Senior Analytics Engineer

Markel; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Pension scheme (up to 16%)

Private medical and dental

Life assurance

Electric car scheme

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Flexible working patterns

Job summary

Markel International is seeking a Senior Analytics Engineer to enhance underwriting and claims capabilities through data-driven decision making. You will deliver insights, analytical solutions and operational improvements across London Market and Asia Pacific divisions.

Responsibilities include designing automated reporting, developing dashboards, data models, and Databricks pipelines, while promoting governance and scalable analytics practices across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering BI and analytics that drive decision-making.
• Strong Power BI development, modeling and performance optimisation.
• Expert SQL skills for complex data transformations and warehousing.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and deliver analytics solutions as a senior team member.
• Implement automated reporting promoting data-led decision making.
• Evaluate Genie AI capabilities and govern outputs with business use cases.
• Identify self-service insights to reduce manual reporting effort.
• Partner with underwriting, claims and operations to drive insights.
• Lead Power BI dashboards, data models and semantic layers.
• Develop data models, SQL views and conform datasets.
• Contribute to migration to the Data Analytics Cloud Platform.
• Maintain and optimise Databricks notebooks and data pipelines.
• Collaborate with Data Platforming to shape the data platform roadmap.

Skills

Power BI development

DAX

Power Query

Semantic modelling

Dashboard design

SQL

Data platforms (Databricks)

Python

Automation

Stakeholder engagement

Communication

Tools

Databricks

Data Lake

Azure

Job description

The Senior Analytics Engineer will work to improve and enhance underwriting and claims capabilities through data-driven decision making, delivering insights, analytical solutions and operational improvements across Markel International's London Market and Asia Pacific divisions.

Activities include, but are not limited to, data analysis, process automation, development of data tools and analytical solutions, and the creation of dashboards, reports and visualisations.

We're all about people | We win together | We strive for better | We enjoy the everyday | We think further

Who we are:

Business Unit overview:

The International Portfolio Analytics (IPA) team is a dynamic, multi-functional group that operates with creativity, autonomy, and empowerment. Embedded within the underwriting business and represented in senior leadership forums, the team supports the London Market & Asia Pacific divisions within Markel International. Our core focus spans four critical areas:

• Portfolio Management
• Pricing Transformation
• Advanced Analytics
• Catastrophe & Exposure Management

This role sits within the Data Analytics & Insights team, part of Portfolio Management, which is responsible for delivering valuable insights, solutions, services, and operational improvements across the divisions through the effective use of data and analytics.

The team is supported by a dedicated Data Platforming function that provides its technical engineering expertise and, under an established operating model agreed with IT, is accountable for provisioning and running the cloud services the analytics work depends on. This gives IPA the ability to build and deploy solutions at the pace the underwriting business needs, while remaining within Markel's architecture, security and governance standards.

Part of Markel Group (NYSE - MKL) a Fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory, and investment operations around the world.

What you'll be doing:

• Design, develop and deliver of business analytics solutions, acting as a senior member of the Data, Analytics and Insights (DAI) capability within IPA.
• Design and the implementation of automated reporting and analytics solutions, promoting good practice and driving the adoption of data-led decision making across the business.
• Handle the evaluation, testing and adoption of Genie AI / AI-BI capabilities, working with collaborators to validate outputs, establish governance standards and identify high-value business use cases.
• Help identify Genie AI use cases that could improve self-service insight, reduce manual reporting effort or make complex data easier for business users to explore.
• Partner with business colleagues to find opportunities for enhanced insight, supporting underwriting, claims and operational decision making through sophisticated analytics and reporting solutions.
• Lead the development, enhancement and governance of Power BI dashboards and reporting assets, ensuring alignment with team standards, scalability requirements and guidelines.
• Design, develop and optimise data models, SQL views, semantic layers and conformed datasets that underpin reporting, analytics and self-service data capabilities.
• Contribute to the migration of existing data processes to the new Data Analytics Cloud Platform, building knowledge of Data Lake, Databricks, Unity Catalog and related cloud services.
• Develop, maintain and optimise Databricks notebooks, SQL processes, data pipelines and transformation logic, ensuring solutions are scalable, performant and well documented.
• Work with the Data Platforming team to shape the data platform roadmap and ensure the tooling, pipelines and cloud services required by the analytics and pricing agenda are delivered.

Key Skills:

• Significant experience delivering business intelligence, analytics and reporting solutions that drive business decision-making.
• Strong Power BI development skills, including DAX, Power Query (M Language), semantic modelling, dashboard design and performance optimisation. Experience with Kimball methodology and data warehousing principles is advantageous.
• Strong SQL and database development skills, with experience transforming, modelling and optimising large and sophisticated datasets.
• Experience working with modern cloud data platforms such as Databricks, Data Lake, and related Azure services. Python experience is beneficial.
• Experience of automating processes, improving efficiency and implementing scalable analytics solutions.
• Experience owning and supporting enterprise reporting environments, ensuring reporting remains accurate, performant and aligned to business needs.
• Ability to engage, influence and challenge stakeholders, translating business requirements into practical data and analytics solutions.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to handle multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

What’s in it for you:

• A great starting salary plus annual bonus & strong benefits package…
• Up to 16% company pension scheme,
• Private medical and dental cover, Menopause plan, emergency care benefit (children/Pets/dependants)
• Income protection, Life assurance, electric car scheme, travel insurance
• 25 days paid holiday plus Bank Holidays, with the opportunity to buy/sell extra leave
• As well as other great benefits on offer there are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career!

Are you ready to play your part:

If you're looking for a place where you can make a meaningful difference, you'll find your fit amongst our diverse global community of optimists and problem-solvers. We're always pushing each other to think further because we believe that when we strive for better and realise our potential, we can help others reach theirs.

At Markel we are all about the people, celebrating the value of a diverse workforce that brings experience and expertise from a wide variety of backgrounds and life circumstances. Whatever your background, if you feel you meet the requirements of this role then we want to hear from you. We are also happy to consider candidates who are looking for flexible working patterns.

We'll ensure that individuals are provided with any reasonable accommodations to be able to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions if successful. Please contact us via email at [e-mail] or call us at 0161 507 5827 to request any accommodations or adjustments that may be needed, including alternative formats of documents or information on how to apply offline.