Forward Deployed Data Solution Engineer

About AccelerantAccelerant is a data-driven risk exchange connecting underwriters of specialty insurance risk with risk capital providers. Accelerant was founded in 2018 by a group of longtime insurance industry executives and technology experts who shared a vision of rebuilding the way risk is exchanged – so that it works better, for everyone. The Accelerant risk exchange does business across more than 20 different countries and 250 specialty products, and we are proud that our insurers have been awarded an AM Best A- (Excellent) rating. For more information, please visit www.accelerant.ai.About the RoleThis is not a traditional enterprise architecture role.Accelerant is operating in a period of rapid change. Significant internal systems across finance, operations, and data are being implemented. Business users across the organisation are building AI-enabled capabilities at a pace that exceeds the capacity of central engineering teams to review and govern them. The ways in which software is designed and built are themselves changing, with AI-assisted development and agentic tooling becoming part of everyday practice.The Forward-Deployed Solution Engineer exists to respond to all of this in real time, from inside the teams doing the work, not from a distance.This person is embedded with delivery programmes and product teams. They review decisions and code as they are made, not after the fact. They drive solutions quickly, make independent technical judgements, and hold the quality bar without becoming a bottleneck. They are the link between what the business needs to build and what can actually be operated and maintained at enterprise scale.What You Will DoBe present in the workYou will sit inside delivery teams for the duration of engagements, not alongside them. You will attend design and development sessions, review technical decisions as they are being made, and intervene when something is heading in the wrong direction. You will not wait for a review gate. You will be the engineering rigour in the room.Validate and guide continuouslyYou will continuously assess whether what is being built conforms to Accelerant's architecture principles, data standards, and integration patterns. Where it does not, you will propose a better path and help the team take it. Where documented patterns do not yet exist, you will create them. You will not rely on others to produce the standard after the fact.Take decisions quicklyYou will be capable of making a sound technical decision on the day, with the information available, and moving forward. You will not wait for consensus where it is not needed. You will know when to escalate and when to act. The teams you work with will rely on your judgement.Bridge business-built capability to productionAcross Accelerant, business users are building capabilities using AI tools, low-code platforms, and scripting environments. Many of these capabilities are genuinely useful and represent Accelerant's direction of travel. Your job is to assess what has been built, understand what it actually does, identify the gaps between its current state and enterprise readiness, and create a clear path to production. You will ensure these solutions have appropriate data contracts, operational ownership, documentation, and supportability before they are relied upon by the business.Own integration designYou will design and validate integration patterns between the enterprise systems Accelerant operates, including ERP, CRM, HR, and reinsurance platforms, and the data platform and applications that consume data from them. You will ensure that integrations are clean, well-documented, API-first where appropriate, and built to a standard that does not require the original designer to be present in order to be supported.Drive data product quality and governanceYou will work with delivery teams and the Data Office to ensure that data products are described at source, that ownership is clearly assigned, and that the canonical data models Accelerant depends on are accurate and accessible. You will understand the difference between a physical implementation and a logical data model, and you will be able to articulate why that distinction matters to the people building on top of these products.Make knowledge durableYou will ensure that technical decisions are recorded, that architectural decision records exist and are accessible, and that the knowledge required to support what Accelerant builds does not live only in individuals. When you leave an engagement, the next person should be able to understand what was decided, why, and what the constraints were.What You Will Not DoYou will not write lengthy architecture documents that no one reads. You will not operate as a governance gate that slows delivery without adding value. You will not wait for others to bring problems to you. You will not review things in isolation from the teams building them. You will not produce opinions without evidence.Skills and Experie