BI Engineer (Senior)

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About the role

As a BI Engineer, you will design, build, and optimise data solutions that empower business choices. You’ll work with modern BI tools, transform complex data into clear insights, and collaborate with teams across the organisation—potentially within the insurance domain—to develop innovative analytics solutions that drive growth and efficiency.

We are looking for someone who can independently drive communication, build strong stakeholder relationships, and proactively suggest improvements and solutions within the project.

• Power BI: Advanced

• SQL: Advanced

• Azure: Regular

• Python: Regular

• Snowflake: Regular

• Databricks: Regular

• Data modeling: Regular

• Pyspark: Basic

• Visualization tool (Tableau or Qlik): Nice to have

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Project

Compass BI

Project scope 

Our client is a company that specialises in insurance, reinsurance, and asset management. It focuses on delivering scalable capital solutions that cater to various areas, including property, casualty, and speciality insurance lines. 

Currently in its startup phase, it is actively strategising to enhance its operations and expand its service capabilities. A key aspect of their plans involves the adoption of modern technologies, which will enable the company to streamline processes and increase overall efficiency in their offerings through improved management of data. By leveraging modern technology, our client aims to position itself as a competitive player in the insurance industry while also addressing the evolving needs of its clients.

As part of this transformation, Virtuslab (VL) will accelerate progress on its roadmap and in building a modern data platform with scalable compute capabilities, enhance reporting and workflow automation, and embed cloud-native engineering practices.

Tech stack

Azure, Databricks, SQL, Python, Power Bi 

Challenges

The project involves building a comprehensive reporting and analytics platform from the ground up. Key challenges include integrating data from multiple complex sources, ensuring high data quality and consistency, and designing scalable data models that support both operational and analytical reporting. It also requires close collaboration with business stakeholders to understand reporting needs and translate them into effective data solutions.

Team

The team is small but highly motivated, taking on a broad scope of responsibilities as the platform is built and expanded.

What we expect in general:

• 6 years hands on experience in a similar position

• Strong skills in designing interactive dashboards and translating business needs into actionable insights – Power BI

• Excellent command of writing complex queries, optimising performance,and managing large datasets – SQL

• Hands-on experience with Azure

• Experience in data processing, automation, and building scalable data pipelines with Pythonand PySpark

• Understanding of cloud data warehousing, lakehouse architecture concepts andperformance optimisation – Databricks, Snowflake

• Background in data modelling – understanding of various modelling approaches such as star schema and Data Vault, with the ability to design efficient and scalable models

• Ability to clearly explain technical concepts and collaborate effectively with business stakeholders

• Strong communication skills are essential for collaborating with stakeholders

• Knowledge of the insurance domain will be considered a decisive advantage

• Familiarity with visualisation tools, or other BI platforms, such as Tableau, Qlik, and ThoughtSpot,is an advantage

Seems like lots of expectations, huh? Don’t worry! You don’t have to meet all the requirements.What matters most is your passion and willingness to develop. Apply and find out!

A few perks of being with us

• Building tech community

• Flexible hybrid work model

• Home office reimbursement

• Language lessons

• MyBenefit points

• Private healthcare

• Training Package

• Virtusity / in-house training

• And a lot more!

Apply now