Insurance Specialist Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• University degree in Computer Science, Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, or equivalent.
• Min 3-5 years of experience with prototyping and development of data and analytics products as a Data Analyst or Data Engineer.
• Expert level skills in SQL and Python on cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with modern insurance processes and common data products is considered a strong asset.
• Familiarity with data science, machine learning, data visualization, and geospatial analytics.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in Agile product development is highly preferred.
• Familiarity with Scala, Java or C++ is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Actively contribute to the design of new and innovative data products for Commercial Insurance.
• Analyze and evaluate new data sources based on current and future business requirements.
• Facilitate and participate in user story and requirement elaboration sessions with business and technical stakeholders, identifying both upstream and downstream functional and non-functional requirements.
• Oversee the documentation and translation of business needs into compelling user stories with clear business requirements and technical specifications.
• Contribute to project management activities such as scoping, impact assessments and estimating project efforts, identifying risks and recommending mitigation measures, communicating activity status as well as escalating and communicating possible issues.
• Working with business and engineering team on test planning, test case creation, documentation, and review of test case results for data products.
• Working collaboratively with business stakeholders to ensure completeness of data documentation, monitoring of data integrity, and data governance.
• Keeping current on data and analytics tools and best practices and sharing experience and learnings with data consumers and colleagues.

Benefits

• Hybrid work schedule for most roles
• Company share ownership program
• Incentive Program - Eligible employees may participate in various incentive plans which are paid out at the discretion of the company and subject to individual and company performance.
• Pension and savings programs, with company-matched RRSP contributions
• Paid volunteer days and company matching on charitable donations
• Educational resources, tuition assistance, and paid time off to study for exams
• Focus on inclusion with employee groups, support for gender affirmation surgery, access to BIPOC counsellors, access to programs for working parents
• Wellness and recognition programs
• Discounts on products and services