Lead Data Analyst - Insurance domain
Company: Cognizant
Location: Toronto, ON
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-05-04
About this role
Role: Senior Data Analyst – Insurance Domain
About Cognizant
Cognizant is one of the world’s leading professional services companies, transforming clients’ business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses.
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Senior Data Analyst with strong expertise in the Insurance domain to support data-driven initiatives across complex, enterprise-scale environments. In this role, you will work closely with business and technical stakeholders to analyze, curate, and deliver high-quality data solutions that enable informed decision-making.
You will contribute to data integration, data warehousing, and analytics initiatives, leveraging modern cloud platforms and best practices in data management.
Responsibilities
Analyze, validate, and interpret complex datasets to support business and technology decisions.
Partner with business stakeholders to gather and understand end-to-end data requirements, from ingestion through curation.
Perform hands-on data profiling and write SQL queries to analyze and validate data.
Support master data management, data integration, and data warehousing or data lake initiatives.
Provide inputs and recommendations to data modelers based on business and analytical requirements.
Develop and maintain high-quality data documentation artifacts within project timelines.
Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, communicating clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Contribute to analytics solutions in large-scale, data-centric environments, including Big Data platforms.
Required Qualifications
7+ years of experience as a Data Analyst in enterprise environments.
Strong knowledge of the Insurance domain , including underwriting concepts.
Experience working with Global IQX and integrating with th...