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Data Strategy Lead, International - Guy Carpenter

Marsh McLennan Companies
Greater London
1 week ago
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Description:

Guy Carpenter is seeking a dynamic and hands-on leader in the UK to enhance, refine, and innovate our data strategy for our international reinsurance brokerage businesses. This role will focus on advancing the regional adoption of our global data lake, enhancing analytics in claims and contracts, and integrating semi-structured brokerage information. Our goal is to empower our clients, markets, and colleagues with cutting-edge data technology tools that set us apart in the industry. The datasets and products will require regional specialisation across various lines of business, including property, casualty, aviation, and marine, addressing critical events such as wildfires, hurricanes, floods, cyberattacks, and terrorism.

This position is targeted towards our international businesses headquartered in London, covering regions such as the UK, Latin America, Asia Pacific, Continental Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The role will be based in London and operates in a hybrid model, requiring at least three days a week in the office.

We will count on you to:

Advise and empower embedded data technologists to better serve their businesses.

Drive product adoption, support, and enhancement for existing data products.

Survey broking, analytics, &service colleagues on data needs and opportunities.

Cultivate strong relationships with leaders where the impact of data technology is a priority.

Calibrate and articulate the data roadmap to a broader stakeholder base.

Maintain a data skillset roster and regularly performresource gap analysis.

Demonstrate agility and a relentless focus on delivering value, navigating the landscape of available resources (personnel, technologies, data, etc.)

What you need to have:

Experience in traditional data technology roles, such as data engineer, data scientist, analytics engineer, backend engineer, or data product manager, within a data-driven organisation.

Strong experience with standard data tools such as Python, dbt, SQL, APIs, and Spark.

Proven experience in a lead role, such as a senior solutions engineer, client-facing senior data consultant, or start-up CTO, with a successful track record in delivering data products.

Strong experience in data analytics, EDA, data architecture, and schema design.

Experience building complex dashboards using tools such as Power BI, Tableau, etc.

What makes you stand out?

Expert with the Databricks platform or analogs (Snowflake or Palantir)

Experience with Python-based webapp frameworks (FastAPI, Django, etc.) and/or low-code data webapp frameworks (Streamlit, Plotly Dash, RStudio, etc.)

Knowledge of the insurance industry, or interest and ability to learn it quickly.

Why join our team:

We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work and supportive leaders.

We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have impact for colleagues, clients and communities.

Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being.

Marsh McLennan is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age background, civil partnership status, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments in accordance with applicable law to any candidate with a disability to allow them to fully participate in the recruitment process. If you have a disability that may require reasonable adjustments, please contact us at Marsh McLennan is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh McLennan colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.

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