Data & Analytics Product Owner

The Shipowners Club is a mutual insurance association based in the City of London. We offer Protection & Indemnity (P&I), Legal Costs Cover and associated insurances to smaller and specialist vessel owners, operators and charterers around the world. Building on over 170 years of experience, the Shipowners Club provides tailor-made insurance packages for each operator according to their particular need.

We are now seeking an experienced Data & Analytics Product Owner to join us on a permanent basis. The successful candidate will bring a strong technical expertise and a desire to develop in a friendly and supportive insurance company. This is a great opportunity to work with an experienced team, gaining valuable technical and business knowledge while growing into a more strategic role. Youll be working on cutting edge technologies from the early stages of an exciting project, helping to shape and enhance our data platform. Our diverse team of data architects, data engineers and analysts is highly collaborative, goal driven, and supportive, providing an environment where knowledge sharing and professional development are actively encouraged.

We also have a hybrid working model (minimum 2 days in the office).

We recognise the business benefits of having a diverse and inclusive community. We all have something unique to bring to the table and by embracing those differences we seek to build and maintain an environment which attracts and values diversity and where everyone can develop their talents and be themselves. For us, diversity and inclusion goes above and beyond focusing on protected characteristics we want all our colleagues to bring 100% of themselves to work. With a happy and engaged workforce we all strive to work together to be the best that we can be for the mutual benefit of ourselves and our Members.

Overall responsibility of the Role:

Take ownership of the Clubs data platform, overseeing the end-to-end process from source data to presentation, ensuring data integrity, governance, usability, and performance meet business needs.

Manage and prioritise the Data & Analytics (D&A) backlog, collaborating with stakeholders to drive continuous improvement, ensure data accuracy and timeliness, and enhance business insights.

Role Responsibilities:

• Accountable for the design of data models through different data domains that can support analytical processes and reporting.
• Accountable for up-to-date technical documentation in an Enterprise Architecture tool.
• Responsible for prioritising the backlog of work for our Data Lakehouse and BI tool based on business and technical priorities/dependencies.
• Ensure the data flows are documented and data marts reconciliation from source to reporting layer is certified.
• Lead and collaborate with a multi-skilled team to deliver against the D&A strategy.
• Be an ambassador for the art of the possible, ensure that structured analytical solutions are scalable and meet the business objectives whether tactical or strategic.
• Identify and assess internal and external data sources to derive business insights, tactical decision making and hypothesis.
• Develop fit-for-purpose, resilient, scalable and future-proof data services to meet user needs.
• Implement data flows to connect operational systems, data for analytics and business intelligence (BI) systems.
• Develop Key Performance Indicators and metrics that measure the performance of the data platform.

Skills & Experience Required:

• Bachelors degree in computer science, engineering or related field.
• Experienced with cloud technologies focusing on Microsoft platform. E.g. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Google BigQuery, Snowflake, or Microsoft Azure Databricks
• Proficient in using tools like Python, R, or SQL to automate repetitive tasks, conduct analyses, and develop custom solutions.
• Exposure to Azure DevOps and CI/CD concepts would be beneficial.
• Prior experience with data warehousing, modelling and analysis.
• Good knowledge of data visualization tools like Power BI or Tableau.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to turn data into clear, actionable insights.
• Excellent stakeholder management; builds strong relationships and communicates effectively across all levels.
• Highly organised, self-motivated, and results-driven; able to manage workload and deliver independently or as part of a team.
• Solid understanding of project management, SDLC, and data visualisation principles.

Candidates must be eligible to work in the UK.

Due to the large numbers of responses we receive, it is not possible to respond to every application. Therefore only short-listed candidates will be contacted for this particular role and if you havent heard from us within 3 weeks please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

No Recruitment Agencies please.

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