Senior Data & AI Architect

Job Description

Who We Are :

At PEMCO we're all about people - our customers, our employees, and the community. We're a mutual insurance company owned by our Northwest policyholders. We provide auto, home, renters, and boat coverage. Recognized by Forbes as one of America's Best Insurance Companies in both Auto and Home for 2025 based on customer survey feedback. We are consistently recognized for our outstanding customer service, employee expertise, community partnerships, and social impact programs.

Our social impact programs motivate high achievement by youth in education; build stronger and greener communities; and increase safety at home, on the road, and at play. We're committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, and to fostering an inspiring and inclusive workplace. These efforts create and cultivate an environment that builds fairness and understanding, encourages collaboration and flexibility, and celebrates all the ways in which we're different and the same - enabling all individuals to achieve their full potential.

Why We Need You :

PEMCO has a dynamic and challenging opportunity for a Senior Data & AI Architect to join our community. In this role, you will be responsible for providing architectural leadership in the transformation of PEMCO's data systems and integrating advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies within our data ecosystem. The role will have a focus on designing and implementing enterprise-wide scalable cloud-based data architectures, as well as modernizing existing on-premise data warehouse systems. The role is responsible for enhancing PEMCO's data capabilities, ensuring they align with organizational goals, while embedding AI / ML solutions to drive business insights.

What You'll Be Doing :

• Stay up to date with trends in cloud computing, data architecture, and AI / ML technologies, continuously evaluating new tools such as serverless architectures, microservices, and AI-driven analytics platforms; implement best practices in data modeling, data architecture design, security, and cloud infrastructure.
• Partner with key business stakeholders to translate strategic goals into actionable data architecture and modeling solutions; present architectural roadmaps and strategies to executive leadership, advocating for investments in data modernization initiatives.
• Lead data modernization efforts through the migration of on-premise data systems to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), designing cloud-native data architectures (data lakes, warehouses, serverless computing) for scalability, flexibility, and high performance, building real-time and batch data processing systems, optimizing for performance and cost-efficiency, and through assessing and modernizing existing on-premise data warehouses, improving storage, management, and data processing capabilities.
• Lead data modeling efforts, ensuring alignment with business requirements and data governance best practices.
• Implement data governance frameworks to ensure data integrity, security, and compliance, both on-premise and in the cloud; collaborate with security teams to ensure data protection and adherence to compliance standards.
• Embed AI / ML models (including generative AI) into the data ecosystem to drive insights, automation, and enhanced decision-making.
• Design, build, and optimize data models for both cloud and on-premise systems, ensuring robust and scalable structures that meet the business's analytical and operational needs.
• Collaborate with data scientists and AI teams to design architectures that facilitate AI / ML workflows, model training, and real-time inference; leverage advanced AI / ML tools such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, and AWS PageMaker to optimize data-driven solutions.
• Demonstrate behaviors consistent with PEMCO's policies, values, code of ethics and business conduct.
• Authentically support the PEMCO Brand and constantly are on the lookout for top talent to join us to achieve our Mission to Worry Less and Live More.
• Other duties as assigned.

What You'll Bring :

What We Value :

In fostering a culture where everyone thrives, PEMCO embodies a set of core traits that guide our collective efforts. These traits include :

These traits form the bedrock of our commitment to caring deeply for each other, our customers, and our community. As you become a part of PEMCO, your contribution will further enrich our success story, where the power of these shared values propels us forward.

Compensation :

The pay range for this role is shown below. Compensation decisions are determined based on an individual's qualifications, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Greater Seattle Area is defined as working within approximately 100 miles of Seattle.

Outside Greater Seattle is defined as working approximately 100 miles or more from Seattle.

Benefits :

Regular part-time PEMCO employees working at least 24 hours per week and regular full-time PEMCO employees are eligible to elect coverage under medical, dental, and vision plans for themselves and their eligible family members with generous employer premium cost shares. In addition, as a benefits-eligible employee, you are :

PEMCO provides the following paid leave programs for benefits-eligible employees in their first year of PEMCO employment :

Other miscellaneous benefit programs offered by PEMCO include :

Other compensation depending on role, contributions, and performance may include :

Equal Employment Opportunity :

At PEMCO, we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our products, and our community to flourish. PEMCO is honored to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, or veteran status.

Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws :

Salary : $133,779 - $222,966