Data Modelling Lead - Beazley

Who We Are:

Beazley is a specialist insurance company with over 30 years’ experience helping people, communities and businesses to manage risk all around the world. Our mission is to inspire our clients and people with the confidence and freedom to explore, create and build – to enable businesses to thrive. Our clients want to live and work freely and fully, knowing they are benefitting from the most advanced thinking in the insurance market.  Our goal is to become the highest performing sustainable specialist insurer.

Our products are wide ranging, from cyber & tech insurance to marine, healthcare, financial institutions and contingency; covering risks such as the weather, film production or protection from deadly weapons.

Our Culture:

We have a wonderful mix of cultures, experiences, and backgrounds at Beazley with over 2,000 of us working around the world. Employee’s diversity, experience and passion allow us to keep innovating and moving forward, delivering the best. We are proud of our family-feel culture at Beazley that empowers our staff to work from when and where they want, in an adult environment that is big on collaboration, diversity of thought and personal accountability. Our three core values inspire the way we work and how we treat our people and customers.

• Be bold
• Strive for better
• Do the right thing

Upholding these values every day has enabled us to become an innovative and responsive organization in touch with the changing world around us – our ambitious inclusion & diversity and sustainability targets are testament to this.

Beazley is a flexible and innovative employer offering a friendly, collaborative, diverse and inclusive work environment. We actively encourage and expect applications from all backgrounds. We are proud to offer a flexible working environment, where our employees are able to work from the location that they consider most appropriate for the tasks they are undertaking. There will still be a requirement to attend the office based on business need, but our people are empowered to work with their teams to establish a model that works well for the individuals and for stakeholders. Beazley offers a competitive salary and bonus with a strong benefits package, including pension, commuting reimbursement, free in-office lunch, excellent parental leave, and financial, physical and mental wellbeing contributions.

Explore a variety of networks to assist with professional and/or personal development. Our Employee Networks include:

• Beazley RACE - Including, understanding and celebrating People of Colour
• Beazley SHE - Successful, High potential, Empowered women in insurance
• Beazley Proud - Our global LGBTQ+ community
• Beazley Wellbeing - Supporting employees with their mental wellbeing
• Beazley Families - Supporting families and parents-to-be

We encourage internal career progression at Beazley, giving you all the tools you need to drive your own career here, such as:

• Internal Pathways (helping you grow into an underwriting role)
• iLearn (our own learning & development platform)
• LinkedIn Learning
• Mentorship program
• External qualification sponsorship
• Continuing education and tuition reimbursement
• Secondment assignments

General:

At Beazley we are committed to doing the right thing because it is the right thing to do.  It is important that within all your interactions both internally and externally you adhere to this principle through adoption of Beazley’s core values and behaviours.  

• Adopt the Beazley culture of professionalism, integrity, effectiveness, and dynamic attitude that contributes to an internal environment of teamwork and promotes a positive brand image and experience to our external customers.
• Comply with Beazley procedures, policies and regulations including the code of conduct.  Undertake training on Beazley policies and procedures as delivered by your line manager, Talent Management, or assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) either directly, via e-learning or the learning management system. 
• Display business ethics that uphold the interests of all our customers.
• Ensure all interactions with customers are focused on delivering a fair outcome, including having the right products for their needs.
• Comply with any specific responsibilities necessary for your role as outlined by your line manager, Talent Management, or assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) and ensure you keep up to date with developments in these areas.  This may include, amongst others, Beazley’s underwriting control standards, Beazley’s claims control standards, other Beazley standards and customer relationship management.
• Carry out additional responsibilities as individually notified, either through your objectives or through the learning management system.  These may include membership of any Beazley committees or working groups.

Data @ Beazley:
Our Data team supports Beazley’s vision by...

• Being bold through pioneering & championing an exciting vision of how people interact with data
• Facilitating innovation by leading the pace of change in data & analytics, and facilitating the latest capabilities and innovative technologies
• Doing the right thing by providing a controlled working data environment that allows all business domains to thrive independently
• Being the single source of truth for enterprise-wide reporting metrics and KPIs

The Role:
Data is one of Beazley’s greatest assets and our data reflects the complexity of our business. Our data architecture is in the process of modernisation and rationalisation. Your role will be essential to our transformation into a digital company to meet our ambitious growth plans. As a Data Modeler, you will be responsible for building the Enterprise Data Model within Beazley’s Data Mesh by defining the approach and design for the conceptual, logical and physical data models that will be used to develop Data Products. You will lead the transition to operationalize our data, leading to greater efficiency, higher quality data and better business insights. You will also work within the Chief Data Office and Beazley’s business stakeholders to mature data literacy and capabilities as Beazley undertakes a significant investment in modernization, enabling you to embed a culture of data excellence.

Key Responsibilities:
Shape the approach and processes used for developing efficient, high quality data products by designing an Enterprise Data Model (EDM) that considers the operational needs of Domains within a Data Mesh. Provide subject matter expertise to guide the EDM structure, with recommendations for Domains and Subdomains that balance business and technical needs.

• Create and maintain the Enterprise Data Model and collaborate with Domain data teams to drive alignment to the model
• Develop and implement best practices for data modelling to ensure integrity and consistency across Beazley
• Analyse data product requirements and identify sources to support our modernisation programme and development of data products / data mesh
• Evaluate existing data systems, set the standards and work with the domain and development teams to create conceptual, logical and physical data models
• Ensure data meets the modelling standards, is aligned to our data management framework and enhances business outcomes
• Present and communicate modeling results and recommendations to internal stakeholders
• Ensure domain and product owners engage with the data model and understand how this will underpin domains whilst adhering to the Data Mesh and Data Management policies
• Obsess about reusable components, accelerators and shared frameworks to reduce duplicate effort
• Work as part of the wider data products team to meet our modernisation and rationalisation objectives across our traditional relational database estate and our modern data architecture implementation
• Be a trusted partner for the CDO and drive cultural shifts that elevate engagement, literacy and competence across the business to enhance our data future

Personal Specification:
We’re looking for candidates with experience designing and implementing an Enterprise Data Model that enables the development of efficient, high quality data products. The successful candidate should have experience with end-to-end model development and entity-relationship design from data preparation to build and validation in an insurance setting. Candidates should be able to demonstrate technical data skills including data modelling and data product design. They should have the ability to innovate, motivate peers, and collaborate across Beazley and with its partners. The successful candidate should have a passion for data and a curious mindset both for Beazley and the wider insurance industry. Great communication skills across all levels of seniority and the ability to represent Data to our colleagues and clients.

Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to identify and help the business to assess options and solutions that best fit requirements
• Ability to synthesise complex data problems into conceptual, logical models and physical solutions
• Neutral toward technology, vendor, and methodologies; more interested in results than in personal preferences
• Effective at driving short-term actions that are consistent with long-term goals
• Strong stakeholder management, understanding of needs, and influencing with the ability to communicate concisely at a number of levels
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to manage time, meet deadlines and prioritise with agility should demands change
• Understanding of insurance principles and strategic drivers

Knowledge and Experience:

• Modelling capability with the ability to clearly represent complex ideas graphically
• Experience working within strategy and product development teams to support data needs
• Understanding of enterprise modeling, data governance standards, tools, technologies and protocols
• Familiar with a variety of modelling approaches, tools and model repositories
• Experience using data modelling tools such as Visual Paradigm and SQL DBM
• Familiarity with the evolution of Data Lake, Data Warehouse and Data Mesh concepts
• Ability to translate complex domain specific concepts into knowledge that can be understood and consumed across domains
• Extensive knowledge of relational and dimensional database structures, theories, principles, and practices
• Understanding of large-scale data processing, including the use of stream
• Proven team player with ability to work with all levels in a highly intellectual, collaborative, and fast paced environment
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to tailor them appropriately for different audiences, technical backgrounds, and seniorit

Don’t meet all the requirements? At Beazley we're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with every requirement and qualification in the job specification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right candidate for this, or one of our other roles. 

The Rewards:

• The opportunity to connect and build long-lasting professional relationships while advancing your career with a growing, global organization
• Attractive base compensation and discretionary performance related annual bonus
• Private medical insurance coverage for both you and your dependents
• Company paid life assurance and long term disability insurance
• Pension with 10% employer contribution, plus a further matched contribution up to 2.5%
• 25 days of annual leave (prorated for 1st calendar year of employment), plus public holidays, with the ability to flex the religious bank holidays to suit your religious beliefs, subject to approval. Additional annual leave purchase is also available up to a maximum of five additional days per year.
• Up to 2.5 days matched paid leave for volunteering at a charity of your choice and 5 days paid leave to provide or arrange care for a dependent with a long term care need annually
• Up to £550 reimbursement towards home office setup
• Free in-office lunch and monthly lifestyle allowance
• Monthly travel allowance or annual season ticket
• The opportunity to save for, and purchase, shares of Beazley stock
• Six months fully paid parental leave, regardless of how you come to parenthood
• Company paid sabbatical up to 12 weeks after 10 years of continued service
• Support with exam/study leave and fees for relevant qualifications related to furthering education
• Smart working policy and flexible working culture, trusting our employees to do what works best for them, their role and the needs of the business