Starr Insurance Companies is a leading insurance and investment organization, providing commercial property and casualty insurance, including travel and accident coverage, to almost every imaginable business and industry in virtually every part of the world.
Cornelius Vander Starr established his first insurance company in Shanghai, China in 1919. Today, we are one of the world’s fastest growing insurance organizations, capable of writing in 128 countries on 6 continents.
Responsibilities
- Planning Data Platform team workload, ensuring clear goals which link to business objectives, conducting regular team meetings, one-to-ones and performance reviews;
- Designing and maintaining data solutions;
- Performing root cause analysis on reported issues and identify solutions;
- Providing team members with technical leadership on data platform solutions, focusing on iterative delivery and continuous improvement;
- Planning team workload as per priorities agreed by the enterprise data steering group;
- Bring enhancement opportunities into the team’s backlog, through strong relationships with our stakeholders and regular engagement;
- Working closely with our Analytics Engineering team to ensure the data platform is able to support insights deliverables and working closely with our Data Governance team to ensure that solutions adhere to our data governance framework and policies.
Experience
- Experience working within a data function in a London Market Insurance setting, or other Financial Services background;
- Experience leading agile development teams;
- Experience working alongside a Data Governance team with a sound understanding of Data Governance frameworks and regulatory requirements;
- Experience in embedding data literacy and culture strategies within an organisation;
- Experience in presenting to audiences of all levels within an organisation.
Skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Able to build relationships and trust with our stakeholders
- Excellent ETL/ELT skillsets – SSIS & T-SQL, Data Factory, Jupyter Notebooks & T-SQL/Spark SQL/PySpark
- Excellent understanding Data Modelling and Data Warehouse concepts and proven implementations
- Azure DevOps (or similar) for portfolio management, CI/CD pipelines and source control
- A problem-solver with an analytical mindset.
Qualifications
- Microsoft Engineering-related qualifications
- London Market Certifications beneficial
- Business Analysis qualifications beneficial
- Agile/SCRUM-related courses beneficial
Starr is an equal opportunity employer, which means we'll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and we're committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We offer first class training and development opportunities to all employees. Our aim is to grow our own talent and bring out the best in people.
