Data Engineer - Admiral Pioneer

About Admiral

Admiral Group is a FTSE 100 Financial Services company with a presence in eight countries. The company was set up in 1993 as a car insurance specialist, but since then the Group has expanded in other countries and other insurance verticals such as household and travel insurance, in loans, price comparison platforms, and has developed innovative products.

The Group has 7 million customers worldwide and employs over 11,000 people across its operations. Admiral is a growth story with an enviable track record of strong financial performances, ROE consistently over 50%, a turnover of £3.5 bn, and a profit before tax of £520 m in 2019.

Admiral’s philosophy is that ‘people who like what they do, do it better’ and Admiral is proud to offer an open culture where achievement is rewarded and recognised and where coming to work is exciting every day. In 2019, Admiral received a special award from ‘Best Companies to Work For’ as the only company to feature within their rankings since they began 20 years ago: a true testament to the Group’s culture.

About Admiral Pioneer

Admiral Pioneer is a new business within Admiral Group with the objective of seeding, launching, and scaling new businesses that will become one of the growth engines for Admiral in the future. These new businesses will anchor around meeting customer needs in growth areas. We will achieve this by experimenting and proving new products, business models, and partnerships through a disciplined, discovery-driven approach.

We are building a dynamic and energizing environment where we will provide all the excitement and freedom of a scale-up but with the support and stability of an established large organisation. We treat our colleagues openly, equally, and fairly and give them a ton of opportunity and freedom to do their best work and make a positive impact.  We make mistakes because building from scratch is not easy but we are curious about where we get it wrong and we take this learning forward. We seek to recruit bright, passionate people who have a can-do attitude who look at the world and see the opportunity in our own small way, to make it better for our customers.

About the Role

We believe that understanding and engaging with our customers is central to everything we do. The way we gather, manage, and use our data will be a key contributor to our success, and our Data Engineer will be responsible for developing and governing data and information strategy and operations. You will develop and manage procedures and policies to collect, prepare, organise, protect, and analyse our data assets in line with company and policy guidelines.

Data Gathering

You will engage with the wider data community to understand where customer data can be sourced or augmented. You will employ a variety of languages and tools (e.g. scripting languages) to marry systems together where necessary, ensuring that data collection is efficient and frictionless, and improve customer engagement at every interaction. You will build systems which ingest data in real-time where possible, using scripted pipelines deployed through CICD pipelines.

Data Preparation

Working with business leads, you will understand their campaign objectives and work with them to source, select, and access the best data to achieve their business aims. You will develop set processes for data modelling, mining, and protection. Using sophisticated analytics, machine learning, and statistical methods you will prepare data for use in predictive and prescriptive modelling. You will handle data wrangling, creating jobs which cleanse, format and reformat data to enable reliable reporting and analytics.

Data Organisation & Protection 

You will work with the wider IT function, DPO and Information Security to organise and store all customer data in a common and reusable manner. You will ensure compliance with all regulatory and best practice standards and work across the team to uphold digital security systems to protect this data. You will work with IT security function to ensure all builds meet security standards. You will develop, construct, test, and maintain architectures and ensure that it meets the requirements of the business. All data infrastructure will conform with data mesh principles and support distributed data ownership.

Analysis & Reporting

You will engage with the data to understand and improve reliability, quality, quantity, and usage. You will work with business leaders to assess the impact and success of campaigns, then seek and deliver improvements in data sourcing and selection to improve business outcomes.

Business Partnering| You will effectively communicate the status, value, and importance of data to partner with Admiral Pioneer business leaders as an SME. You will engage with relevant teams in the Admiral Group to ensure compliance and consistency with group policies and standards. You will uphold and evangelise the principles of the data mesh architecture and support onboarding businesses to that.

About You

You are curious and analytical, and someone who enjoys understanding the complexities of a market or how a business works. You can disseminate complex data and architecture and make this interesting and engaging to others.

Knowledge and Abilities

• Deep understanding and interest in data and how this can be deployed to drive adoption and growth of new propositions
• Understanding of and engagement with data legislation and guidelines
• Familiar with data storage technologies and management tools - big data solutions
• Familiar with both batch and real-time data loading
• Ability to decipher, organise and analyse large amounts of data
• You will have a good understanding of API technology and how this can leverage the practical use of data
• Understanding of distributed data architectures
• An understanding of data governance and protection requirements and engagement with those
• Life-long learner

Experience

• Proven track record in data management, information systems, and tools - ideally experience of Snowflake
• Practical knowledge of Amazon Web Services or similar cloud services
• Experience of using data to drive business decisions, growth and innovation
• Experience of sourcing data sets through purchase and partnerships
• Experience of preparing data for use in growth and service campaigns, critically evaluating success and implementing process changes to drive better outcomes
• Building and deploying data models
• Experience working with/building APIs

Salary, Benefits and Work-Life Balance

We do not have a set salary for this position, as it will be dependent on the successful candidate’s experience. We are happy to see CVs from all candidates who meet the requirements and will be happy to discuss the remuneration package. Do not hesitate to contact the Recruitment Officer Allison Martin looking after this position if you would like to discuss this further.

At Admiral, we are proud to be a diverse business where we put our people and customers first. We have great benefits to ensure employees have a great work-life balance; it's one of the reasons why we're consistently voted one of the Sunday Times’ Best Big Companies to work for in the UK. We want you to have an element of freedom to define a working lifestyle that supports this, so accommodate flexible hours wherever possible.