AI, Postgres, OpenSearch, Pinecone etc.).
• Strong experience with GCP, Vertex AI or AWS required.
• Experience in multi cloud environment.
• Experience in Lang chain, AI agents, Vertex AI and Google Agent ecosystem.
• Strong experience with the design and development of complex data ecosystems leveraging next-generation cloud technology stack across AWS or GCP Cloud and Snowflake.
• Exceptional presentation and verbal/written communication skills; must be able to communicate effectively at all levels across the organization.
• Ability to lead successfully in a lean, agile, and fast-paced organization, leveraging Scaled Agile principles and ways of working.
• Excellent negotiation, influencing, and conflict resolution skills; adept at building strong cross-functional relationships.
• PREFERRED: Experience in the Employee Benefit insurance industry.

Compensation

The listed annualized base pay range is primarily based on analysis of similar positions in the external market. Actual base pay could vary and may be above or below the listed range based on factors including but not limited to performance, proficiency and demonstration of competencies required for the role. The base pay is just one component of The Hartford’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include short-term or annual bonuses, long-term incentives, and on-the-spot recognition. The annualized base pay range for this role is: $140,000 - $210,000 Equal Opportunity Employer/Sex/Race/Color/Veterans/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity or Expression/Religion/Age