Data Engineer

Location: Greater London

** Job Title
** Data Engineer
**** Job Description
**** Data is at the core of Underwrite Me’s business, powering customer-facing SaaS insight capabilities, internal decision-making, and strengthening our parent company PL Re’s relationship with customers.

As a Data Engineer, you’ll play a key role in evolving our already advanced data technology stack (Snowflake, dbt, etc.) to one that’s industry leading.

You will work in a fast-paced environment alongside product, analytics, and engineering teams, contributing to the development of products and datasets to be used by our AI, analytics and products directly.
** What you’ll be doing
*** Design, develop and support key data pipelines, products and services that power analytics, AI, and customer-facing features
* Work with key business domains to understand their requirements; extracting and modelling data to match these requirements
* Draw upon broader industry techniques to data management and implement them proactively
* Design, implement and optimise large scale data management solutions, balancing cost and efficiency
* Monitor and troubleshoot performance or data quality issues; ensuring well modelled data that consistently achieves data quality benchmarks
* Communicate technical concepts and designs to non-technical stakeholders
** What type of person fits the role
*** You’ll be highly self-motivated, able to absorb new ideas or concepts quickly, and apply these to the betterment of the team – seeking opportunities for the team, rather than waiting to be asked.
* You’ll have a passion for the data and AI industry as a whole – keen to apply tools or techniques you’ve come across into workable solutions.
* You’ll be a skilled problem-solver and troubleshooter, capable of diagnosing complex data issues quickly and effectively
* You take ownership of your work end-to-end and care deeply about data quality, reliability, and the impact of what you build
* You seek out feedback from your team, peers, and stakeholders, and act on it thoughtfully. You show humility, admit when you’re wrong, learn from mistakes, and create an environment where others feel safe to do the same.
** Technical Requirements
*** Experience with Data Ops methods and data quality improvement techniques
* Experience with agile methodologies and continuous delivery
* Experience with continuous integration pipelines and technologies
* Experience with Dev Ops concepts and tooling (Terraform, Kubernetes etc.)
* Proficiency with cloud services (ideally AWS)
* Proficiency with data modelling tools and techniques (dbt)
* Experience or proven interest with large scale data processing (Spark, Hadoop, Pig etc.)
* Proficiency with structured or custom ETL/ELT management (Airflow, Dagster, etc.)
* Experience or proven interest in AI/MLOps technologies
* Proficiency with SQL databases (Relational, Snowflake, etc.)
* Excellent communication skills
** About Underwrite Me
** Underwrite Me is an Insurtech software business and subsidiary of Pacific Life Re (PL Re), a global life and pensions reinsurance firm. We have a vision to help everyone purchase protection insurance by using data and disruptive technology to transform our partners and markets in order to make their underwriting processes as quick and efficient as possible.

Our core products are:  
• Decision Platform - a B2B enterprise platform that provides a best-in-market Underwriting Rules Engine used by over 30 insurers to power their underwriting decisions. The product is sold across UK & Ireland, Asia-Pacific and North America. The platform combines our engine with technology to source and process third-party information supporting underwriting decisions for insurers. We are already working on capabilities, powered by AI, to make these decisions even more efficient.

• Protection Platform - a B2B2C marketplace used by over 15,000 advisors to power quoting and purchase of protection products in the UK. We currently deliver 16% of the UK markets protection policies and we are already working to increase our reach.
**** Working for Underwrite Me
**** Joining Underwrite Me means being part of a technology company that is committed to bringing a fresh and dynamic…