Data Platform Design Lead

Introduction

At Gallagher Re, we bring clarity to complexity by helping clients around the world make confident, data-driven decisions in a rapidly evolving risk landscape. Here, you’ll be part of a team that leverages world-class analytics and deep reinsurance expertise to deliver strategic advisory services and transactional excellence. Together, we transform advanced insights and market intelligence into strategies that protect businesses, drive performance, and shape the future of reinsurance. We’re a community of decision makers, future shapers, and trusted experts working side by side to deliver meaningful impact through innovative thinking and practical solutions. At Gallagher Re, your curiosity is welcomed, your growth is championed, and your work truly matters. This is a place where you'll have the freedom to explore new ideas, take ownership of your career, and collaborate with people who are as driven and inquisitive as you are.
Overview

At Gallagher Re, we are seeking an experienced Data Platform and Design Lead to establish and evolve the core fundamentals of our Data Platform. This platform will support operational, transactional, and analytics data, enabling seamless ingestion, storage, and consumption of data for Gallagher Re’s products and business platforms. The role will focus on continuously maturing the platform to support report integrations, as well as advanced capabilities in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and analytics.

As a key member of the data team, you will focus on:

• Strategically designing the data platform, including the evolution of data domains, data lifecycles, and enabling data capabilities.
• Building fantastic working relationships with corporate teams and managing and aligning divisional needs with the broader enterprise data platform.

Additional responsibilities include:

• Ensuring the quality, security, and governance of all data within the platform, with an emphasis on collaboration with data stewards and robust data governance practices.
• Enabling data consumption and value creation by managing demand and prioritisation through a unified roadmap, driving data literacy, and fostering adoption across the organisation.

This role requires a combination of commercial insight, expertise in data technologies, exceptional stakeholder engagement skills, and the ability to drive both transformational and business-as-usual initiatives within a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

A core aspect of this role is close collaboration with the enterprise to ensure alignment with enterprise-wide standards, patterns, and reference architectures, including OneSource.

How you'll make an impact

Data Platform Design and Development

• Domains: Create logical groupings of data aligned with business functions to ensure clarity, ownership, and scalability.
• Data Contracts: Manage formal agreements between data producers and consumers regarding data quality, availability, and usage.
• Target Data Lifecycles: Define and implement data lifecycles across Gallagher Re processes in line with supporting technical architecture.
• Analytics Sandboxes: Enable secure, flexible environments for data experimentation and innovation.
• AI & ML Opportunities: Facilitate the adoption of AI and machine learning solutions.
• Client Preferences: Implement data structures and automated processes to capture, manage, and utilise client preferences.

Governance and Handover

Establish the following foundational elements before transitioning responsibilities to the Data Platform Governance Lead as the platform matures:

• Master Data Management & Data Flows: Define and control how master data is created, maintained, and used.
• Reference Data Management: Define and control how reference data is created, maintained, and shared.
• Metadata & Data Lineage: Define and control how metadata and data lineage are created, maintained, shared, and used.

Key Skills & Competencies

• Contribute to the broader data strategy and vision for Gallagher Re.
• Demonstrate a fantastic technical understanding of the software delivery lifecycle and agile methodologies within a large organisation.
• Partner with stakeholders across Gallagher Re to understand data needs, influence decision-making, and translate requirements into technical designs for the data platform.
• Collaborate closely with data engineering and architecture teams to deliver tangible outcomes.
• Exhibit exceptional stakeholder management, supported by excellent communication and facilitation skills.
• Perform data modelling and schema design in collaboration with data architects, data modellers, and subject matter experts

About You

Previous experience in a data-focused role such as Data Business Partner or Manager, Product Manager, Product Owner, Data Analyst, or Technical Business Analyst.

Excellent understanding of modern data platform technologies, including:

Data lakes and data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory).

ETL pipelines and enterprise data modelling.

SQL and data profiling.

Structured and unstructured datasets.

Schema design and methods (e.g., YAML, XML).

Data visualisation tools (e.g., Power BI or equivalent).

Data quality, compliance, and standards (e.g., PII, GDPR, CCPA).

Data management and data governance processes.

Experience managing product backlogs and delivering data capabilities in agile environments.

Fantastic data literacy with the ability to interpret, challenge, and translate business and technical requirements.Excellent communication and facilitation skills, with the ability