Fortitude Reinsurance Company Ltd. (Fortitude Re) is one of the world’s leading providers of legacy reinsurance solutions. They work with the world’s leading insurance companies to help them execute comprehensive, transformational solutions for legacy Life & Annuity and P&C lines. Fortitude Re manages a general account of approximately $111 billion across life, annuity, and property & casualty insurance products. The company takes a long-term view on growth and is proud to be backed by a consortium of sophisticated institutional investors led by The Carlyle Group and T&D Insurance Group. Incorporated under the laws of Bermuda on January 1, 2017, Fortitude Re’s roots in the insurance industry and the experience of their leadership go back many decades. Fortitude Re’s leadership team has an average industry tenure of over 20 years, and an impressive track record of successfully managing the most complex legacy liabilities. Their deep insurance experience and proprietary risk modeling capabilities allow them to structure bespoke transactions that benefit both insurance companies and their policyholders. Fortitude Re continues to strengthen its ability to pursue further growth and provide innovative solutions for the global insurance industry. Click here for more information about Fortitude Re.
The AVP, Reference Data Governance is responsible for developing and managing enterprise frameworks for ontologies, taxonomies, and reference data to ensure consistency, accuracy, and alignment across business processes and systems. This role partners with governance, engineering, analytics, and business stakeholders to define common data standards, maintain controlled vocabularies, and support interoperability.
Reporting to the VP, Data Governance, this position ensures data is standardized, well-structured, and discoverable to support compliance, operational efficiency, and advanced analytics.
This role will be based in our Jersey City, NJ office on a hybrid basis.
What You Will Do:
- Define and maintain ontologies, taxonomies, and semantic models with common definitions and vocabularies.
- Manage reference data standards, stewardship, and lifecycle governance across key domains.
- Align ontologies and reference data with industry standards to enable cross-domain interoperability.
- Embed reference data controls and validation rules in enterprise platforms.
- Ensure traceability and compliance with data governance standards.
- Partner across governance, engineering, and analytics to embed standards into data solutions.
- Promote data literacy and awareness of reference data practices across the organization.
What You Will Have:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s in Information Management, Computer Science, Data Science, or related field.
- 8+ years of experience in data management, reference data, master data, or information architecture, with at least 3+ years in a leadership role.
- Deep understanding of ontology, taxonomy, and metadata management frameworks.
- Strong knowledge of reference/master data management tools and practices.
- Hands-on experience with metadata platforms (e.g., Alation, Databricks Unity) and semantic and data modeling standards
- Familiarity with regulatory and compliance requirements (e.g., SOX, GDPR) relevant to financial/insurance/reinsurance industries.
- Excellent collaboration, analytical, and communication skills, with ability to influence across technical and business stakeholders.
- Domain knowledge of insurance, reinsurance, or financial services is required.
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The base salary range for this role is listed below and will be commensurate with candidate experience. Pay ranges for candidates may differ based on the cost of labor in that location. In addition to base salary, all employees are eligible for an annual bonus based on company and individual performance as well as a generous benefits package.
At Fortitude Re, our strength has always come from our people. Our success is deeply rooted in our ability to embrace the unique attributes, perspectives and experiences of every individual within our company. Fostering a culture of inclusion and belonging where everyone—regardless of background, race, religion, sexual orientation or gender identity—feels valued and respected is a foundation of our culture.
We are committed to being an equal opportunity employer and evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, diversity of thought and any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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