Commercial insurance underwriter scaling automation and data governance across UK and international offices
Arch Insurance UK is a 200–500-person underwriting and claims operation within Arch Capital Group, operating across regional offices and an e-trading portal. The tech stack reveals a maturing data and automation push: Databricks, Snowflake, and Collibra sit alongside legacy Office/SQL tooling, while active projects include a large data transformation, Collibra roadmap development, and workflow automation. Hiring is skewed toward data (10), finance (14), and operations (13)—matching stated pain points in data governance, process inefficiencies, and regulatory compliance—rather than toward pure engineering or sales.
Notable leadership hires: Head of Digital Algorithms
Arch Insurance UK provides commercial insurance underwriting and claims services to brokers across multiple lines: accident & health, casualty, combined, financial & professional, marine, motor, PI, and property. The business operates through staffed regional offices in the UK and Ireland, plus an Arch Online e-trading portal for broker convenience. A wholly owned subsidiary of Arch Capital Group Ltd. (A+ rated), the company is pursuing geographic expansion into new jurisdictions and simultaneously undertaking a significant data transformation and lean operational redesign, underpinned by governance tooling (Collibra) and modern data infrastructure (Databricks, Snowflake, Azure).
Core tools include Jira, SQL, Excel/VBA, and Office. Data and analytics: Databricks, Snowflake, Power BI, and Collibra. Automation: Selenium, Activiti, Flowable, and Groovy. Testing: JUnit and TestNG. Cloud: Azure.
London, England. The company operates regional UK offices and subsidiary operations in Ireland and Australia, with hiring ongoing in all three countries.
Active initiatives include a large data transformation program, Collibra data governance roadmap, process automation across high-volume workflows, ceded reinsurance implementation, lean transformation, and an international general insurance digital trading platform.
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