Data Developer

Join us in shaping the future of the insurance industry, driven by innovation and a 150-year legacy of protecting people

Be part of a team that invests in your growth, offering exclusive industry accreditation and a variety of learning experiences

Work with experienced and skilled colleagues who support and inspire one another to achieve collective success

Welcome to TAL. As a leading life insurer, we’ve been protecting Australians for over 150 years. Backed by Daiichi Life, we're driven by big ambitions and empower to create better products and services.

Together with our Partners, we’re helping millions of Australians live a life filled with choices, options, and freedoms. See the direct impact you make delivering support and financial security with care and expertise. Grow beyond expectations with diverse roles, global connections, and exclusive learning opportunities. Work with passionate, bright and capable colleagues. Feel inspired by supportive leaders. Collaborate with heart, where flexibility, wellbeing and inclusivity is valued.

Together, we're reimagining insurance. So, bring a curious mind and an ambition to help us become the progressive, digitally enabled leading insurer.

NOTE:

This is a fixed term contract until 30th April 2027.

This role sits within the Actuarial Systems team and is responsible for maintaining, enhancing, and developing actuarial data systems that support liability and capital valuations, embedded value reporting, and business planning activities. The role provides technical leadership and guidance to the Actuarial Systems team across the design, development, testing, and implementation of data systems and processes, primarily integrated with the Prophet Enterprise platform.

Working as part of TAL’s broader Actuarial Systems function, the position contributes to a portfolio of business initiatives, model enhancements, and strategic projects, including AASB 17 implementation and the integration of TAL and Asteron Life operations. Development activities are predominantly undertaken using Microsoft SQL Server technologies.

• Deliver structured data to business stakeholders plus internal applications and systems such as FIS’s Prophet Enterprise calculation engine, TAL data marts / data warehouses (SQL, Azure), reporting tools and People Soft general ledger.
• Analyse and specify data requirements for iDR (insurance data repository)
• Prepare end to end solution to meet end user requirements
• Develop to specifications using iDR toolkit, which consists of MS SQL Server and scripting Tools (Power Shell & Cmd).
• Perform and document system testing activities (unit testing, end to end testing, etc.)
• Design and build SQL data steps on the platform to be leveraged by Finance and Actuarial end users in automated data transformation processes.
• Work with the Platform Architect to ensure governance and design standards are adhered to across initiatives.
• Strong SQL knowledge and development experience
• Experience with design and developing data reconciliation & metadata driven data processing frameworks
• Cleansing, manipulating or joining large volumes of data to facilitate analytics
• Experience in building real time or batch ingestion and transformation pipelines.
• Experience working in the Financial Service Industry
• Desirable:
  
  SQL Database design experience
• Broad knowledge of application development tools, techniques and languages including C#, ASP.NET, T-SQL, IIS, Bootstrap, JQuery, Azure Dev Ops, GIT,
• Python, R, XML, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
• Reporting layer development experience, setting up base analytics packs / dashboards in visualisation packages for use and tailoring by clients
• Experience with Atlassian software workflow and documentation tools – JIRA and Confluence
• Exposure…