Head of L&H Data Foundation

Zurich · On-site

About this role

Data is at the core of SCOR’s strategic plan Forward 2026 as one of its key enablers. The Chief Data Officer organization plays a central role in delivering a governed, trusted data platform acting as a Single Version of Truth across the organization. 

As Head of L&H Data Foundation, you are accountable for the end-to-end data foundation for the Life & Health domain, ensuring that data is correctly sourced, validated, transformed, and modeled into robust Analytical Data Models. 

Your primary responsibility is to ensure that data accurately reflects the business reality, from underwriting to claims and actuarial processes, and that this consistency is maintained across the full data lifecycle. This includes ensuring that data supports the consistent calculation and interpretation of key business metrics such as premiums, claims, reserves, and performance indicators. 

You lead agile, cross-functional squads, driving a product-based delivery approach focused on continuous value delivery. You act as the key interface between business, analytics, and engineering teams, ensuring that data solutions are both technically sound and business relevant. 

While contributing to governance and platform evolution, your core focus is to ensure that the foundations are built correctly to enable scalable analytics and AI use cases, with ADMs serving as the trusted representation of the business. 


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.

Company at a glance

SCOR, one of the world’s largest reinsurers, serves more than 5,000 clients worldwide, providing a diversified and innovative range of solutions to control and manage risk. SCOR delivers advanced financial solutions, analytics and services across all dimensions of risk in Life & Health, Property & Casualty, and Investments.

Reinsurance lies at the intersection of technical expertise and scientific progress. Models, data, and pricing and reserving tools are essential, yet they are never sufficient on their own. Sound risk decisions require expert judgment, experience and perspective. This is what we call the Art and Science of Risk. Reinsurance is a knowledge industry, where expertise grows through accumulation, transmission and practice.

Across the Group, 3,600 experts based in more than 35 offices worldwide contribute to this collective intelligence. Actuaries, underwriters, risk management specialists, and Tech & Data experts transform data into insight, explore extreme scenarios, define the boundaries of insurability and help anticipate emerging risks. Together, they strengthen the resilience of SCOR, our clients and the societies we serve.

This expertise is built through shared experience,continuous questioning and collective reflection. Like artists, we belong to schools of thought, learning first to observe, then to replicate, and ultimately to innovate. This ongoing transmission of knowledge enables SCOR to develop a distinctive approach, combining rigor, creativity and long-term vision in the service of risk mastery.

This shared commitment underpins SCOR’s role as a global reinsurer. By turning risk into resilience and sustainable value, our collective of experts acts with responsibility and purpose. Together, we help protect the future, and shape it, for our clients, for society and for generations to come.

Team Size1,001-5,000 employees
WorkspaceOn-site
IndustryInsurance
Location
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Websitescor.com
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