Reinsurance Data Engineer

TEAM OVERVIEW

The ADAPT (AI, Data and Platform Technologies) Engineering team is integral to KKR's technological strategy, architecting and supporting the firm's foundational data and AI capabilities. This team is recognized as a key enabler for global scale and business transformation, driving excellence by evolving technology into robust, platform-based solutions that enhance agility and deliver material business impact. Within ADAPT, the Insurance & Reinsurance Data Engineering function is responsible for designing, governing and enabling the enterprise data architecture that powers KKR's reinsurance accounting, treaty management, risk analytics and regulatory reporting capabilities.

POSITION SUMMARY

KKR is seeking a Reinsurance Accounting & Risk Data Engineer to join the ADAPT Engineering team in Boston. This is a pivotal, hands-on technical leadership role requiring deep expertise in reinsurance accounting data, risk data architecture, data modeling and modern Data Fabric design. The successful candidate will lead the design and strategic evolution of the enterprise data architecture supporting KKR's reinsurance accounting, treaty management and risk analytics functions — ensuring seamless integration, reconciliation and accessibility across ceded and assumed reinsurance portfolios, counterparty risk systems and financial reporting platforms.

Partnering closely with reinsurance operations, actuarial, finance, risk management and technology teams, this individual will ensure that data related to treaty structures, ceded/assumed premiums, loss recoveries, reserves, collateral, counterparty exposures, regulatory capital and risk aggregation is accurate, consistent, well-modeled and effectively leveraged for accounting close processes, regulatory compliance, risk analytics and strategic decision-making.

This role requires defining the technical blueprint for how KKR structures, stores and leverages reinsurance and risk data to power its insurance platforms, ensuring data integrity, performance and accessibility for critical firm-wide services.

This is an onsite role, with expectations to be in our Boston offices 4 days per week.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

· Design and implement a scalable Data Fabric architecture enabling unified, real-time access to reinsurance accounting and risk data across distributed systems and business domains.

· Define and maintain enterprise data architecture vision, principles, standards and reference architectures for the reinsurance data ecosystem aligned with KKR's ADAPT strategy.

· Lead development of enterprise-grade conceptual, logical and physical data models for treaty structures, ceded/assumed accounting, loss recoveries, collateral, counterparty risk and regulatory capital.

· Establish and enforce data modeling standards, naming conventions and best practices ensuring consistency, reusability and scalability across all reinsurance and risk data assets.

· Implement robust data governance frameworks, data quality standards and stewardship processes ensuring compliance with STAT, GAAP, IFRS 17, LDTI, Solvency II, BSCR and RBC requirements.

· Establish data lineage, cataloging, metadata management and reconciliation frameworks as foundational components of the reinsurance Data Fabric architecture.

· Partner with Reinsurance Operations, Treaty Accounting, Actuarial, Finance and Risk teams to understand data needs and strategic use cases across the reinsurance lifecycle.

· Enable risk aggregation, catastrophe modeling, counterparty exposure analytics and ensure data readiness for advanced analytics and AI/ML workloads.

· Act as a reinsurance domain expert advising on treaty terms, ced