Manager - Snowflake, Speciality Insurance, AI & Data, FS

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London / Edinburgh (London is the preferred location for this role, Edinburgh base is also possible)

Our mission is to deliver AI‑ready Data enabling our Financial Services clients to deliver superior market products and experiences. We are currently looking for exceptional Managers with strong Snowflake experience in Financial Services and Data Platform solutions to join our team and actively contribute to this mission, locally and globally. Joining the EY AI & Data team in this exciting period of growth will offer a huge variety of opportunity to make a tangible impact to our clients’ businesses and to your career.

• Manage a delivery team on Financial Services Data Platform transformation programmes. A typical programme can include roles such as target state architecture scoping, data analysis, solution design, and end‑to‑end implementation management. As a Manager, you can expect significant people leadership responsibilities and will face off to senior members of client teams.
• Business development; including the development of long‑term trusted advisor relationships with our clients and Data Platform vendors. You will support RFP responses as well as thought leadership articles that we issue to the market.
• Develop our people through coaching, talent development, recruitment and formal performance management.
• Ensure internal risk and admin processes are adhered to.
• Support the development of new EY data solutions and methods that will improve effectiveness and reduce costs of current practices.
• Proven experience in building data engineering solutions focused on data quality, ingestion, transformation, data modeling, data governance, and regulatory compliance.
• Domain experience in the UK insurance market, experience working with speciality insurance would be advantageous.

We’re looking for people with a passion for the delivery of data platform solutions that deliver positive outcomes for customers, regulators and shareholders. You should have leadership, problem‑solving and teamwork skills, and an ability to communicate complex ideas effectively, both verbally and in writing.

• Demonstratable interest and awareness in data, AI & emerging technologies
• Ability to demonstrate strong leadership, problem‑solving, teamwork and communication skills, and an ability to communicate ideas effectively and clearly both verbally and in writing to a diverse set of business and technical stakeholder groups
• 5+ years of FS experience
• Relevant experience in Data Platform Technologies, including
• Understanding of Snowflake architecture, including basic data warehousing concepts and data sharing capabilities
• Experience using native functionality to deploy and interact with Large Language Models
• The ability to write SQL and/or Python queries for the purposes of transforming, joining and aggregating data
• Ability to analyse datasets and generate insights using Snowflake features
• Practical knowledge of common data engineering and BI/data visualisation integrations such as dbt, Azure Data Factory, Power
  
  BI and Sigma
• Experience of Agile and traditional SDLC delivery methodologies
• A point of view on how the FS industry will continue to evolve and how the technology, innovation and Fin Tech landscape will shape the future
• Experience creating new AI & Data propositions / assets / solutions and launching these to the market
• Previous consulting experience would be a plus, but so would the curiosity and ambition to develop your career with a consulting role
• Certifications such as Snow Pro Associate and Snow Pro Core would be advantageous but not essential and EY will invest in the right candidate to support their professional development

We are looking for highly motivated individuals who are passionate about AI and Data and want to…