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  • SCOR
  • Zurich, ZH
  • Full-Time
  • 72 days ago
SCOR VERIFIED EMPLOYER

Head of Data Platform.

Data Engineering & Architecture Full-Time

Head of Data Platform: our view in 3 lines...

  • The Role:This role leads SCOR’s enterprise data platform ecosystem, with a focus on Databricks, Palantir Foundry, and AI-enabled data platforms.
  • The Person:The person will own the design, operation, governance, standards, and continuous evolution of SCOR’s data platform and drive AI-powered workflows and automation.
  • Requirements:The role calls for deep platform expertise, engineering leadership, Databricks, Palantir Foundry, AIP, agentic AI, architecture, governance, compliance, and FinOps.

About the role

At SCOR, we combine the Art and Science of risk to help build more resilient societies. Data and AI are at the heart of this ambition. 

Within our Tech, Data & AI organization, we are seeking a Head of Data Platforms to lead the design, operation, and continuous evolution of SCOR’s enterprise data platform ecosystem, centered around Databricks and Palantir Foundry. 

This role is for a senior leader who combines deep platform expertise, strong engineering leadership, and forward-looking innovation, especially in the agentic AI space. You will own the platforms that enable data, analytics, and AI at scale, ensuring they are trusted, governed, cost-efficient, and continuously scaling business growth and AI adoption. 

You will play a critical role in shaping how SCOR leverages modern data platforms such as Databricks and Palantir Foundry (incl. AIP) to deliver high-impact business outcomes across underwriting, pricing, reserving, and corporate functions.

You will define and own the platform strategy, governance model, operating model, and engineering standards, ensuring that the platform enables scalable data products, AI use cases, and self-service analytics. 

Beyond platform stability and delivery, you will drive innovation in the agentic AI space, enabling new ways of working through AI-powered workflows, automation, and decision intelligence. This role requires a strong balance between strategy, architecture, governance, and hands-on leadership, with a particular focus on: 

  • Architecture, governance, and compliance (data, AI, access, regulatory)
  • Cost management (FinOps for data and AI platforms)
  • Platform standards, adoption and best practices 
  • Enabling business-driven use cases at scale

As a leading global reinsurer, SCOR offers its clients a diversified and innovative range of reinsurance and insurance solutions and services to control and manage risk. Applying “The Art & Science of Risk,” SCOR uses its industry-recognized expertise and cutting-edge financial solutions to serve its clients and contribute to the welfare and resilience of society in around 160 countries worldwide.

Working at SCOR means engaging with some of the best minds in the industry – actuaries, data scientists, underwriters, risk modelers, engineers, and many others – as we work together to find solutions to pressing challenges facing societies.

As an international company, our common culture is defined by “The SCOR Way.” Serving both to build momentum that drives the Group forward and as a compass to guide our actions and choices, The SCOR Way is anchored by five core values, reflecting the input of employees at all levels of the Group. We care about clients, people, and societies. We perform with integrity. We act with courage. We encourage open minds. And we thrive through collaboration.

SCOR supports inclusion and the diversity of talents, and all positions are open to people with disabilities.

Published August 17, 2026
Location Zurich, Switzerland
Job Type Full-Time