Data Management Specialist

1 month ago

Guildford, United Kingdom Allianz UK Full time

**About the Role**

Are you looking to progress your career with Data? If you are passionate about data this may be a role just for you.

The purpose of this role is to work within Data Value Management (DVM) Team order to effectively drive the key data capabilities to our business customers: Data Management, Data Quality, Master and Reference Data Management. You will be a seasoned data professional with technical mind and have an appreciation for business, as well as an excellent communicator with strong stakeholder management skills in order to gain greater insight of their data requirements and effectively drive Allianz UK Data Strategy.

As Allianz we’re one of the largest general insurers in the UK, which means we have lots of IT and data legacy to work with, but we are on a transformation journey harnessing Cloud capabilities and cutting edge data software. This is an incredible opportunity to create value, using the array of data management, quality and analysis tools available to us, our vast pool of data and deep industry expertise.

**Key responsibilities**
- Lead and perform analysis and develop foundational data management products to deliver a comprehensive end to end business offering (Metadata Management, MDM/RDM/Data Quality, etc).
- Support configuration of new resource connection onto Enterprise Data Caralogue (EDC) enabling harvesting of technical metadata, use and set up of custom resources and custom data lineage
- Support the definition and implementation of data management concepts, frameworks and associated best practices.
- Create or enhance processes and standards, continuing to improve the organisation data maturity both within the data depts and business areas.
- Drive adoption of Data Ownership framework and Data Asset Cataloguing in Allianz UK
- Support the delivery of our data management strategy enabling data products that will help hundreds of staff in supporting our customers, and influence our business strategy.
- Drive a better understanding of the value of data with stakeholders and users and contribute to improvements in data management, quality and governance.
- Maintain relationship with our business customers, in order help to identify improvement opportunities by understanding specific business area’s value drivers and help recommend value-driven solutions to key stakeholders.
- Build relationships and collaborate with stakeholders around the business in helping to create data driven solutions to business problems.
- Deliver hands on analysis of datasets through data profiling and cleansing tools.
- Trouble shooting hurdles limiting the business adoption of data processes and tools.
- Work autonomously and within a highly skilled team to deliver both business process and technology enabled business change.

**Skills and experience**
- Knowledgeable and experienced in more than one area of area of data management (Metadata, MDM/RDM, Modelling, etc) with an enthusiasm to learn about others
- Prior use of the Informatica governance toolset (i.e AXON & EDC) would be highly desirable although full training will be provided
- Experience with IBM IIS (InfoSphere Information Toolset) including RDM and MDM Modules
- Aware of how important KPIs are for monitoring business outputs and project implementations with some familiarity of BI software(i.e. Cognos, MicroStrategy, etc)
- Technically competent with data components yet able to explain complex concepts to non-technical audiences.
- Practical experience of data manipulation and analysis
- Experience of a programming language (SQL, Python, C, etc) and Azure products would be beneficial.
- Experienced in digesting data strategies and best practices and feeling sufficiently qualified to implement their themes in new or uplifted processes and standards.
- Understanding of external data enrichment for commercial organisations
- Experience working in an Agile project environment or managing large items of work
- ideally in the context of data
- Experience in presenting and stakeholder management
- An interest in developing new skills
- Great communication skills, team player, self-starter
- Organised, demonstrated strong work ethic, results driven and able to hit deadline
- Adaptable to working in an agile environment
- Able to juggle multiple projects and stakeholders
- An inquisitive mind to join data and business value across a complex landscape
- Comfortable balancing day to day operational priority data activities alongside project commitments

**Our Benefits**

Recognised and rewarded for a job well done, we have a range of flexible benefits for you to choose from - including: retail discounts and discounted insurance cover - so you can pick a package that’s perfect for you. That’s on top of enjoying all the benefits you’d expect from the world’s number one insurance brand, including:

- 30 Days holiday & 1 addition for birthday plus bank holidays
- Competitive Annual Salary
- Enhanced maternity and paternity

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