- Data Cataloging: Utilize IDMC to effectively catalog data assets, ensuring robust metadata management and enhancing data discoverability across the organization.
- Data Classification: Support with necessary data classification (manual or automated) around sensitive, critical, confidential data
- Master Data Management: Develop, validate, and maintain detailed mappings and schemas in Excel to manage master data critical for analysis and reporting.
- Data Quality Assurance: Regularly audit and refine data quality, collaborating with IT, Data Owners, Data Stewards, and other stakeholders to rectify discrepancies and maintain high data integrity.
- Policy Implementation and Compliance: Adhere to and enforce strict data management practices that comply with industry regulations such as GDPR, HIPAA, or specific insurance regulatory standards.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Liaise between data users, technical teams, and business leaders to align data accessibility with the strategic needs of the actuarial department.
- Educational Workshops and Support: Conduct training sessions and provide ongoing support for Alation and Excel-related data governance practices.
- Project Leadership: Manage and execute data governance projects, ensuring alignment with broader business objectives and timely completion.
Role & Responsibilities Overview:
- Data Cataloging: Utilize IDMC to effectively catalog data assets, ensuring robust metadata management and enhancing data discoverability across the organization.
- Data Classification: Support with necessary data classification (manual or automated) around sensitive, critical, confidential data
- Master Data Management: Develop, validate, and maintain detailed mappings and schemas in Excel to manage master data critical for analysis and reporting.
- Data Quality Assurance: Regularly audit and refine data quality, collaborating with IT, Data Owners, Data Stewards, and other stakeholders to rectify discrepancies and maintain high data integrity.
- Policy Implementation and Compliance: Adhere to and enforce strict data management practices that comply with industry regulations such as GDPR, HIPAA, or specific insurance regulatory standards.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Liaise between data users, technical teams, and business leaders to align data accessibility with the strategic needs of the actuarial department.
- Educational Workshops and Support: Conduct training sessions and provide ongoing support for Alation and Excel-related data governance practices.
- Project Leadership: Manage and execute data governance projects, ensuring alignment with broader business objectives and timely completion.
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Management, Computer Science, Actuarial Science, or a related field.
- 4+ years of experience in data governance or a similar role within the insurance industry.
- Expertise in using IDMC for data glossary, data lineage, data cataloging and advanced proficiency in Excel.
- Familiarity with insurance data standards and the regulatory environment is a plus
- Excellent analytical, organizational, and project management skills.
- Effective communication and interpersonal abilities, with experience working in consultancy and client-facing roles
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Information Management, Computer Science, Actuarial Science, or related field.
- 4+ years of experience in data governance or similar role within the insurance industry.
- Expertise using IDMC for data glossary, lineage, and cataloging.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel and developing/maintaining mappings and schemas.
- Experience with data classification and data quality assurance practices.
- Experience enforcing data management policies and compliance with regulations (GDPR, HIPAA, insurance standards).
- Excellent analytical, organizational, and project management skills.
- Effective communication and interpersonal abilities; experience in consultancy and client-facing roles.
- Familiarity with insurance data standards and regulatory environment.
What We Do
Choosing a digital partner is about more than capabilities — it’s about collaboration and character. Unrealistic overhauls and off-the-shelf products ignore what matters most — your unique needs, culture, goals, and your legacy data and technology environments. At EXL, our collaboration is built on ongoing listening and learning to adapt our methodologies. We’re your business evolution partner—tailoring solutions that make the most of data to make better business decisions and drive more intelligence into your increasingly digital operations. Whether your goals are scaling the use of AI and digital, redesign operating models, or driving better and faster decisions, we’re here to partner with you to help you gain—and maintain—competitive advantage with efficient, sustainable models at scale. Our expertise in transformation, data science, and change management helps make your business more efficient and effective, improve customer relationships and enhance revenue growth. Instead of focusing on multi-year, resource- and time-intensive platform designs or migrations, we look deeper at your entire value chain to integrate strategies with impact. We use our specialization in analytics, digital interventions, and operations management—alongside deep industry expertise — to deliver solutions that help you outperform the competition. At EXL, it’s all about outcomes—your outcomes—and delivering success on your terms. Share your goals with us and together, we’ll optimize how you leverage data to drive your business forward. For more information, visit www.exlservice.com.
