Data Specialist

1 day ago


Manchester, United Kingdom Munich Re Specialty Group Full time
Job Title: Technical Data Specialist

About the Role

Munich Re Specialty Group is seeking a highly skilled Technical Data Specialist to join our team. As a key member of our Data Solutions organization, you will play a critical role in supporting the mission-critical databases that enable our business to operate efficiently.

Key Responsibilities

  • Ensure the operational uptime of databases used by the Bell & Clements Group.
  • Collaborate with data solution architects to design architecture solutions that align with long-term business objectives.
  • Develop data management projects that drive business growth and improve data quality.
  • Support the design of data infrastructure that enables complex data analytics services.
  • Provide technical leadership and direction on data infrastructure architecture for the Software Engineering and Data Analytics teams.
  • Work with the Software Engineering and Data Analytics teams to analyze, identify, design, and implement processes that improve data management.
  • Build effective relationships with senior technical staff to ensure a common understanding of goals and challenges.
  • Meet with clients, peers, data solution architects, or executive team members to engage in architectural and requirement analysis discussions.
  • Create documentation that captures key data entities and creates an inventory of data needed to implement solutions.
  • Translate business requirements into databases, data warehouses, and data streams.
  • Analyze, plan, and define data architecture framework, including security, reference data, metadata, and master data.
  • Help maintain the integrity and security of the company's database.
  • Partner with technical peers to provide technical thought leadership on high-level architecture and design, data modeling, data strategy, and adoption for ingestion and analytics applications within the insurance domain.
  • Define technical principles, vision, and standards in partnership with peers.
  • Ensure the design can scale to handle additional data demands.
  • Ensure key performance indicators of applications are baselined with respect to data loads and continuously monitored. Devise performance improvement plans working with the Software Engineering, Data Analytics, and Infrastructure teams.
  • Audit support and enforce GDPR compliance as needed.
  • Work independently to configure and maintain database servers and processes. Monitor system health and ensure high levels of performance are maintained optimally 24/7 securely.
  • Manage and deliver migrations to the cloud environment using Microsoft Azure to agreed timescales.
  • Lead the DataOps function to ensure robust deployment pipelines and gates are in place before any database codebase is released into production. Manage manual deployments of database changes into UAT and Production until automated solutions are deployed.
  • Participate in software engineering, data analytics, architectural, development operations, and systems support projects as needed.
  • Work with the Software Engineering and Data Analyst teams to provide database architecture guidance to ensure new solutions are designed correctly from the ground up and any legacy designs are re-engineered for optimal performance.
  • Patch the database environments on the 3rd Sunday of every month, managing this remotely.
  • User/Role management across databases.

About Us

Munich Re Specialty Group is a leading provider of specialty insurance solutions. We are committed to delivering innovative and effective solutions to our clients. Our team is passionate about data and technology, and we are seeking a talented Technical Data Specialist to join our team.

What We Offer

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, as well as opportunities for professional growth and development. If you are a motivated and experienced Technical Data Specialist looking for a new challenge, we encourage you to apply.


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