Lead BI Engineer

Lead BI Engineer

Union Assurance is a leading corporate and one of the fastest growing entities in the Life Insurance industry backed by the strength and stability of John Keells Holdings PLC, one of Sri Lanka's largest conglomerates. For the 9th consecutive year, the company has received the GPTW certification as a ‘Best Employer Brand,' and in 2020 was awarded the ‘Global Employer Brand’ by the World HRD Congress.

The Job Role:

The person will be responsible to draw on business analytics, data mining, data visualization, data tools, and best practices to help Union Assurance make more data-driven decisions.

Principle Accountabilities:

• Extract data-driven insights to arrive at better business decisions regarding policies, covers, premiums, and product risk management and business problems
• Gather business intelligence from a variety of sources, including company data, industry and field reports, public information, or purchased sources
• Use business intelligence data and tools to identify and monitor current and potential customers
• Enable spotting trends to alert decision-makers to make better decisions about investments, premiums, and other aspects of their business
• Identify markets for future product development and methods to improve sales of existing products by analyzing technology trends
• Summarize financial and economic data reports for review by executives, managers, clients, and stakeholders
• Draw data and insights for issues faced at an organization wide level
• Investigate and resolve BI related business issues that are raised by end users
• Compile business intelligence or trends to support actionable recommendations
• Collate data points and interact with the other teams to confirm the information while doing analysis
• Assist with execution, implementation, and development of solutions for business intelligence components
• Create a draft version of the data and suggest improvements
• Assist in developing the reporting data model
• Create reports using business intelligence and visualization software to improve business processes

Qualifications and Experience

• A Bachelor’s degree specialized in Information Technology.
• Full/ Part qualification in recognized professional institute will be an added advantage
• Minimum of 3 to 5 years of experience in the similar capacity.
• Sound knowledge in analytics, Python/R, and hand on experience in data visualization and power BI.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, deductive reasoning and should posses’ analytical skill as well.
• Strong adaptability, work under pressure and capacity to work in fast-paced environments.
• Ability to work independently and in a team-oriented environment.

The selected candidate for the above position will be entitled to an attractive remuneration package. Applicants who are interested are encouraged to apply on or before 19th September 2024.