Business Intelligence (BI) Developer

Canal Insurance Company•Greenville, SC

About The Position

Canal Insurance Company is seeking a highly skilled Business Intelligence (BI) Developer to design, develop, and deliver enterprise-grade reporting, dashboards, and analytical solutions. This role leverages Power BI and IBM Cognos Analytics to provide actionable insights across Claims, Underwriting, Agency, Finance, and Operations. The ideal candidate brings a strong combination of insurance domain expertise, technical BI proficiency, and the ability to translate complex business requirements into scalable, governed data and visualization solutions.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in BI / Data Analytics development
3+ years working with insurance products
Strong hands on experience with: on experience with:
Power BI (DAX, Power Query, data modeling)
IBM Cognos Analytics
Strong SQL skills (complex joins, window functions, performance tuning)
Experience with Azure, Data Lake, and SQL Server preferred
Experience working with large insurance datasets
Strong understanding of: P&C insurance operations Claims lifecycle and reserving concepts Underwriting workflows Agency hierarchy Premium and billing structures
Ability to interpret insurance KPIs and regulatory metrics

Nice To Haves

Experience with Guidewire DataHub / InfoCenter
Experience with ETL tools such as ADF, SSIS, Informatica, or similar
Experience supporting AMS or modernization programs
Familiarity with Data Governance and MDM concepts
Experience supporting Digital / Transformation initiatives
Strong stakeholder communication and collaboration skills
Ability to work effectively with both business and technical teams
Executive ready storytelling through dashboards and insightsready storytelling through dashboards and insights
Detail oriented with a strong analytical mindsetoriented with a strong analytical mindset
Demonstrated ownership of outcomes, not just report development

Responsibilities

Design and develop reporting solutions leveraging data from Policy, Claims, Billing, Agency Management systems, and third-party data sourcesparty data sources
Build reusable semantic and data models to support enterprise analytics
Collaborate closely with business stakeholders and Data Engineering teams on ETL/ELT processes and curated data layer integration
Develop interactive dashboards and reports using: Power BI IBM Cognos Analytics
Build executive level dashboards (Senior Leadership Team ready views, SLTready views)
Develop operational dashboards across the enterprise
Implement row level security (RLS) and role based accesslevel security (RLS) and rolebased access
Translate business KPIs into structured, reusable data models
Partner with Claims, Underwriting, and Finance stakeholders to refine and standardize metrics
Design and deliver cloudbased BI solutions on Azure, leveraging Azure Data Lake, Azure SQL, and Power BI to enable scalable, secure analytics.
Build and optimize semantic models and dashboards using Power BI, integrating data from Azure platforms with strong performance, governance, and cost efficiency.
Design and implement star schemas for reporting and analytics
Develop advanced DAX calculations and measures in Power BI
Optimize report performance through query tuning and aggregation strategies
Ensure data lineage, governance, and metric consistency
Support Medallion architecture (Raw → Silver → Gold)
Leverage Copilot and other LLM tools to enable self service analytics and reportingservice analytics and reporting
Perform data validation and reconciliation against source systems
Implement and support data quality checks
Support audit and regulatory reporting requirements
Document data definitions, transformations, and business logic