Solutions/Data Architect (Finance or Insurance Focused)

🌍 Remote, USA 🚀 Full-time 🕐 Posted Recently

Job Description

Solution/Data Architect Hybrid (Hands-On Data Focused)
100% Remote Working
US Candidates Only - ET Working Hours
Contract-To-Hire
Initial 6-month contract - Hourly Rates up to $110
Perm Salary, subject to a successful transition from contract to a permanent role ($200k)
Finance and/or Insurance Domain Experience is essential

We are seeking a highly skilled Data Architect / Solution Architect hybrid to lead the design, integration, and transformation of our finance data ecosystem. This role is ideal for someone who combines deep hands‑on data expertise, strong solution architecture capability, and a solid understanding of financial systems and accounting data.

a backup and eventual successor to our Finance Data Architect
a complement to our Solution Architecture lead, contributing cross‑domain architectural depth

This is a hands‑on technical role with significant influence across ERP replacement, data fabric modernization, and financial reporting transformation.

What You’ll Do

Support and eventually backfill the Finance Data Architect for:
Semantic models for finance reporting
Future Enterprise Data Warehouse
Design and refine backend finance data models, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and scalability
Understand and model financial structures including general ledger, chart of accounts, insurance & reinsurance data, and accounting flows
Ensure finance data is usable for reporting, forecasting, and regulatory purposes
Lead integration design across SAP, Workday, data fabric, and downstream applications
Define and optimize end-to-end data pipelines and transformation flows
Understand how financial data aggregates through the data pipeline - and how this differs across policy, reinsurance, actuarial, and finance processes
Contribute to re‑architecting legacy applications as part of broader modernization efforts
Recommend integration patterns (APIs, events, fabric links, batch pipelines), explaining technical trade‑offs
Produce high-quality architecture deliverables including solution diagrams, data flow maps, and integration blueprints
Partner with engineering, cloud, and data teams to drive design decisions
Support cloud migration initiatives through data flow mapping and integration guidance
Communicate architecture options clearly, presenting pros/cons to technical and business audiences
Participate in business architecture discussions where process and data intersect

Building and validating data models (logical & physical)
Developing or supporting data pipelines and data migration workflows
Creating BI‑ready structures and supporting reporting teams
Drafting migration path documentation, field mappings, and sequencing plans
Troubleshooting integration and data quality issues alongside engineering teams

What You Bring

Strong understanding of semantic modelling, medallion architecture, and modern data warehousing
Experience with ERP‑to‑warehouse integration and finance system data flows
Ability to design sustainable, scalable finance data ecosystems
Hands‑on experience with SAP (finance modules strongly preferred)
Knowledge of Workday integrations
Experience with general ledger migration projects
Understanding of insurance and reinsurance accounting principles

Direct experience with data fabric concepts, data virtualization, and enterprise data integration
Comfortable designing end‑to‑end integration architecture
Ability to explain how data moves, transforms, aggregates, and is governed