Data Management Specialist - Guildford, United Kingdom - Allianz UK

Allianz UK

Verified Company

Guildford, United Kingdom

3 days ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

About the Role

Are you looking to progress your career with Data? If you are passionate about data this may be a role just for you.

The purpose of this role is to work within Data Value Management (DVM)

Team order to effectively drive the key data capabilities to our business customers:
Data Management, Data Quality, Master and Reference Data Management.

You will be a seasoned data professional with technical mind and have an appreciation for business, as well as an excellent communicator with strong stakeholder management skills in order to gain greater insight of their data requirements and effectively drive Allianz UK Data Strategy.

As Allianz we're one of the largest general insurers in the UK, which means we have lots of IT and data legacy to work with, but we are on a transformation journey harnessing Cloud capabilities and cutting edge data software.

This is an incredible opportunity to create value, using the array of data management, quality and analysis tools available to us, our vast pool of data and deep industry expertise.

Key responsibilities

Lead and perform analysis and develop foundational data management products to deliver a comprehensive end to end business offering (Metadata Management, MDM/RDM/Data Quality, etc).
Support configuration of new resource connection onto Enterprise Data Caralogue (EDC) enabling harvesting of technical metadata, use and set up of custom resources and custom data lineage
Support the definition and implementation of data management concepts, frameworks and associated best practices.
Create or enhance processes and standards, continuing to improve the organisation data maturity both within the data depts and business areas.
Drive adoption of Data Ownership framework and Data Asset Cataloguing in Allianz UK
Support the delivery of our data management strategy enabling data products that will help hundreds of staff in supporting our customers, and influence our business strategy.
Drive a better understanding of the value of data with stakeholders and users and contribute to improvements in data management, quality and governance.
Maintain relationship with our business customers, in order help to identify improvement opportunities by understanding specific business area's value drivers and help recommend valuedriven solutions to key stakeholders.
Build relationships and collaborate with stakeholders around the business in helping to create data driven solutions to business problems.
Deliver hands on analysis of datasets through data profiling and cleansing tools.
Trouble shooting hurdles limiting the business adoption of data processes and tools.
Work autonomously and within a highly skilled team to deliver both business process and technology enabled business change.

Skills and experience

Knowledgeable and experienced in more than one area of area of data management (Metadata, MDM/RDM, Modelling, etc) with an enthusiasm to learn about others
Prior use of the Informatica governance toolset (i.e AXON & EDC) would be highly desirable although full training will be provided
Experience with IBM IIS (InfoSphere Information Toolset) including RDM and MDM Modules
Aware of how important KPIs are for monitoring business outputs and project implementations with some familiarity of BI software(i.e. Cognos, MicroStrategy, etc)
Technically competent with data components yet able to explain complex concepts to nontechnical audiences.
Practical experience of data manipulation and analysis
Experience of a programming language (SQL, Python, C, etc) and Azure products would be beneficial.
Experienced in digesting data strategies and best practices and feeling sufficiently qualified to implement their themes in new or uplifted processes and standards.
Understanding of external data enrichment for commercial organisations
Experience working in an Agile project environment or managing large items of work

- ideally in the context of data

Experience in presenting and stakeholder management
An interest in developing new skills
Great communication skills, team player, selfstarter
Organised, demonstrated strong work ethic, results driven and able to hit deadline
Adaptable to working in an agile environment
Able to juggle multiple projects and stakeholders
An inquisitive mind to join data and business value across a complex landscape
Comfortable balancing day to day operational priority data activities alongside project commitments

Our Benefits

Recognised and rewarded for a job well done, we have a range of flexible benefits for you to choose from - including: retail discounts and discounted insurance cover - so you can pick a package that's perfect for you.

That's on top of enjoying all the benefits you'd expect from the world's number one insurance brand, including: