Cloud Data & Analytics Implementation Senior Associate (Financial Services-Insurance)

Specialty/Competency: Data, Analytics & AI

Industry/Sector: Insurance

Time Type: Full time

Travel Requirements: Up to 80%

A career within Data and Analytics services will provide you with the opportunity to help organisations uncover enterprise insights and drive business results using smarter data analytics. We focus on a collection of organisational technology capabilities, including business intelligence, data management, and data assurance that help our clients drive innovation, growth, and change within their organisations in order to keep up with the changing nature of customers and technology. We make impactful decisions by mixing mind and machine to leverage data, understand and navigate risk, and help our clients gain a competitive edge.

You’ll focus on aligning client data strategies to their business strategy. You will assist clients in choosing a platform, defining their data needs and migrating them to a modern cloud data environment using cloud providers such as Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, Snowflake, Databricks or Teradata.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As a Senior Associate, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

Use feedback and reflection to develop self awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.

Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results.

Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.

Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends.

Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.

Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.

Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.

Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.

Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.

Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Job Requirements and Preferences:

Basic Qualifications:

Minimum Degree Required:

Bachelor Degree

Minimum Years of Experience:

4 year(s)

Preferred Qualifications:

Certification(s) Preferred:

Certification in one of the following cloud platform - AWS/Azure/GCP

Certification in Snowflake

Certification in any ETL/ELT tool

Preferred Knowledge/Skills:

Demonstrates thorough knowledge and success as both team leader and member roles within a professional services firm or large enterprise.

Understanding and experience with modern cloud data architectures and engineering for one or more of the following cloud providers - AWS, Azure, GCP;

Implementing cloud data architecture and data integration patterns for one or more of the cloud providers (AWS Glue, Azure Data Factory, Event Hub, Databricks,Snowflake etc.), storage and processing (Redshift, Azure Synapse, BigQuery, Snowflake); Infrastructure as code (CloudFormation, Terraform);

Understanding and thorough knowledge of Data Warehousing concepts (normalization, OLAP, OLTP, Vault data model, graphs, star & snowflake schemas);

Applying knowledge and relevant work experience in Big data engineering (Hadoop, Spark, Scala, Kafka) and ETL pipeline development tools (tools: IICS/AWS Glue/Matillion/Abinitio SSIS/SnapLogic); preferable in P&C/L&A Insurance data warehouse;

Developing file and object-based storage solutions using Azure ADLS 2.0 or AWS S3;

Applying knowledge in SQL, report generation using visualization tools such as Tableau/Power BI/Cognos

Programming using Python/Spark

Understanding of enterprise data concepts such as Master Data Management Data Governance and Enterprise Data Warehouse;

Support cross-functional teams to understand their workflow and automation needs.

Design and develop scalable data warehouse solutions that meet the organization’s data storage, retrieval, and analysis requirements.

Understanding and familiarity of one or more is a big plus - CI/CD, cloud devops, containers (kubernetes/Docker, etc.);

Understanding of insurance data, underlying KPIs and how they are used; and,

Demonstrating prior P&C/L&A Insurance industry experience.

Demonstrates thorough abilities success with managing the identification and addressing of client needs:

Applying modern, cloud-based technology skills, ability to research emerging trends, analyst publications, and adoption of modern technologies in solution architectures;

Contributing as a team member by understanding personal and team roles, contributing to a positive working environment by building proven relationships with team members, proactively seeking guidance, clarification and feedback; and,

Prioritizing and handling multiple tasks, researching and analyzing pertinent client, industry and technical matters, utilizing problem-solving skills, and communicating effectively in written and verbal formats to various audiences (including various levels of management and external clients) in a professional business environment.

Learn more about how we work: https://pwc.to/how-we-work

PwC does not intend to hire experienced or entry level job seekers who will need, now or in the future, PwC sponsorship through the H-1B lottery, except as set forth within the following policy: https://pwc.to/H-1B-Lottery-Policy.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment at PwC without regard to race; creed; color; religion; national origin; sex; age; disability; sexual orientation; gender identity or expression; genetic predisposition or carrier status; veteran, marital, or citizenship status; or any other status protected by law. PwC is proud to be an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer.

For positions based in San Francisco, consideration of qualified candidates with arrest and conviction records will be in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled or the posting is removed, unless otherwise set forth on the following webpage. Please visit this link for information about anticipated application deadlines: https://pwc.to/us-application-deadlines

The salary range for this position is: $84,000 - $202,000, plus individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. For roles that are based in Maryland, this is the listed salary range for this position. Actual compensation within the range will be dependent upon the individual's skills, experience, qualifications and location, and applicable employment laws. PwC offers a wide range of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, 401k, holiday pay, vacation and more. To view our benefits at a glance, please visit the following link: https://pwc.to/benefits-at-a-glance