Senior Data Engineer

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About the UK Data Engineering team

The Data Engineer will be part of the UK Data Engineering team as subject matter expert, responsible for the acquisition, transformation and delivery of retail data to the Hiscox UK business unit.

This team directly deals with a wide base of internal clients that we are required to support with valuable information, with the aim to back their business decisions and contribute to Hiscox success.

Currently building a new data platform based on Databricks and Azure technologies, the aim is to be able to support all the UK operational data needs.

The role

As part of Data Engineering team, you will be expected to share your time between supporting cloud platform, engage with internal stakeholders and support the on premise platform up to discontinuation.

UK Data engineers are not solely backend developers,  you will be expected to develop an understanding of the business, be comfortable about discussing analytics topics with the wider business, being able to lead meetings, represent the team as subject matter expert in large projects and build a contact network in Hiscox.

The ideal candidate has a good balance between being an experienced data pipeline builder and data wrangler who enjoys improving the technical infrastructure, keeping in sight what actually delivers value to the business and being a customer manager, being able to able to engage and relate to people across a variety of backgrounds, understand their needs, critically access and negotiate the delivery of products.

You will be responsible to represent the team in projects and deliver them end to end, being able to act with autonomy, escalating when appropriate.

You will be required to build relationships with external providers on behalf of the team, understand and critically assess their proposals to drive the best output for UK retail.

Having previously experience in the cloud data technology stack is a requirement, as you are expected to act as a technical expert, advising on technological decisions and contributing to the definition of best practices.

Your key responsibilities will be

Maintaining the existing processes in place, monitoring batch failures, acting accordingly in identifying and resolving the root cause and communicate with stakeholders on resolution and timescales;

Design and build data pipelines to collect data from different sources for different purposes and types of consumption across the whole data engineering life cycle;

Build productive relationships with business stakeholders to understand high value business problems that can be solved through the application of data processing and analytical systems and deliver robust solutions on the back of it;

Act as the single point of contact for the team in large projects being able to follow the process end to end – understand requirements, negotiate deadlines, raise with management resources required and risks, maintain status updates and technical delivery of the data requirements;

Supporting other teams including data scientists and data operations analysts, by providing technical expertise, understanding and critically assess their requirements, negotiating delivery and deadlines;

Understand business requirements and refine into development tasks, estimating their complexity and dependencies, including management of tasks delivered by other technical teams (ie. Devops);

Contribute to define the best practices and standards for the development being done, including working with solutions architects to implement sustainable and consistent solutions for Hiscox UK.

Review the work and coach junior team members, including embedded peer review process.

Required skills:

• Passion for and experience of building data analytical platforms to deliver business value;
• Experience working with Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage, Microsoft Azure Data Factory, Databricks, EventHub, SSIS and relational databases;
• Good understanding of different types of data (i.e. structured, semi-structured and unstructured data) and the considerations that should be made in how they are stored;
• Ability to contribute to all aspects of technical solutions to business problems – design, infrastructure, development, testing and maintenance;
• Track record of taking initiative and delivering projects end-to-end; clear evidence of being self-driven/ motivated, working autonomy;
• Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions, identify the source of any data errors or performance issues, identify opportunities for improvement and solve and /or implement them;
• The ability to communicate with all levels, and be confident enough to lead meetings, negotiate deliveries and deadlines and represent the team in projects;
• Immense curiosity, high energy and desire to go the extra mile to make a difference;
• Fluent in English, verbally and written.

Nice to have:

• Experience with PowerBI platforms or similar;
• Hands-on experience in the Insurance Sector or Financial Services.

About Hiscox

As an international specialist insurer we are far removed from the world of mass market insurance products. Instead we are selective and focus on our key areas of expertise and strength - all of which is underpinned by a culture that encourages us to challenge convention and always look for a better way of doing things.

We insure the unique and the interesting. And we search for the same when it comes to talented people. Hiscox is full of smart, reliable human beings that look out for customers and each other. We believe in doing the right thing, making good and rebuilding when things go wrong. Everyone is encouraged to think creatively, challenge the status quo and look for solutions.

Scratch beneath the surface and you will find a business that is solid, but slightly contrary. We like to do things differently and constantly seek to evolve. We might have been around for a long time (our roots go back to 1901), but we are young in many ways, ambitious and going places.

Some people might say insurance is dull, but life at Hiscox is anything but. If that sounds good to you, get in touch.

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