Data Architect

The Role

As a Data Architect, you will play a key role in supporting Willis Towers Watson’s client-facing products. These products include high concurrency highly transactional systems as well as big data systems with complex reporting and business intelligence requirements. The Data Architect will evaluate and improve existing database structures and play a crucial role in creating evolutionary database models for current and future Towers Watson products.

The Data Architect will be required to analyze an array of product offerings and business requirements within the organization. You will work with the product development teams (e.g. engineering, product managers, and analysts) to evaluate and identify solutions that meet the needs of the business, utilizing industry-standard best practices and creative design techniques to overcome complex business and technical challenges (e.g. maximum performance with complex data sets). Some additional responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Work with the Senior Data Architect to define database architectures and communicate those designs to business and engineering partners


• Analyze existing data design and suggest improvements that promote performance, stability, and interoperability.


• Work with product management and business subject matter experts to translate business requirements into good database design.


• Provide database architecture leadership and mentor projects consisting of WTW employees and outside contractors


• Maintain the governance model on the database architecture through training, design reviews, code reviews, and progress reviews.


• Participate in the development of Database Architecture and Roadmaps in support of business strategies


• Establish and maintain database architecture standards and best practices


• Participate in the evaluation of emerging technology and tools