VP, Software Engineering (Data Domain) - Hybrid (Jersey City or Raleigh)

Vice President for Data Domain

With a company culture rooted in collaboration, expertise, and innovation, we aim to promote progress and inspire our clients, employees, investors, and communities to achieve their greatest potential. Our work is the catalyst that helps others achieve their goals. In short, we enable possibility.

The Vice President for Data Domain leads the enterprise data strategy and execution across multiple critical functions including data engineering, data governance, business intelligence / reporting, actuarial data support, and domain-specific teams such as Ceded Reinsurance. This role is responsible for ensuring end-to-end ownership of data platforms, scalable architecture, efficient operations, and business-aligned delivery across multiple agile teams and vendor partners. The VP will oversee cross-functional collaboration, drive business value, ensure compliance, and lead modernization efforts across the data landscape, including Snowflake Data Lake, Azure, and reporting ecosystems (Power BI, SSRS, etc.)

This is a hybrid, twice-a-week, in office role in our Jersey City or Raleigh offices.

Responsibilities

• Set the vision and strategy for data domain initiatives across Ceded Reinsurance, BI / Reporting, and Actuarial support.
• Collaborate with senior business stakeholders to align data initiatives with enterprise objectives.
• Oversee cross-functional agile teams to ensure delivery, quality, and business value from data products and platforms.
• Drive the roadmap, architecture, and lifecycle management of enterprise data platforms including cloud data lakes (Snowflake), data warehouses, and Azure-based pipelines.
• Ensure robust development, operationalization, and support of ETL / ELT frameworks using tools such as IICS, DBT, Databricks, StreamSets, and ADF.
• Lead the strategy and development for Power BI, SSRS, and dashboarding initiatives.
• Work with business teams to develop actionable insights, self-service reporting capabilities, and financial / statutory reporting support.
• Provide strategic and technical leadership to teams supporting actuarial modeling, reserving data flows, and ceded reinsurance data provisioning.
• Ensure timely, accurate, and audit-ready data for actuarial processes and reinsurance reporting.
• Oversee multiple delivery teams across U.S. and offshore locations, ensuring sprint-level velocity and increment-level roadmap execution.
• Ensure delivery aligns with SOX, SOC-2, and NYDFS data compliance requirements.
• Lead vendor engagement, contract negotiations, budget planning, and external relationship management.
• Champion modern DevOps, CI / CD, GIT, and orchestration practices in data engineering and reporting pipelines.
• Drive innovation around AI / ML, data observability, and self-service models to enhance business outcomes.
• Ensure thorough documentation, test coverage, and audit trails across all data processes and platforms.

Experience

Education