Senior Data Analyst

Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Companies; Phoenix (AZ); Hybrid; USD 78,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid schedule

Generous PTO

Medical, dental & vision

401(k) and tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Companies is seeking a Senior Data Analyst to act as a strategic partner across business stakeholders and technical teams. You will shape data products, manage BI solutions, and drive data governance in a hybrid, office-and-remote environment.

The role emphasizes advanced SQL, Power BI development, and collaboration with underwriting, claims, actuarial, and enterprise data teams to deliver accurate, actionable insights and scalable data assets.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in data/analytics, consulting, or related field within insurance.
• Experience identifying business problems and delivering data solutions for underwriting/claims.
• Ability to translate business needs into data/BI requirements.
• Strong communication skills for stakeholders and teams.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams through ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders to clarify business problems and define success metrics.
• Translate insurance needs into implementation-ready data requirements and mappings.
• Profile data and validate logic using SQL; investigate anomalies and ensure data quality.
• Own the Power BI lifecycle: requirements, design, dashboards, validation, deployment.
• Lead analytics efforts to identify trends and risk, enabling data-driven decisions.
• Collaborate with data engineering on data models and semantic layers.
• Mentor and guide junior analysts, promoting best practices in BI.

Skills

Data analytics

Insurance knowledge

Business requirements

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in data science or related field

Tools

Power BI

SQL

Job description

Overview

Good things are happening at Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Companies—an A+ (Superior) rated, nationwide Property & Casualty insurer backed by Berkshire Hathaway. With supportive leadership, collaborative teams, and opportunities to grow, GUARD is a place where people build meaningful, long‑term careers.

Good Things You Can Count On.

• Hybrid schedule: 2 days remote / 3 in‑office
• Predictable hours (no nights, weekends, or holidays)
• Competitive pay + generous PTO
• Medical, dental & vision starting day one
• 401(k), tuition reimbursement & longevity bonuses

Responsibilities

The Senior Data Analyst serves as a strategic partner between business stakeholders, Data Product Managers, and technical teams to transform business requirements into trusted analytical solutions and data products. This role is responsible for requirements analysis, data validation, metric development, business intelligence solutions, and data governance activities that support operational, underwriting, claims, actuarial, and enterprise decision-making.

The Sr Data Analyst leverages advanced analytical skills, deep insurance business knowledge, and data expertise to ensure data assets are accurate, accessible, and aligned with organizational objectives. The Senior Data Analyst plays a key role in supporting data-driven business decisions and advancing enterprise data product capabilities.

Essential Responsibilities And Principal Accountabilities

• Partner with Data Product Managers, business leaders, and cross‑functional stakeholders to clarify complex business problems, define requirements, establish success measures, and drive alignment on data product adoption and business outcomes.
• Lead the translation of insurance business needs into implementation‑ready requirements, including business rules, data definitions, source‑to‑target mappings, metric logic, acceptance criteria, and data quality standards.
• Utilize advanced SQL techniques to profile data, validate business logic, investigate data anomalies, reconcile results, assess data quality, and provide actionable insights across complex and integrated data environments.
• Own and lead the Power BI development lifecycle for assigned domains, including requirements gathering, solution design, dashboard development, validation, deployment, user adoption, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Lead descriptive and diagnostic analytics efforts to identify trends, root causes, opportunities, and risks, delivering actionable insights that support operational and strategic decision‑making.
• Collaborate closely with data engineering teams to define data models, semantic layer requirements, reusable dimensions, governed metrics, and scalable data structures that support enterprise analytics capabilities.
• Lead business validation activities and data product quality reviews with Data Product Managers, QA analysts, and business stakeholders to ensure solutions are accurate, reliable, usable, and aligned with business needs.
• Establish and maintain comprehensive documentation, including business definitions, metric definitions, data dictionaries, reporting standards, usage guidance, and key decision records to support data governance and consistency.
• Support the successful rollout and adoption of data products by communicating business value, facilitating stakeholder engagement, gathering user feedback, monitoring utilization, and identifying enhancement opportunities.
• Serve as a subject matter resource for data analysis, reporting, and business intelligence best practices, providing guidance and knowledge sharing to analysts and business partners as appropriate.
• Provide guidance, mentoring, and technical support to Data Analysts and other team members, fostering analytical capability and adherence to best practices.

Qualifications

Required qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience in product management, data and analytics, business analysis, consulting, strategy, or a related field within the insurance industry.
• Demonstrated knowledge of underwriting, actuarial, rate/product, portfolio, or underwriting operations processes.
• Experience identifying business problems, shaping opportunities, and delivering insurance data solutions that support underwriting decisions, pricing analysis, portfolio insight, or operational execution.
• Strong business acumen and ability to connect data capabilities to underwriting, actuarial, product, pricing, portfolio, or operational outcomes.
• Experience leading cross‑functional teams through ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, and influencing without direct authority.
• Experience facilitating workshops, interviews, discovery sessions, prioritization discussions, and product planning conversations.
• Ability to translate between business needs and data or technical concepts to support shared understanding and sound decisions.
• Ability to define product goals, success measures, roadmaps, adoption plans, and prioritization criteria.
• Proven ability to adapt, solve problems, and make progress in a changing environment.
• Excellent spoken and written communication.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years in data analysis, business analysis, analytics, reporting, or a related data‑focused role.
• Strong Property & Casualty insurance knowledge, including business concepts, metrics, and processes across underwriting, claims, actuarial, or operations.
• Advanced SQL skills, including data profiling, joins, aggregations, reconciliations, validation, issue investigation, and analysis across complex data sets.
• Hands‑on Power BI (or comparable) experience, including requirements, dashboard design, prototyping, semantic modeling, development, testing, deployment, and user enablement.
• Experience translating business needs into requirements, metric definitions, quality expectations, BI solutions, and implementation‑ready inputs for engineering teams.
• Experience partnering with engineers, governance teams, QA analysts, and business stakeholders on modeling, source‑to‑target mapping, validation, and reusable consumption layers.
• Familiarity with modern data concepts such as data products, data mesh, semantic models, metadata management, data quality, access controls, and governed consumption patterns.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, facilitation, and communication skills across business and technical audiences.
• Ability to work through ambiguity, organize details, influence across teams, and support outcome‑focused delivery.
• Bachelor’s degree in data science, Business Analytics, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, Insurance, or a related field preferred.

Salary Range $77,762.70-$180,082.10 + bonus

In accordance with applicable pay transparency laws, this range represents a good‑faith estimate. Final compensation will be determined based on factors such as experience, credentials, geographic location, and other considerations permitted by law.

This role may be based out of any of our office locations, including:

• Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without current or future sponsorship.

Locations

• US-PA-Wilkes Barre
• US-AZ-Scottsdale
• US-TX-Plano
• US-PA-Philadelphia

Interview Integrity Notice:

Berkshire Hathaway GUARD is committed to a fair and consistent hiring process. Candidates are expected to participate independently in interviews. Unauthorized recording, transcription, AI note‑taking, or AI interview assistance tools may not be used during interviews without prior approval.