Job Title
Senior Data Engineer
Job Description
This is a Day rate contract (6 months) - Inside IR35
Following extensive global expansion over several years and a drive to standardise common systems and platforms globally, PL Re is undertaking a major back-office transformation programme and has established a Divisional Data Team to develop and manage an enterprise-wide data solution, reporting services and to embed best practice data governance. This team will support the business throughout its back-office transformation and will deliver significant improvement in efficiencies and the value derived from our data assets globally.
We are looking to appoint a Senior Data engineer contractor; to support the definition and delivery of an enterprise data platform with engineering best practices. Specifically, this role will help the divisional data team (DDT) to understand, manage, and prioritise data engineering and transformation activities.
The role is reporting to the AVP Data engineering, who is responsible for prioritising, planning, and driving forward the data engineering and transformation tasks required.
This role holder will build close working relationships with the technology and business units across our operating geographies and will be responsible for ensuring that technical requirements are clearly understood throughout the project lifecycle, and that we deliver a data warehouse that empowers delivering reporting outputs that meet the needs of our internal customers.
This is an exciting opportunity to join this new team. The Senior Data engineer contractor would fill a critical role within the organisation tasked with analysis, design, implementation, testing, maintenance, and support for data-intensive pipelines. Also, would play an integral role in enhancing system quality, identifying issues, and transforming applications through innovation. If you're a tech-savvy individual with a strong drive for creativity, excellence, and ambition, we want to hear from you!
Duties
Prepare technical design specifications based on functional requirements and analysis documents.
Implement, test, maintain, and support software, as outlined in technical design specifications.
Enhance system quality through identification of issues, common patterns, and formulation of standard operating procedures.
Identify and implement opportunities for system enhancements.
Working to support Business Control compliance through technology and responsible for ensuring IT Controls are incorporated into Systems.
Maintain and improve existing codebases and conduct peer code review changes.
Liaise with team members to implement technical designs.
Investigate and utilize new technologies as relevant.
Review functional requirements, analysis, and design documents to provide pertinent feedback.
Provide technical support to customers, solving problems and answering queries.
Mentor other development staff members and provide technical assistance as needed.
Participate in architecture and code reviews.
Support testing and validation activities within data related projects and initiatives.
Qualifications & Experience
Proven experience in the market as an experienced Data engineer.
Extensive experience with SQL cloud databases like Snowflake, and MS SQLServer.
Solid experience of transformation tool – DBT cloud and clear understanding of one ETL tool (For eg: Matillion, SNP Glue)
Experience working with AWS and/or Azure DevOps and extensive debugging experience.
Clear understanding of data modeling, data curation, and orchestration
Experience with Business Intelligence tools like PowerBI is a plus.
Sound understanding of unit testing, test-driven development, functional testing, and performance aspects.
Knowledge of at least one shell scripting language.
Ability to network with key contacts outside of own expertise.
Excellent interpersonal, organizational, presentation and facilitation skills.
Must demonstrate result-orientation and customer-focused mindset.
Strong organizational skills are required.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills enabling efficient interaction and collaboration with all stakeholders.
Knowledge of reinsurance or insurance industry concepts is a plus.
Technologies
Nice to haves
Key Skills & Behaviours
Demonstrates an appropriate level of technical skills for the role and an appreciation of current issues affecting their profession and the life reinsurance industry.
Takes responsibility for the quality, completeness, and accuracy of own work and that of the team under them.
Able to prioritise competing requests and deadlines.
Provides accurate and timely updates on status of work and escalates issues appropriately.
Committed to being an open and fair team member who shares information, knowledge, and experience openly.
Communicates in a clear and practical manner both verbally and in writing, without over-reliance on technical language.
Challenges status quo and is not limited by historical thinking or embedded practices, critically evaluates and challenges current work practices.
Embraces change and can work in a fluid environment with challenging deadlines: able to be flexible and resourceful.
Team player: ability to work with people with a diverse range of skills and experiences and get the best out of every individual.
Agile approach to projects; able to demonstrate the ability to think ahead and always focus on the end goal.
Working For Pacific Life Re
Every person in our global team is valued for the unique qualities they bring to our business and we seek to build their expertise and support their individual ambitions at every step. Of course, we take our work seriously and we know our team can operate under great pressure. We work hard and thrive on achievement, but we also know how to have fun and relax too. We regularly host a range of team building days to strengthen our team's connection with each other and reflect on their successes.
Providing employees with a healthy work-life balance is very important to our culture. We have a wide range of employee benefits and we host regular social activities and well being initiatives. We are also committed to supporting our employee's involvement in their communities, by actively fundraising, hosting charity events and overseeing volunteering opportunities.
Benefits (Only for Permanent and Fixed Term Employees)
Leave
25 days of annual leave with option to buy/sell more days
Adoption and fertility leave
Generous enhanced parental leave
Healthcare
Savings & Retirement
Wellness
Subsidized gym membership
Access to Employee Assistance Program
Cycle to Work and Electric Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme
Time off for volunteering
Charitable matching of employee donations
As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we will provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure equal access to applicants with disabilities. Please contact us about your needs so that we can discuss these with you to make sure that suitable adjustments are made, where possible.
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