Forward Deployed Data Solution Engineer
Accelerant6 months ago
United Kingdom (city not specified)Senior
Responsibilities
- Embed with delivery teams and review technical decisions, designs, and code continuously.
- Assess business-built AI, low-code, and scripted capabilities and create clear paths to enterprise production.
- Design and validate integrations across ERP, CRM, HR, reinsurance, data platforms, and applications.
- Apply API-first, REST, event-driven, and MCP-style integration patterns where appropriate.
- Drive data product quality, lineage, ownership, source documentation, and canonical data model governance.
- Create architectural patterns, record technical decisions in architectural decision records, and make operational knowledge durable.
- Communicate technical constraints and recommendations effectively to engineers and business stakeholders.
Requirements
- Strong practical knowledge of cloud platforms, particularly Azure and AWS.
- Experience with enterprise application integration, operation, and maintenance at scale.
- Knowledge of API design, REST, event-driven architectures, and MCP-style tool connectivity.
- Understanding of data products, lineage, ownership, data-at-source descriptions, logical data models, and canonical data models.
- Ability to read and substantively review code written by others.
- Practical experience with at least one AI development framework and understanding of governance for AI-generated or AI-assisted capabilities entering production.
- Experience with enterprise SaaS platforms, especially in finance, operations, or insurance domains; experience with D365, Salesforce, or similar platforms is relevant.
- Clear communication with both technical and business stakeholders, delivery accountability, comfort with ambiguity, and willingness to make independent technical decisions.
About Accelerant
Accelerant builds a data-driven risk exchange for specialty insurance, connecting MGAs and underwriters with aligned risk capital and software to run their programs. Its platform ingests and analyzes underwriting and claims data to support pricing, capacity allocation, and operations, and it partners closely with specialty underwriting teams. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Atlanta, the company focuses on improving efficiency and profitability for program-based insurance businesses.