Director, Data Architect

The Hartford

Director of Data Architecture leading strategic design and governance of Employee Benefits data ecosystem at The Hartford. Overseeing modern data architecture enabling analytics and AI-driven innovations.

Posted 7/8/2026full-timeHartford • Connecticut, Illinois, North Carolina, Ohio • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $140,000 - $210,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformPostgres

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the strategy and execution of complex and large Data and Analytics portfolio.
Develop and implement a strategic roadmap to modernize legacy data and analytics ecosystems using Cloud and AI.
Ensure data architecture and solutions align with enterprise-wide standards for Data, AI and Analytics.
AI Data Engineering leader responsible for Implementing AI data pipelines that integrate structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data to support AI and Agentic solutions.
Design, build and maintain scalable real-time data pipelines for efficient ingestion, processing, and delivery.
Oversee the design, development, and maintenance of lakehouse architectures, data pipelines, data warehouses, data lakes and reporting systems.
Mentor and lead a high-performing team including Directors, Business data analysts, Data engineers and Release train engineers.
Identify and champion developer productivity improvements across the end-to-end data management lifecycle.

Requirements

What you’ll need

12+ years in data engineering, data management and building large-scale data ecosystems.
Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science or a related field.
7+ years in leadership roles managing large and complex data and analytics portfolio with large size teams.
Proven strategic and innovative thinker with a track record of enabling transformative data capabilities.
Mastery level data engineering and architecture skills, including deep expertise in data architecture patterns, lakehouses , data integration, data domains, data products, conversational business intelligence, and cloud technology capabilities.
Technical expertise in LLMs, AI platforms, prompt engineering, LLM optimization, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures and vector database technologies (Vertex AI, Postgres, OpenSearch, Pinecone etc.).
Strong experience with GCP, Vertex AI or AWS required.
Experience in multi cloud environment.
Strong experience with the design and development of complex data ecosystems leveraging next-generation cloud technology stack across AWS or GCP Cloud and Snowflake.
Exceptional presentation and verbal/written communication skills; must be able to communicate effectively at all levels across the organization.
Preferred experience in the Employee Benefit insurance industry.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Short-term or annual bonuses
Long-term incentives
On-the-spot recognition

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Hard Skills & Tools

Data IntegrationLakehouse ArchitectureData WarehousingData LakesConversational Business IntelligenceLLM OptimizationPrompt EngineeringRetrieval-Augmented GenerationData ProductsData Domains

Soft Skills

Exceptional Communication SkillsStrategic ThinkingInnovative Problem SolvingMentoring