About Us
Ascent is now part of Acuity Analytics, marking an exciting new chapter with strong global reach, an impressive client base, and ambitious growth plans. Together, we deliver cutting-edge data and digital transformation solutions to high-growth and regulated organisations—combining talent, technology, and deep domain expertise to drive real business impact.
About the Role
We’re looking for a (Senior) BI & Data Engineer to support global claims reporting for a leading reinsurance organisation. You’ll work at the intersection of Power BI and Azure Databricks, building scalable data models and high-impact dashboards that serve as a single source of truth for the business.
Key Responsibilities
Power BI & Analytics
- Build and enhance Power BI dashboards, datasets, and semantic models
- Apply best-practice data modelling (star schema, conformed dimensions)
- Develop DAX measures for key claims KPIs (incurred, paid, reserves, etc.)
- Optimize performance (efficient models, DAX tuning, incremental refresh)
- Ensure consistent metrics across all reporting
Databricks & Data Engineering
- Work with Azure Databricks (Delta Lake) as the core data platform
- Support development of curated data layers (Silver / Gold)
- Build SQL / PySpark transformations for reporting
- Ensure data quality, reconciliation, and traceability
- Follow governance standards and collaborate with data teams
Collaboration & Delivery
- Partner with Product Owners and stakeholders
- Turn business needs into scalable BI solutions
- Contribute to agile delivery (sprints, backlog, documentation)
- Share knowledge and best practices across the team
Skills Required
- Strong Power BI experience (data modelling, DAX, performance tuning)
- Solid experience with Azure Databricks (PySpark and/or Spark SQL)
- Good understanding of Delta Lake and medallion architecture
- Strong SQL and data warehousing knowledge
- Experience working with large, complex datasets
- Comfortable in international, stakeholder-heavy environments
Nice to Have
- Insurance / reinsurance or claims reporting experience
- Knowledge of data governance, data products, or data mesh
- Exposure to financial or actuarial reporting
- Experience with DevOps / CI-CD (Power BI or Databricks)
Ways of Working
- Agile environment
- Collaborative, team-focused culture
- Strong focus on quality, ownership, and delivery
If you’re excited about building modern data platforms and delivering meaningful insights at scale, we’d love to hear from you.
Why join us
People are at the Heart of our Business. By investing in people, we achieve exceptional results for our clients and create new opportunities for our teams to thrive. Check out this page for more details.
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What We Do
Ascent is a design-led software, data and cloud business that specialises in advanced analytics and AI. We design, build and manage cloud-native products, solutions, platforms and experiences on Azure. Our community of engineers, architects, data scientists, experience designers and consultants is here to help customers do something new, or do something better. Ascent is home to 450+ technology specialists across 5 key European locations (UK, Germany, Portugal, Malta and Bulgaria). Our talented, consultative teams deliver a range of solutions, from digital product and service design to mobile app development, API integrations, data engineering, AI and data science. Our modern app, data and infrastructure platforms help businesses leave legacy behind and enable rapid, efficient innovation
