Data Architect

Who We Are

Through a partnership-based approach, Coterie helps insurance professionals unlock untapped revenue in the small commercial space. With an innovative quoting platform that delivers accurate pricing and bindable quotes in less than one minute, Coterie makes small business insurance effortless.

We are on a mission to build and foster a world-class team to bring speed, simplicity, and service to commercial insurance. We value integrity, humility, passion, and intelligence. If you want to push yourself and reshape a $200B+ market, we’re excited to talk to you!

What will the Data Architect do?

The Data Architect will serve as a strategic and technical bridge between Coterie’s Data and Analytics team (DnA) and Engineering teams, ensuring alignment in how data is modeled, governed, and consumed across the organization. This role will drive the definition and enforcement of scalable data architecture standards, oversee OLTP domain modeling, and establish stable, business-aligned data contracts to support both internal analytics and external data exchange. As a cross-functional collaborator and thought leader, the Data Architect plays a critical role in enabling secure, reliable, and performant data systems that meet the needs of DnA, Engineering, Growth, and Insurance teams.

• Serve as the architectural bridge between DnA and Engineering departments, ensuring alignment between the needs and standards for DnA, Engineering, Growth and Insurance.
• Collaborate closely with data engineers, data analysts, data scientists and software engineers to ensure consistent implementation of architectural decisions.
• Establish and enforce data architecture standards, best practices and design patterns across the organization.
• Ensure data models meet requirements for governance, security, privacy, reliability and performance.
• Support data governance initiatives, including data quality, lineage, metadata management and regulatory compliance.
• Own OLTP domain modeling and schema design, ensuring source systems represent business entities, workflows and constraints correctly before data lands downstream.
• Create and maintain a domain map and canonical model, clarifying boundaries between services/domains and preventing duplicated or conflicting representations of the same concepts.
• Create and maintain stable, business-aligned data contracts that power reliable ingestion into a lakehouse.
  
  

What We Are Looking For

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related quantitative field.
• 7+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, software development or related roles.
• Demonstrated experience working in regulated industries such as insurance (preferred), banking or financial services.
• Strong understanding of data modeling and data warehousing concepts.

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• Proficiency in multiple scripting languages (e.g., Python, SQL).
• Ability to collaborate effectively across DnA and Engineering teams, balancing analytical requirements with engineering constraints.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain architectural decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience designing and supporting cloud-based data platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure or GCP).
• Extensive experience with:
• Event modeling (batch and streaming)
• Databricks
• Relational and document-based data structure
  

What Will Make You Stand Out

• Familiarity with data governance frameworks and regulatory requirements (e.g., SOC 2, SOX).
• Experience supporting analytics, business intelligence and data science use cases.
• Prior leadership or mentorship experience within technical teams
  
  

Our Interview Process

Our hiring process generally consists of 4 phases. The goal is to provide an opportunity for us to learn more about our candidates while allowing them to get to know us as well!

• Phase 1: Qualified candidates will first meet with a member of our People Operations team for a phone interview. This discussion is a high-level conversation to understand more about your background and interests and for us to share more about Coterie and the position.
• Phase 2: Selected candidates will be invited to meet with our Hiring Manager for a 2nd interview via Teams video. This interview is designed to be more detail oriented and allows you to learn more about the role and expected to be 30 minutes in length.

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• Phase 3: Top candidates will be invited to participate in an experiential exercise. Following the hiring manager’s review of your project work, select candidates will then advance to interview to dive deeper into their project and discuss their approach with the team. This series is expected to be 1-2 hours in length.
• Phase 4: Final candidates will be invited to meet with a member of our senior leadership team. This interview is expected to last 30 minutes in length.
  
  

What's In It For You

Coterie has excellent benefits for all full-time employees. We offer the following:

• 100% remote
• Health insurance through Aetna (we pay 100% of premiums)
• Dental and vision insurance through Guardian (we pay 100% of premiums)
• Basic life insurance (we pay 100% of premiums)
• Access to flexible spending account (FSA) or health savings account (HSA) (for those using HSA eligible plans)
• 401K plan (up 4% match with immediate vest). Must be 21 years of age or older to participate
• Flexible PTO policy offering up to 3 weeks of time off to support onboarding and integration during the first twelve months of employment. After the first year of employment and effective as of the anniversary date, eligibility transitions to up to 4 to 5 weeks of time off annually to recharge and sustain long-term success.
• 12 company-paid holidays each year
• Continuing education annual stipend
• Annual salary estimated between $135,000-$165,000 based on national data. Candidates who meet all the minimum requirements and possess additional relevant experience, as outlined in the job description, may be considered for a salary above the midpoint of the above range. Salary is based on internal equity; internal salary ranges; market data/ranges; applicant’s skills; prior relevant experience; degrees or certifications, etc.
  
  

Work Authorization

At this time, Coterie Insurance is unable to consider candidates who require current or future visa sponsorship. Applicants must have authorization to work in the United States without the need for sponsorship now or in the future. Falsification of an application, including work authorization status, is immediate grounds for dismissal from consideration.