DATA ARCHITECT DEVELOPER

DATA ARCHITECT DEVELOPER (Port Chester)

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Address:Port Chester, NY 10573 (map)
Date Posted:05/25/13
Job Type:Contract
Description:
This role reports to the IT Strategic Information Architect with strong working relationships to Applications Development in the London, Rye Brook, NY and San Francisco Offices. The position is located in Rye Brook office.

Position Summary / Primary Duty:
IT department seeks an experienced Management Information professional to further the design and development of repositories and reporting to support its strategic MI initiative. The role will involve gaining a comprehensive understanding of our current transactional systems and the data held therein and involvement in the ongoing development of warehouse technology to enable the provision of data to support key strategic global information initiatives such as Claims Metrics and Global Underwriting Profitability reporting and analytics. Key to all these initiatives will be the transformation and consolidation of data from disparate US and UK systems into a common model. Design and development approach will be established and guided by the MI Technical Lead.

Functional Responsibility (most critical responsibilities in bold):

Work with Management Information Technical Lead in the design and development of data warehouse / data marts suitable to meet the data requirements of business departments within (underwriting, actuarial, finance, claims etc) keeping scalability, performance and extensibility in mind.
Mapping of data sources, data movement and reconciliation with the dual goals of ensuring data quality & consistency and ability to satisfy relevant business requirements.
Develop data transformation and data movement components of Global Data Warehouse, using approach and architecture defined by MI Technical Lead.
Understanding of current Navigators US and European data sources and reporting / MI capabilities.
Collaboration with Business Analysis and business stakeholders to ensure a thorough understanding of strategic data requirements.
Data analysis / data profiling to understand gaps, inconsistencies and other quality issues in existing source system data, and develop data sourcing solutions.
Collaboration with Business Analysis and IT development staff in US and UK to foster their complete understanding of the universe of data.
Identify data gaps, inconsistency and quality issues and collaborate with stakeholders to identify, document and implement corrections / business rules / work-arounds.
Comprehensive documentation of all developed software & repositories.
Proactively propose and prototype new ideas / approaches.
Design and develop presentation vehicles including reports, queries and analytics as specified.
Participate in evaluation and selection of 3rd party BI and DW tools as required.

Knowledge and Experience:
Experience of working in IT organization of Property / Casualty insurer – desireable
Experience in development and implementation of data warehouse / mart solutions for large, complex datasets using ETL tools – essential
Experience in implementation of controls and reconciliation reports - essential
Experience in reporting toolsets, OLAP tools, job scheduling, publishing and distribution of reports – essential
Experience with multi-location, global team -- desirable

Skills and Knowledge:
T-SQL development including the use of views, stored procedures and indexing techniques -- essential
SQL Server database (versions 2000, 2005, 2008) -- essential
SQL Server Integration Services -- essential
Knowledge of property/casualty insurance in US and/or Lloyd’s/London Markets -- desireable
Experience with Subscribe and/or Genius insurance systems -- desirable

Minimum Education: Degree level or equivalent

Special Requirements of the Position (certifications, designations, etc.): None

Characteristics of the successful candidate:
Pragmatic and collaborative approach to problem solving
Self starter, able to manage own workload and juggle tasks appropriately
Proactive with suggestions for improvements; thinks laterally; receptive to new ideas
Takes ownership of a piece of work and sees it through to completion

Ad ID: 24944592

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