Senior Power BI & Insights Developer

Are you an experienced Power BI Developer looking for an engaging new opportunity?

We are looking for an individual to provide expertise and create meaningful insights to the business here at Markel

What part will you play? If you’re looking for a place where you can make a meaningful difference, you’ve found it. The work we do at Markel gives people the confidence to move forward and seize opportunities, and you’ll find your fit amongst our global community of optimists and problem-solvers. We’re always pushing each other to go further because we believe that when we realize our potential, we can help others reach theirs.

Join us and play your part in something special!

The opportunity:

The team is embedded within the business and works closely on a day-to-day basis with expert underwriters, claims handlers, finance, actuarial, sales, operations, and management. This close interaction is key to delivering detailed solutions quickly, to the people that need them.

You will be working in an R&D oriented team with strong cloud data engineering, data science and Power BI skills. The team will support you and your team with the creation of robust data pipelines and implementation of pricing tools across NM, ensuring the highest standard in data quality, integrity, and governance. Working together to achieve this will allow you to focus on one of your key tasks – the collection of key pricing data across NM and production of clean, consistent pricing MI via our Power BI dashboards.

This role will be suited to a creative and flexible problem solver, with an ability to balance priorities, long-term projects and responding to ad-hoc requirements. Leading a team remotely will be a key skill to develop, as well as a desire to get into the detail when required. Data wrangling skills, along with some knowledge of SQL, are desirable for this role.

We can look at candidates based in either London, Leeds or Manchester for this role.

What you’ll be doing:

• Develop reports, visualisations, and other business analytics tools across all areas of NM.

• Design and implement automated data and reporting solutions, being comfortable working across Development, Test and Production environments.

• Represent the NM Analytics team, as appropriate, providing accurate and timely information, data and insights to NM leadership, Markel International leadership and for meetings as the need arises.

• Maintain and develop new and existing data models using standard methodology coding, with a focus on optimisation to drive performance and efficiency improvements.

• Collaborating closely with the Data Science & Engineering pillar of the team, providing feedback on and suggesting improvements to data pipelines and models where vital.

• Investigate and provide solutions for issues | bugs | data errors arising based on user feedback.

• Implement regular updates and improvements to keep reports current and accurate.

• Maintain and develop existing business intelligence dashboards in Power BI.

• Will take ownership for documentation, training, and support on the rollout of new reports, dashboards, and tools, driving data literacy across NM within the data space.

• Will become a key collaborator on Power BI across Markel International, guiding and recommending the best opportunities to innovate and develop the underlying technology.

• Should be willing to learn new technologies and become an SME to the NM Analytics team and where vital National Markets overall. For example, driving the adoption of standard process version control for Power BI reports.

Our must-haves:

• Demonstrable experience as a Power BI Developer or similar role, with strong proficiency in DAX, Power Query (M-Language) and creating data models.

• Experience with SQL for data querying and manipulation.

• Experience with data visualization standard methodologies.

• Solid understanding of data modelling and database concepts.

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.

• Ability to balance competing priorities, long-term projects and ad-hoc requirements

• An understanding the product delivery cycle and agile methodology is an advantage, as is experience of Azure and Databricks.

• Knowledge of a second language is a plus.

Who we are:

Markel Group (NYSE – MKL) a Fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory and investment operations around the world.

We’re all about people | We win together | We strive for better | We enjoy the everyday | We think further

What’s in it for you?

• A great starting salary plus annual bonus & strong benefits package…

• 25 days paid holiday plus Bank Holidays, with the opportunity to buy / sell extra leave

• Fantastic company pension scheme, private medical and dental cover, life assurance, travel insurance cover, income protection, season ticket loan as well as other great benefits on offer

• There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career and we can provide the support needed to do just that!

Are you ready to play your part?

Choose ‘Apply Now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.

Markel celebrates the value of a diverse workforce that brings experience and expertise from a wide variety of backgrounds and life circumstances. Whatever your background, if you feel you meet the requirements of this role then we want to hear from you. We are also happy to consider candidates who are looking for flexible working patterns.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with all reasonable accommodations to be able to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions if successful. Please contact us via email at rec@markel.com or call us at 0161 507 5827 to request any accommodations that may be needed. This includes any alternative formats of any documents or information on how to apply offline.