Lead the design, integration, and transformation of finance data ecosystems. Hands-on technical role with significant influence across ERP replacement, data fabric modernization, and financial reporting transformation.
Key Highlights
Technical Skills Required
Benefits & Perks
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 solid understanding of financial systems and accounting data.
You will serve as both:
- 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
1. Finance Data Architecture (Primary Focus)
- Support and eventually backfill the Finance Data Architect for:
- Semantic models for finance reporting
- Future Enterprise Data Warehouse
- ERP replacement program
- 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
2. Integration Architecture & Data Fabric
- 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
3. Solution Architecture Support
- 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
4. Hands-On Engineering & Delivery
This role is not purely conceptual - you will perform real technical work, including:
- 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
Core Data Architecture Expertise
- 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
Financial & ERP Domain Knowledge
- 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
Integration & Data Fabric Skills
- 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
Hands-On Technical Skills
- Experience building or maintaining data pipelines (cloud or on-prem)
- Ability to create data flow diagrams and migration plans
- Familiarity with BI tools and reporting structures
- Strong documentation and architectural communication skills
Collaboration & Business Partnership
- Comfortable working with system owners, business SMEs, and finance leadership
- Able to translate business requirements into technical design
- Strong cross-functional team engagement