Senior Data Engineer – Azure Databricks & Power BI

Munich Re Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Munich Re Group is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join the Great Lakes Data & BI team in London. You will design, build and maintain data transformations in the Azure Databricks lakehouse, contribute to data modelling standards, and resolve data quality issues across the data intake platform.

You’ll collaborate with Underwriters, Actuaries, IT, and Platform teams to deliver robust data products and dashboards using Power BI and Databricks.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a Data Engineering role within the insurance industry.
• Advanced SQL and PySpark with hands-on data transformations and data products.
• Experience with medallion architecture and data modelling discussions with IT teams.
• Databricks experience including Delta Lake; familiarity with Unity Catalog and semantic layer tooling is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Silver and Gold table transformations in the Azure Databricks lakehouse.
• Contribute technical input into data modelling discussions for Silver and Gold layers.
• Investigate and resolve data quality issues arising from the data intake platform.
• Build new data products for business consumption; dashboards using Databricks Dashboards & Power BI.
• Collaborate with Data & BI team, stakeholders, and IT to translate requirements into robust data products.
• Develop data products within the lakehouse ensuring performance and reusability.
• Support code and modelling reviews to build confidence in business-owned data products.
• Build and maintain Power BI reporting and dashboards as needed.

Skills

Advanced SQL

PySpark

Data modelling

Medallion architecture

Databricks

Delta Lake

Power BI

Agile/Scrum

Data governance

LLMs & AI

Stakeholder management

Data products

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in science/tech/business

Databricks Certified Data Engineer

Azure Data Engineer Associate

Tools

Databricks

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

Power BI

Job description

Munich Re Group is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join the Great Lakes Data & BI team in London. You will design, build and maintain data transformations in the Azure Databricks lakehouse, contribute to data modelling standards, and resolve data quality issues across the data intake platform.

You’ll collaborate with Underwriters, Actuaries, IT, and Platform teams to deliver robust data products and dashboards using Power BI and Databricks.