Full-Time

Lead Data Engineering Architect

Lloyds Marketplace

Updated on 9/4/2026

Deadline 10/31/26
Fractal

Fractal

1-10 employees

NFT marketplace for blockchain gaming assets

No salary listed

London, UK

Hybrid

Category
Data & Analytics (1)
Required Skills
Data Lake
Microsoft Azure
Data Engineering
Databricks
Data Analysis

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Requirements
  • Strong insurance domain experience, preferably within the Lloyd’s marketplace.
  • Good understanding of tools and platforms used across the Lloyd’s insurance ecosystem.
  • Proficiency in the Azure ecosystem, including Blob Storage, Data Lake, Synapse Analytics, Databricks, Functions, and Monitor.
  • Demonstrated expertise in analytics consulting, data analysis, and data analytics.
  • Strong business acumen with the ability to connect technology decisions to business outcomes.
  • Experience identifying business opportunities and driving innovation through technology and data.
  • Proven ability to develop strategies that support business transformation and profitable growth.
  • Strong stakeholder management, consulting, and communication skills, including data storytelling and executive presentations.
  • Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks, cloud platforms, integration solutions, and modern data ecosystems.
Responsibilities
  • Design and deliver scalable, secure, and business-aligned solution architectures for insurance platforms and applications.
  • Collaborate with business, analytics, and technology stakeholders to translate strategic objectives into end-to-end solution designs.
  • Provide architecture leadership across applications, integrations, data platforms, cloud technologies, and digital transformation initiatives.
  • Leverage data analytics, quantitative analysis, and business insights to identify opportunities for innovation, operational efficiency, and profitable growth.
  • Drive strategy development by aligning technology solutions with business goals, market demands, and customer needs.
  • Support digital commerce, underwriting, claims, and policy administration processes through modern technology solutions.
  • Create architecture roadmaps and data-driven presentations using data storytelling techniques.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to improve sales, marketing, and supply chain-related processes where applicable within the insurance value chain.
  • Manage stakeholder expectations and provide architectural governance throughout the project lifecycle.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with sales analysis, marketing insights, and quantitative analysis.

Fractal.is operates a blockchain-based marketplace for gaming NFTs where developers can list games and in-game assets and players can buy, sell, and trade unique digital items. The platform supports minting and secondary sales of NFTs, with transactions generating revenue through commissions. It emphasizes community engagement through channels like Discord and Twitter to drive listing activity and user retention. Compared to others, Fractal.is specializes in the gaming sector, aggregating multiple games and assets under one marketplace, and focuses on building a connected metaverse ecosystem for developers and gamers. Its goal is to grow a active, trusted marketplace that enables true ownership of digital assets and vibrant participation in the gaming/NFT space.

Company Size

1-10

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$35.2M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2021

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Stash still shows live product activity, with Fractal docs updated January 2026.
  • GamesBeat reported over 121 NFT collections across 85 games launched by June 2025.
  • Polygon integration in September 2024 widened distribution beyond Solana and attracted strategic investment.

What critics are saying

  • Web3 products sat in a holding pattern during 2024, undermining the original NFT thesis.
  • Stash must beat Shopify, Xsolla, and Unity-backed commerce tools by 2027.
  • If game studios skip direct web shops, Stash's transaction take-rate model dies.

What makes Fractal unique

  • Justin Kan pivoted Fractal into Stash in January 2024, targeting game commerce directly.
  • Stash offers white-label web shops, dynamic pricing, loyalty, and player-owned storefronts.
  • Its Fractal heritage still gives developer distribution, wallet, launcher, and onramp tooling.

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Company News

Dealflow
Oct 20th, 2024
Fractal raises $10m in funding

Renfe secured a €78 million contract, while Madrid-based Fractal raised $10 million led by Kayyak Ventures. Oakley Capital acquired a 70% stake in logistics software company Alerce, which has sales of around €12 million and EBITDA between €4 million and €5 million. Other funding news includes Shakers raising €6 million, Cocoon €2 million, and Kalma €1 million. Accenture acquired cybersecurity firm Innotec Security. Nauta led an €8.8 million Series A round in UK-based Spotted Zebra.

VentureBeat
Jun 6th, 2023
Fractal Unveils Fstudio Tools To Make Building Blockchain Games Easier

Missed the GamesBeat Summit excitement? Don't worry! Tune in now to catch all of the live and virtual sessions here. Justin Kan’s Fractal is unveiling FStudio, a set of tools that make it easier for game studios to build, market and monetize Web3 games without blockchain expertise.Kan, the cofounder of Twitch who started Fractal in 2021 to build tools for blockchain games, believes that blockchain tech is the best way to get to a player-driven economy. But he said the problem is the gaming industry has become obsessed with talking about that backend technology – turning off players and distracting Web3 startups from the main mission: creating excellent gameplay experiences. To move forward, we need to refocus the conversation on the players, not the tech, Kan said in an interview with GamesBeat.“In the last eight months or so, we’ve been working on a bunch of features that help empower the next wave of developers for Web3 gaming,” Kan said. “We call it FStudio. We’re solving the problems that we learned from talking to developers

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Jun 6th, 2023
Twitch Co-Founder's Fractal Launches Tools to Help Devs Build NFT Games

Gaming-centric Web3 startup and NFT marketplace Fractal has announced Fractal Studio, or FStudio, a three-part product the firm says will enable video game developers to more easily add crypto integrations into their titles without having to code.

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Decrypt
Jan 24th, 2023
Twitch Co-Founder’s Solana Gaming Platform Fractal Expands to Polygon - Decrypt

Fractal co-founder Justin Kan tells Decrypt that many game developers "want to be on Polygon" as the platform expands.