Job Type:
PermanentBuild a brilliant future with Hiscox
Company description
Hiscox is a diversified international insurance group with a powerful brand, strong balance sheet and plenty of room to grow. Listed on the London Stock Exchange and headquartered in Bermuda (with the bulk of group leadership sitting in London), Hiscox has over 3,000 staff across 14 countries and 34 offices.
Structured by geography and product, Hiscox’s long-held business strategy has helped them grow from a niche Lloyd’s underwriter to an international insurance group with a powerful consumer brand. Hiscox is comprised of the following business lines:
- London Market
- Reinsurance & Insurance Linked Securities (ILS)
- Retail:
- Hiscox USA
- Hiscox UK
- Hiscox Europe
For the financial year 2022 GWP grew to $4.425m, with net premiums earned growing to $2.928m.
Hiscox’s Purpose: “We give people and businesses the confidence to realise their ambitions”
Hiscox values:
- Courage; dare to take a risk
- Human; clean, fair, and inclusive
- Ownership; passionate, commercial, and accountable
- Integrity; do the right thing, however hard
- Connected; together, build something better
The Team
This role forms part of the Enterprise Technology (ET) team lead by the CTO for ET who are accountable for the full life cycle of around 140 applications. ET has several service verticals, including Business Applications made up of 6 value streams and an Enterprise Application team, Data, End User Experience, Core Engineering, Architecture, and Portfolio Management. The role will sit within the Data service vertical, led by a Head of Data Engineering, reporting into the Lead Data Engineer.
Technical Skills
- Development background with exposure to Data Warehousing at scale on both cloud and on-premise
- Experience developing ETL solutions in GCP including Python and SQL as well as SQL Server including SSIS & T-SQL
- Exposure to DW development practices (code & configuration management, build processes)
- Strong understanding of enterprise level data warehouse architectures, data modelling concepts, and ETL/ELT best practices
- Ability to take business requirements and work with other team members to estimate and design end-to-end solutions
- Experience working in Agile delivery models with CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments across data platforms.
Our nice to haves:
- Insurance industry experience
- Exposure to BI reporting toolsets – ideally Power BI
- Demonstrable experience in mentoring or supporting the development of junior team members
- Capability to architect highly scalable distributed systems, using different tools
- Intellect and gravitas to influence and gain credibility with stakeholders
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Creative, proactive, logical and innovative – you do not accept the status quo
- Highly results driven, with the energy and determination to succeed in a fast paced environment
- Demonstrate a commitment to quality, service and personal ownership
- Deal well with ambiguity and enable a consensus to be reached
- An inquisitive mind-set and desire to understand both data and business requirements
- Continuous self-improvement and learning
Work with amazing people and be part of a unique culture
Skills Required
- Development experience with data warehousing at scale across cloud and on-premise environments
- Experience developing ETL solutions in GCP using Python and SQL
- Experience developing ETL solutions with SQL Server, SSIS, and T-SQL
- Exposure to data warehouse development practices, including code and configuration management and build processes
- Strong understanding of enterprise data warehouse architectures and data modeling concepts
- Knowledge of ETL and ELT best practices
- Ability to interpret business requirements and estimate and design end-to-end solutions collaboratively
- Experience working in Agile delivery models with CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments across data platforms
- Insurance industry experience
- Exposure to BI reporting tools, ideally Power BI
- Experience mentoring or supporting junior team members
- Ability to architect highly scalable distributed systems using different tools
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to influence stakeholders and build credibility
- Creative, proactive, logical, and innovative approach
- Results-driven mindset and ability to succeed in a fast-paced environment
- Commitment to quality, service, and personal ownership
- Ability to handle ambiguity and build consensus
- Inquisitive mindset and desire to understand data and business requirements
- Commitment to continuous self-improvement and learning
Hiscox Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Hiscox and has not been reviewed or approved by Hiscox.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous PTO, two additional 'Hiscox Days,' and a four‑week paid sabbatical after five years create a notably broad time‑off offering. Policies also include paid parental leave and options to purchase extra days in some locations.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical coverage is complemented by mental‑health and wellbeing resources such as EAP and mindfulness apps, with private medical and dental options available in certain regions or after tenure. These elements provide comprehensive support across physical and mental health needs.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits include pension/401(k) programs with employer contributions that can increase with service. Share‑save options and profit‑related programs add longer‑term financial planning avenues.
Hiscox Insights
What We Do
Hiscox is a leader in specialist insurance. We seek to provide the best protection and peace of mind for our clients through high quality insurance products, backed with excellent service. We are experts in covering a wide range of personal and commercial risks.
