Data & Business Intelligence Engineer, Investments

RenaissanceRe is a leading writer of Property & Casualty Reinsurance. For over 25 years, we have helped customers and communities recover and build resilience through our industry-leading ability to understand risk, source efficient capital and rapidly pay claims.

Our global team shares a passion for solving our customers’ biggest problems through a collaborative and entrepreneurial culture that empowers employees and rewards creative thinking.

Position: Data & Business Intelligence Engineer, Investments

Job Location: Dublin, Ireland _________________________________________________________________________________

About RenaissanceRe

For over three decades, RenaissanceRe has helped its clients manage the risks of operating in a volatile and uncertain world. We’re experts in Property, Casualty, Specialty, and Credit reinsurance, consistently recognized for the innovative way we combine data, experience and technology to understand and manage large and complex risks across the world. We are also a business with a real social purpose - we help protect communities around the globe and enable prosperity for all. Our purpose drives us forward every day as we seek solutions to some of the world's most complicated challenges. To learn more, please visit us at Careers - RenaissanceRe (renre.com).

About IT

Innovation and technology are essential to our success at RenaissanceRe. We believe in strong business and IT alignment, working closely together to develop leading capabilities to support our globally integrated operating model. This joined-up thinking and passion for continuous improvement help drive our cutting-edge systems. From the start, our business has run with technology and data innovation at its heart. Today, we continue to invest in advanced risk and portfolio insights enabled by serverless financial modelling, a data mesh architecture, and artificial intelligence with innovative partners. The impressive scalability and performance this has enabled has helped us achieve industry-leading results. The RenaissanceRe IT team is developing next generation technology that has real world impact. Working sideby-side with best-in-class risk specialists, we help to solve complex problems that help protect communities around the world. A career in IT at RenaissanceRe is continually evolving, technically innovative, and highly rewarding. Our main IT hubs are Dublin, Bermuda, Canada, and Raleigh, North Carolina.

About Investments

The Senior Data and Business Intelligence Engineer role supports our Investments function. RenaissanceRe’s Investments team manages our $29 billion investment portfolio, allocating our assets, either directly or through investment managers, to deliver alpha against our strategic benchmark. We invest in a diverse range of assets from treasuries and corporate bonds to equities and private credit in order to provide capital and liquidity for underwriting risk and paying claims. Our investment portfolio is one of RenaissanceRe’s “Three Drivers of Profit”, along with underwriting income and fees, providing $1.2 billion in net investment income in 2023 to benefit our shareholders and joint venture partners.

About the Position

Reporting directly to the VP, Systems Strategy & Architecture, for Investments IT, the Data & BI Engineer will work on key initiatives, leveraging cutting edge cloud and integration technologies to drive data-driven decision making. The team comprises engineers from various disciplines including software engineering, data and BI engineering, process automation, and quality assurance, among others. As a Data and BI Engineer, you will be helping the team to move away from legacy analytical solutions to modern, cloud native data platform solutions such as Dremio to unlock newer analytical capabilities and insights to the business, supporting our growth in size and complexity as well as establishing a foundation from which we can continue to scale.

This is an excellent opportunity for a solutions-oriented and agile individual with an energetic and enthusiastic approach who thrives in growth environments, is comfortable with ambiguity, and enjoys partnering with peers and business stakeholders to surface the best ideas.  You’ll find at RenaissanceRe a flat team structure and a highly collaborative culture that values progress over perfection and encourages creativity, innovation and diversity. Engineering teams are organised into squads that in turn are aligned to specific portfolios of projects with agile methodology in place.

The Data and BI Engineer role is based in the Dublin office, collocated with the majority of the IT and Investments teams.  Occasional travel may be required, including Bermuda, London, and New York.

Key Relationships

• Reports to:  VP, Systems Strategy & Architecture, Investments
• Key Stakeholders & Partners:  IT Developers, Engineers, and Portfolio Managers; Investment Operations; Core Investments team, including Managing Directors, CIO, and Head of Quantitative Investments

Key Responsibilities

• Develop Data and Business Intelligence solutions, automated tests, documentation, and related processes to meet and exceed the requirements of Investments stakeholders and other functional partners
• Engage in the technical design efforts for Data and BI subcomponents to achieve and implement fit-for-purpose solutions
• Work closely with business teams and leads to define and execute different project phases to meet timing and quality expectations
• Meet or exceed the quality, reliability, resilience, scalability, and stability goals of their assigned work
• Dive into learning RenaissanceRe’s current state, developing proficient knowledge of internal systems to provide operational support and make thoughtful change recommendations
• Communicate and engage with the processes adopted by the squad, bringing a continuous improvement lens
• Embrace the RenaissanceRe culture of collaboration, focus, respect, integrity, precision, and passion and demonstrate it in daily activities

Candidate Qualifications:

• 4+ years of relevant experience and proven track record working with technical teams using a similar technology stack, including:
  • Hands-on ETL/ELT work experience in an Agile environment
  • Experience building PySpark-based data pipelines
  • Working knowledge of at least one cloud platform such as Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure preferred
  • Experience with a Change Management tool or platform such as JIRA, ServiceNow, or similar
  • Familiarity with software such as Dremio, PowerBI, Tableau, Postgres, AWS Glue/ Databricks helpful
• Experience and understanding of IT challenges, opportunities, and applications in a Financial Services context, specifically in Investments or Asset Management, strongly preferred
• Demonstrated learning agility and facility adopting new technologies and systems
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills
• Ability to estimate and clearly articulate development effort time required for specific tasks in sprint ceremonies
• Undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent industry experience

We believe that meeting these requirements will position you for success in the role. However, if you fulfill most – but not all – of the expectations, we still encourage you to apply, as we are eager to explore your potential and believe in the ability to grow and learn.

Our people are our most valuable resource and core to our success. This is a fast-paced business environment, demanding a strong work ethic and a results-oriented approach. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, a comprehensive talent development program, and a reward system in which employees share in the success of the company. We are an engaged member of the communities in which we live and work and have a locally-led giving philosophy with generous employee matching program, global and local community grants and employee volunteerism.

We seek diversity, create equity, and practice inclusion. Our people are at the heart of everything we do. We are an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal opportunity to all qualified individuals regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, disability, military status or other legally protected categories.