Company Description
IGI - International General Insurance Co. Ltd. is a leading international specialist commercial insurer and reinsurer with a global portfolio of Energy, Property, Construction & Engineering, Ports & Terminals, Marine, Financial Institutions, General Aviation, Professional Indemnity, Casualty, Directors’ and Officers’, Legal Expenses, Political Violence, Contingency and Treaty Reinsurance. Registered in Bermuda as a limited liability company, with operational headquarters in Amman, Jordan and offices in London, Malta, Bermuda, Norway, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur and Casablanca, we aim to deliver outstanding levels of service to our clients and brokers. The company has a strong financial position, with a financial strength rating of "A-" (Stable) from Standard and Poor's, and an "A" (Stable) rating from A.M. Best. IGI seeks to maintain profitability through prudent risk selection and a diversified business model.
Duties and Responsibilities
Interpret the Blueprint (system architectures & selections) and use your previous experience to help drive the Team’s adoption and best-practice usage of our new data engineering platform, tools & techniques.
Own the core data engineering infrastructure and extract & load processes (data pipelines, orchestration, data lake, data warehouse).
Alongside the analytics engineer, jointly own the analytics engineering infrastructure and transformation processes (structured data modelling) including design & optimization of dimensional data marts.
Help to design data products & processes with the Data Team: design & iterate solutions, with particular focus on data engineering according to sound principles and make this data timely and available.
Work closely with the wider Tech team to develop integrated data products and optimize data infrastructure and processes: help to optimize the platforms and resource usage.
Work alongside vendors / system integrators in their delivery of data system capabilities.
Collaborate with the Security, Compliance, IT and Finance teams to ensure optimal data governance throughout IGI.
Job Specifications
Academic Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in data engineering, computer science, computer engineering, or related programming & data-oriented discipline.
Experience Required: 1 – 3 years' experience using a modern data engineering stack, ideally including Python, SQL, Spark, SQL Server, dbt, Azure Synapse, general cloud IaaS / PaaS, Fair knowledge in MDM /data governance / data security is a plus, experience in insurance, financial services or broader fintech is a plus.
Languages: English & Arabic
Demonstrable success delivering high-quality data engineering products and processes in established businesses: managing complexity, multiple dependencies and providing technical excellence.
Demonstrable deep understanding of the modern data stack and associated technologies and methodologies including pipelines, orchestration, governance of data lakes & data warehouse.
Demonstrable strong communication, analysis, and troubleshooting skills in an agile development process.
Demonstrable leadership of juniors and self-directed management of multiple tasks with limited supervision.
Demonstrable interest and enthusiasm to revolutionize this corner of the commercial & specialty insurance industry and make IGI a data leader.
Top Skills
What We Do
Specialist commercial insurer and reinsurer, underwriting a diversified portfolio of specialty lines.
Since our inception in 2001, IGI has been committed to providing specialty lines insurance and reinsurance solutions to our clients’ complex risks. Our reputation is based on focused underwriting expertise, flexibility in responding to customer needs, and ensuring efficient and responsive claims handling, all underpinned by stable management and a strong balance sheet.
Domiciled in Bermuda as a limited liability company, with offices in London, Amman, Bermuda, Malta, Oslo, Dubai, Casablanca and Kuala Lumpur, IGI is listed on Nasdaq Capital Markets under the symbol “IGIC”.
We write a worldwide portfolio of Energy, Property, General Aviation, Construction & Engineering, Ports & Terminals, Marine Cargo, Political Violence, Financial Institutions, General Third-Party Liability (Casualty), Legal Expenses, Professional Indemnity, D&O, Surety, Marine Trades, Marine Liability, Contingency, and Reinsurance Treaty Business.
Our ratings reflect the financial strength of our business: “A” (Stable) from AM Best; “A-” (Stable) from S&P. In 2023, we had net earnings of $118.2 million. Our holding company has assets in excess of $1,837.9 million, as at 31 December 2023
