Analytics Engineer

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Analytics Engineer

Lead Analytics Engineer

York

You’ll work in a team of analytics specialists with expertise across data visualisation, analytics platforms and data engineering, within the wider Group Data Engineering team. We are united by a common goal: enabling the delivery of data-driven insights for business stakeholders. The Technology organisation comprises a Corporate Centre team and five business-aligned Technology teams that partner with our federated businesses. Our retail technology teams support the UK, Europe and US business units, while our 'big ticket' technology teams partner with the London Market and Re & ILS businesses.

Corporate Centre consists of Group & Enterprise Services, IT Services and Information Security. Each team is led by a Technology Director who reports to the CIO. Collectively, the Technology organisation aims to put technology at the heart of the business.

The Analytics Engineer designs and maintains trusted, reusable and well-governed analytical assets that provide high-quality information for reporting, analysis and decision-making. You’ll collaborate with business stakeholders and technical colleagues to translate business problems into data-driven solutions. You’ll take ownership of projects from discovery through to production support, putting your ideas and skills into practice. You’ll join a dynamic and rapidly expanding data community with access to leading technologies and exciting opportunities for development within Hiscox.

• Design, build and maintain reusable analytical data models and curated datasets, using dimensional and other appropriate modelling techniques.
• Design and build data pipelines, reports and dashboards that deliver reliable, decision-ready information.
• Work with stakeholders to define and maintain governed business metrics and semantic models, ensuring consistent definitions across reports and analytical products.
• Ensure analytical data products remain accurate, complete and reliable.
• Use Git and CI/CD to develop, test and deploy analytics code through controlled environments.
• Maintain clear documentation, ownership, metadata, business definitions, lineage and access controls for analytical data products.
• Optimise data models, transformations and queries for performance, scalability and cost efficiency.
• Build strong, productive relationships with business stakeholders, IT teams and external third parties to deliver effective solutions based on a deep understanding of business and technology needs.
• Proactively engage stakeholders to elicit and document requirements, including user stories, acceptance criteria, functional and non-functional specifications, and business cases.
• Identify potential solutions and assess their technical and business suitability.
• Act as an internal consultant, owning the design, build and delivery of impactful dashboards, visualisations and reports.
• Promote analytics best practice across the Group.
• Document key activities, data assets and operational processes.
• Support the administration, security and maintenance of analytics solutions.
• Provide BAU support to the business, including training and mentoring colleagues.

• 5+ years' experience in a business intelligence, data engineering, data analysis or data visualisation role.
• Significant expertise with modern analytics and BI platforms, ideally Power BI or Fabric. Also Tableau, Qlik or Looker.
• Significant expertise with cloud data platforms, ideally Microsoft Fabric, Databricks or Google Cloud Platform.
• Advanced T-SQL skills.
• Experience with Python.
• Experience using Git-based development workflows, including…