Hiscox

Job Type:

Permanent

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What is the Opportunity?

Hiscox US is seeking a Senior Data & Analytics Specialist with a proven background in value-driven data development and usage with a solid foundation of data analytics and intelligence technologies to join our growing data team and help us leverage data as a strategic asset for our commercial business insurance products. The Senior Data & Analytics Specialist will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining data products and solutions that support business intelligence, analytics, and reporting needs with the aim of making data available and intelligible for all users. You will also collaborate with business stakeholders, product owners, data engineers, and data analysts to understand data requirements, define data models, ensure data quality and consistency, and take ownership of the effective use of analytics and intelligence data by business professionals and stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and derive technical requirements to support development, documentation, and implementation of the data solution design.
• Work with the leadership team, stakeholders, and product owner to plan for new projects (solution design, infrastructure planning, estimation)
• Create and maintain data models, including self-service capabilities, that align with business objectives and data as a product vision, making definitions and usability clear and accessible by users.
• Provide data expertise and guidance to business users and data consumers.
• Perform effective problem solving with business experts, management, and team members to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution.
• Perform data analysis and validation to ensure data accuracy and integrity.
• Collaborate the peers to ensure proper adoption and documentation of governance and best practices across data development.
• Establish, maintain, and promote consistent development methodology.
• Identify areas to simplify, reuse code and fix technical debts (e.g. performance tuning)
• Contribute to design sessions and conduct code and/or release reviews.
• Codify knowledge and expand the knowledge repository within the team.
• Coach, mentor and reinforce the team in the operating model and data domain knowledge.
• Conduct quality control and record-keeping procedures to ensure the highest levels of data integrity and keep team members accountable to meet expectations.
• Manage day to day technical challenges during execution and communicate any risks or issues to management.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field
• 5+ years of work experience in data warehousing, data modeling, and/or data engineering
• Deep knowledge and experience in data management, integration, and analytics architecture
• Strong knowledge of data warehousing and data lakehouse concepts, architectures, and methodologies
• Proficient in data modeling tools and techniques
• Experience with data as a product and business intelligence concepts, such as data governance, data quality, data lineage, data catalog, data visualization, and data storytelling
• Expertise in self-service analytics and visualization capabilities utilizing tools such as Power BI
• Working knowledge of data integration tools and frameworks, such as ETL, ELT, API, or streaming
• Familiarity with data structures and formats, such as relational, non-relational, JSON, XML, etc.
• Knowledge of scripting languages – Power shell script, Javascript, Python, R, web-services, etc.
• Strong Insurance domain skills with experience in problem solving and demonstrated ability to implement and deliver industry specific solutions.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work in a collaborative environment.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Strong professional presence and ability to drive outcomes/value.
• Experience with Agile frameworks and methodologies is highly desirable.

Salary Overview 

$101,000 - $144,000

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