Lead Data Engineer
Policy Expert – Lead Data Engineer
🚀 We’re on a mission to make: The most successful insurance disruptor people want to stay with for life
Are you ready to transform the insurance industry with innovative technology? At Policy Expert, we are on a mission to revolutionize Home, Pet, and Motor insurance, making it clear, fair, and great value for customers. Since our inception in 2011, our breakthrough thinking and proprietary tech, have won us over 1.5 million customers and the title of the UK’s No.1-rated home insurance provider for 9 years. 🏆
Hear from our team about what it's like working at Policy Expert ✨
Your day to day:
As the Lead Data Engineer, your mission is to drive the technical development and evolution of a scalable, modern data platform that empowers distributed data product teams to improve the quality of our data through clear ownership of domain aligned data products.
- Data Platform Excellence: Lead the development and operation of a reliable data platform in production environments, enabling self-service capabilities for de-centralised data product teams, ensuring the right level of scalability, reliability, and trust in their data products.
- Tech Leadership and Mentorship: Working alongside the Engineering Manager - provide technical leadership to Senior Data Engineers within the team, fostering a culture of collaboration, feedback, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement, ensuring technical excellence across the team.
- Pricing Optimisation: Work closely with data engineers, pricing analysts, data scientists and ML engineers to ensure the data platform provides the right capabilities to maintain our competitive advantage by innovating and building out a more advanced pricing optimisation market model to support our growth targets over the next 3-5 years.
Who are you:
- Proven experience leading Senior Data Engineers, setting technical standards, and promoting a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
- Expertise in designing and developing scalable data platforms, with experience in batch/streaming data processing (AWS Glue, Apache Spark, Flink) and data storage solutions (Amazon Redshift, S3, DynamoDB).
- Strong understanding of event-driven architectures (SNS/SQS, Kinesis) and experience with orchestration tools like GitHub Actions and CloudFormation
- Conceptual understanding of Data Products as governed, discoverable assets, and how to build them to support business insights and decision-making.
- Proficiency in Python and SQL for querying large datasets and writing optimised, efficient code.
- Ability to translate technical concepts into business-friendly language, effectively communicating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Not essential but desirable
- Experience deploying ML models in production environments, particularly with AWS SageMaker or similar tools.
- Familiarity with data challenges in the insurance industry, though not essential
Benefits:
📍 This role will be based in our London office in a 50/50 Hybrid mode.
💸 Generous Pension contribution scheme
🏥 Private medical & Dental cover
📚 Learning budget of £1,000 a year + Study leave (with encouragement to use it)
😁 Enhanced maternity & paternity
🚉 Travel season ticket loan
🎟️ Access to a wide selection of London O2 events and use of a Private Lounge
🌈 Employee Wellbeing Programme
What We Stand for and Next Steps “We pride ourselves on being an equal opportunity employer. We treat all applications equally and recruit based solely on an individual’s skills, knowledge, and experience. The quality and growing diversity of our team is a testament to this commitment”
At Policy Expert, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive environment for all candidates. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the interview process to accommodate your needs, please do not hesitate to let us know. We are dedicated to ensuring every candidate has an equal opportunity to succeed and will work with you to provide the necessary support.
We aim to be in touch within 14 working days of your application – you will be notified if successful or unsuccessful. Please be encouraged to apply even if you do not meet all the requirements.
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At Policy Expert, we're on the hunt for a passionate Lead Data Engineer to join our dynamic team in London! If you're eager to make a significant impact in the insurance industry using innovative technology, this is your chance. With over 1.5 million customers and counting, we pride ourselves on being the UK's No.1-rated home insurance provider for an impressive 9 years. As our Lead Data Engineer, you'll spearhead the development of a cutting-edge data platform, empowering our distributed teams to elevate the quality of their data products. Your journey with us will involve collaborating closely with pricing analysts, data scientists, and machine learning engineers to further refine our pricing optimization model. You'll also play a vital role in guiding our talented team of Senior Data Engineers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and knowledge sharing. With your expertise in building scalable platforms using technologies like AWS Glue, Apache Spark, and Redshift, you’ll ensure our data remains reliable and trustworthy. We value your ability to communicate technical concepts in a business-friendly way, bridging the gap between tech and non-tech stakeholders alike. Join us at Policy Expert, and let's transform how people perceive home, pet, and motor insurance together!
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