Lead Data Translator

The Great Eastern Life Assurance Company Limited; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

The Great Eastern Life Assurance Company Limited is seeking a Lead Data Translator to bridge Business stakeholders with the Group Data & AI division. You will steer the analytics agenda, translate business challenges into analytical problems, and ensure solutions deliver measurable value.

You will lead a cross-functional team of analysts, data scientists, and engineers to drive data-driven decision making and embed analytics into core business processes across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Business Analytics, Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, Actuarial Science or equivalent disciplines that focuses on extensive use of data for analysis.
• 7+ years of experience in analytics, consulting, or business strategy roles with exposure to data-driven initiatives.
• Strong understanding of analytical concepts including formulation of hypothesis, and hypothesis validation.
• Broad understanding of data, analytics and AI trends with ability to translate them into practical applications.
• Strong leadership and influencing skills at senior executive level.
• Deep business acumen with ability to balance quick wins with long-term value creation.
• Excellent problem solving, storytelling, and stakeholder engagement skills. Working level competency in Python and/or SQL programming required.
• Experience in data visualization software such as Tableau.
• Experience in insurance or financial services industry is a plus.
• High level of integrity, takes accountability of work and good attitude over teamwork.
• Takes initiative to improve current state of things and adaptable to embrace new changes.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the organisation data translation strategy to maximise business impact from data and analytics.
• Partner with senior business leaders to identify, scope and map out the analytics roadmap for the business division and translate them into a clear portfolio of initiatives.
• Translate complex business challenges into clear analytical problem statements and develop the solution approaches.
• Oversee the alignment of analytical solutions and work closely with data analysts, data scientists and data engineers to ensure solutions are feasible, interpretable, and aligned to business needs.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders in the formulation of business cases and success metrics to evaluate the impact of analytics initiatives.
• Translate technical outputs into actionable business insights and recommendations.
• Act as a thought leader in embedding data-driven decision making into core business processes and culture.
• Collaborate with data translator community to build synergies and ensure consistency across the organisation.
• Contribute best practices and promote data and analytics literacy within the business teams.

Skills

Data translation

Stakeholder management

Analytics roadmap

Hypothesis formulation

Data-driven decision making

Leadership

Business acumen

Problem solving

Python

SQL

Tableau

Communication

Education

Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Business Analytics, Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, Actuarial Science or equivalent

Tools

Tableau

Python

SQL

Job description

The lead data translator serves as a strategic liaison between Business stakeholders and Group Data & AI division. This role helps to drive the strategic adoption and scaling of data & analytics and orchestrate engagement with business leaders. The lead data translator would help to design and develop analytical solutions that are aligned to business strategic objectives and ensure that analytical solutions deliver tangible business outcomes and long-term value creation.

• Define and drive the organisation data translation strategy to maximise business impact from data and analytics
• Partner with senior business leaders to identify, scope and map out the analytics roadmap for the business division and translate them into a clear portfolio of initiatives
• Translate complex business challenges into clear analytical problem statements and develop the solution approaches
• Oversee the alignment of analytical solutions and work closely with data analysts, data scientists and data engineers to ensure solutions are feasible, interpretable, and aligned to business needs
• Collaborate with business stakeholders in the formulation of business cases and success metrics to evaluate the impact of analytics initiatives
• Translate technical outputs into actionable business insights and recommendations
• Act as a thought leader in embedding data-driven decision making into core business processes and culture
• Collaborate with data translator community to build synergies and ensure consistency across the organisation
• Contribute best practices and promote data and analytics literacy within the business teams

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Business Analytics, Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, Actuarial Science or equivalent disciplines that focuses on extensive use of data for analysis
• 7+ years of experience in analytics, consulting, or business strategy roles with exposure to data-driven initiatives
• Strong understanding of analytical concept including formulation of hypothesis, and hypothesis validation
• Broad understanding of data, analytics and AI trends with ability to translate them into practical applications
• Strong leadership and influencing skills at senior executive level
• Deep business acumen with ability to balance quick wins with long-term value creation
• Excellent problem solving, storytelling, and stakeholder engagement skills Working level competency in Python and/or SQL programming required
• Experience in data visualization software such as Tableau
• Experience in insurance or financial services industry is a plus
• High level of integrity, takes accountability of work and good attitude over teamwork
• Takes initiative to improve current state of things and adaptable to embrace new changes