Job Purpose
At Great Eastern, we are building Data and AI capabilities to activate the full value of our data. Reporting to Head of Data Platform and Engineering, this role is responsible for building and running enterprise data foundation from raw layer to insurance data store, and establishing standards and best practice at group level, with the focus of end-to-end data activation and the creation of Great Eastern data product and reusable assets.
The Job
- Own the technical strategic roadmap planning and execution for the Great Eastern Group Data Foundation (data lake, DWH) and Enterprise data stores. Collaborate with engineering teams, product managers, and data scientists to inform this roadmap.
- Establish data generation, collection, transformation best practices
- Design and develop enterprise data stores, unified data schemas and tables
- Scale our data pipelines, tools and data stores
- Own data engineering practices, raising the bar for the quality and speed of software delivery and operations.
- Set clear measurable goals for your data engineers.
- Foster a culture of continuous growth improvement through coaching, mentoring, feedback and clear measurable outcomes.
- Attract, develop and retain great engineers who are passionate about data engineering and serving internal and external users. Support their career growth and development.
- As part of the leadership team, work with key stakeholders to proactively shape the organisation’s culture and conduct environment that is aligned to the organization’s Core Values
- Champion culture and conduct behavioral expectations within the Department/Division
- Takes accountability in considering business and regulatory compliance risks and takes appropriate steps to mitigate the risks.
- Maintains awareness of industry trends on regulatory compliance, emerging threats and technologies in order to understand the risk and better safeguard the company.
- Highlights any potential concerns /risks and proactively shares best risk management practices.
Our Requirements
- 12+ years experience as a hands-on senior data engineering leader
- A track record of developing and leading data teams via mentorship and coaching diverse, multi-cultural engineers and engineering managers.
- Experience in query optimization, resource management, and data lake/warehouse performance
- Experience with data workflow/orchestration platforms (ex. Airflow, KubeFlow, Argo, Luigi)
- Experience with data streaming platforms (ex. Beam, Dataflow)
- Experience with distributed compute engines (ex. Presto, Spark, Flink) and modern Big-Data storage technologies (ex. Delta Lake, Iceberg, Hudi)
- Experience with data modelling
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (ex. Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Terraform)
- Business understanding and ability to manage a budget. Ability to identify, evaluate and convey the engineering and technology choices and trade offs.
- Bachelor’s degree, with a strong academic record, in Computer Science or Engineering, Masters preferred.
- Demonstrates alignment with the organisation’s core values through expected behaviours
- High level of integrity, takes accountability of work and good attitude over teamwork.
- Takes initiative to improve current state of things and adaptable to embrace new changes.
About Great Eastern
Established in 1908, Great Eastern places customers at the heart of everything we do. Our legacy extends beyond our products and services to our culture, which is defined by our core values and how we work. As champions of Integrity, Initiative and Involvement, our core values act as a compass, guiding and inspiring us to embrace the behaviours associated with each value, upholding our promise to our customers - to continue doing our best for them in a sustainable manner.
We work collaboratively with our stakeholders to look for candidates who exhibit or have the potential to embrace our core values and associated behaviours, as these are the key traits that we expect from our employees as they develop their careers with us.
We embrace inclusivity, giving all employees an equal opportunity to shine and play their role in exploring possibilities to deliver innovative insurance solutions.
Since 2018, Great Eastern has been a signatory to the United Nations (UN) Principles of Sustainable Insurance. Our sustainability approach around environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations play a key role in every business decision we make. We are committed to being a sustainability-driven company to achieve a low-carbon economy by managing the environmental footprint of our operations and incorporating ESG considerations in our investment portfolios; improving people’s lives by actively helping customers live healthier, better and longer; and drive responsible business practices through material ESG risk management.
To all recruitment agencies: Great Eastern does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our email or our employees. We will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
