Senior Data Analyst

Bestow; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity

Flexible PTO

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Lifestyle stipend

Remote-friendly / flexible work-from-h

Office in Dallas

Diversity & Inclusion initiatives

Job summary

Bestow is seeking an experienced data analytics professional to join our Analytics team. You will craft scalable data pipelines using SQL, dbt, and Google Cloud, delivering trusted data products to internal and external partners.

You will drive data visualization, governance, and quality initiatives, collaborating with engineers and stakeholders to optimize insights and decision making across the organization.

Qualifications

• 5+ years data analytics experience in data engineering or BI.
• Proficient in SQL and data warehouses.
• Experience with dbt, Airflow, and cloud data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Use SQL, dbt, CI/CD, Github, and Google Cloud to automate data transformation pipelines for enterprise partners.
• Create intuitive data products with Data Visualization tools to enable stakeholders to understand data.
• Communicate findings clearly to stakeholders and engineers, clarifying business requirements.
• Build subject matter expertise in the insurance domain to better anticipate partner needs.
• Recommend and adopt data governance best practices to improve data quality and controls.
• Construct data validation checks and automated tests to ensure reliable downstream analytics.
• Collaborate with data analysts and engineers and share work across teams.
• Maintain data quality through automated monitoring and on-call rotation when needed.
• Support team growth and development and participate in shared ownership.

Skills

SQL

BigQuery

dbt

Airflow

CI/CD

Github

Tableau

Google Cloud

Data modeling

Data visualization

Tools

Tableau

Google Cloud

GitHub

Job description

About Bestow

Life insurance is one of the world's most important products. It's also one of the hardest to build, distribute, and modernize. Bestow exists to change that.

About Bestow

Life insurance is one of the world's most important products. It's also one of the hardest to build, distribute, and modernize. Bestow exists to change that.

Bestow is a leading vertical technology platform serving some of the largest and most innovative life insurers. Our platform unifies the fragmented, legacy value chain, enabling carriers to launch products in weeks instead of years. Carriers choose us to scale and operate at unprecedented speed, powered by AI and automation.

Bestow isn't selling policies. We're building the infrastructure that helps an entire industry move faster, reach more people, and deliver on its promise.

Backed by leading investors (Goldman Sachs, Hedosophia, NEA, Valar, 8VC) and trusted by major carriers, Bestow is powered by a team that moves with precision, purpose, and heart. If you want to help reimagine a centuries-old industry with lasting impact, join us.

Bestow offers flexible remote/hybrid work, meaningful benefits, equity, and substantial growth opportunities.

Bestow uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, please visit E-Verify.gov.

About The Team

The Bestow Analytics team is a highly visible and dedicated team, working across the entire company to create data solutions that serve both our external partners and our internal stakeholders. The team works cross-functionally using cloud technology to provide curated data products, BI solutions, and high value deliverables. As a data analytics professional, you will span analytics engineering and insights to improve automation and decision making for our partners and internal stakeholders.

What You’ll Do

• Use SQL, dbt, CI/CD, Github, and Google Cloud to automate data transformation pipelines that flow to our various enterprise partners .
• Use Data Visualization tools (such as Tableau) to create intuitive data products, allowing our enterprise partners to better understand their business and trust their data.
• Strong communicator, not afraid to contribute during meetings with stakeholders and engineering teammates, and asks clarifying questions to better understand business requirements and opportunities.
• Build subject matter expertise within the insurance domain, in order to better anticipate partners’ needs.
• Recommend and adopt data governance best practices to Improve data quality and controls.
• Construct data validation checks and automated unit tests to catch data quality issues early, ensuring reliable downstream analytics and partner deliverables
• Collaborate with other data analysts and engineers, sharing work and cross-training others.
• Ensure data quality through automated monitoring and alerting, and occasionally serving within an on-call rotation.
• Maintain a positive attitude and encourage the growth and development of team members.
• Make decisions as a team. Propose your ideas. Review others’ work. Shared ownership.

Who You Are

• 5+ years - Strong SQL (eg: BigQuery) skills and ability to perform complex, effective, and efficient querying to extract data from cloud data warehouses
• Passionate about solving problems with data and continuously delivers valuable and positive results.
• Strong understanding of data transformation and quality engineering (eg: dbt and Airflow), and general software development lifecycle (SDLC, Agile development, CI/CD, Github).
• Strong understanding of data organization, data modeling, and schema design.
• Track record of writing efficient queries and reducing compute costs.
• Able to communicate about data and findings, drawing upon compelling and concise summaries and clear data visualizations (slides, whitepaper, Jupyter notebook, Tableau, Google DataStudio, PowerBI, etc.)
• Demonstrated experience with AI Coding assistants within IDEs or agentic CLIs – AI tools are heavily engrained in Bestow culture.
• Creating clear documentation of designs and code changes through Github, Lucid, Jira, or Confluence.

TOTAL REWARDS

At Bestow, we’re proud to be awarded for our team members, innovative products, and culture. Our standard benefits include:

• Competitive salary and equity based on role
• Policies and managers that support work/life balance, like our flexible paid time off and parental leave programs
• 100% paid-premium option for medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Lifestyle stipend to support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing
• Flexible work-from-home policy and open to remote
• Remote and WFH options, as well as a beautiful, state-of-the-art office in Dallas’ Deep Ellum, for those who prefer an office setting
• Employee-led diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives

Recent Employer Awards Include

• Best Place for Working Parents 2023 + 2024 + 2025
• Great Place to Work Certified, 2022 + 2023 + 2024 + 2025
• Built In Best Places to Work, 2022 + 2023 + 2025
• Fortune’s Best Workplaces in Texas 2022 + 2023
• Fortune’s Best Workplaces in Financial Services and Insurance 2022 + 2023 + 2024

We value diversity at Bestow. The company will hire, recruit, and promote regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, pregnancy or maternity, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. We understand the importance of creating a safe and comfortable work environment and encourage individualism and authenticity in every team member.

Thanks for considering a job at Bestow!