Analytics Engineer

Here’s what you’ll be doing:

This role will sit within the global Data and Analytics team (DNA) in Simply Business. DNA has been central to empowering data-driven decision making at SB. We have invested heavily in our data pipeline, data engineering and our business intelligence capabilities. 

In 2023 and beyond, we will continue investing a significant amount of effort in ramping up our Business Intelligence capabilities to drive business decisions.

The primary duty of this role will be to provide analytical support for our business stakeholders. This includes leading the measurement and evaluation of our product value streams and ensuring that we continuously improve the effectiveness of our product investments. Success in this role will require you to be a trusted advisor to our business partners, ensuring we focus our efforts on the most value-added insights initiatives.

As one of our Analytics Engineers, you’ll:

• create data models in our Snowflake data warehouse
• integrate new sources of data to enrich our analytical capabilities 
• work with the engineering and product teams to ensure application design accommodates reporting and analytics requirements
• work with various business and engineering teams to ensure reliable, scalable, robust architecture for our analytics platform and ETL pipelines
• partner with stakeholders to identify business use cases and translate them into the right analytical problem that you will build, test and productions
• focus will be on use cases that will help us drive operational efficiencies as the organisation scales.
• increase the organisation's ability to convert more customers. 
• communicate data-driven insights and recommendations to non-technical audiences
• contribute to longer term strategic DNA projects

We're looking for someone who is..

• experienced in data & analytics, operational analytics experience is desired;
• Degree educated with analytics or software engineering experience or equivalent work experience;
• experienced with cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake or similar;
• experienced designing and creating SQL data models (dbt experience a plus);
• strong at communicating and data presentation skills through the use of effective data visualization and BI tools, e.g. Looker, Tableau, Power BI, etc;
• effective at building strong, influential relationships with colleagues and partners, with demonstrated success in delivering impactful insights to executives;
• a self-starter who is comfortable working in a globally distributed team environment

(We know it’s tough, but please try to avoid the ​​confidence gap​.​​ You don’t have to match all the bullet points above to be considered for this role.)

Ready to join us and level up your Analytic engineering skills? Apply today.

About Simply Business

We insure small businesses and enable big dreams – not just for our customers, but for our people and communities too. With over 1,000,000 active insurance policies, we protect builders, bakers, landlords and more than 1,200 other trades.

We’re a technology company as well as one that sells insurance. That means we build, we fail, we learn and we improve. We’re a B Corp too, which recognises our strong track record of having a positive impact on people, society and the environment.

Why not check out our advert on YouTube: Simply Business TV advert 2024: 'Simply the Best'

What are the benefits of working at Simply Business?

We offer a great work-life balance where every team member has a manageable workload and the flexibility to work hybrid. 

On top of the 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), we offer leave that suits your needs. Plus the option to buy five more days of holiday with your flexible benefits. 

Our flexible parental leave allows you to approach an important time how you want – with six months full pay to the primary caregiver and four weeks full pay if you’re the secondary caregiver.

Our life event leave is an extra days leave every two years for those big moments in your life like moving house or your birthday. And as a thank you to our long-serving employees we offer a two week paid sabbatical after five years of service, then four weeks off after ten years of service.

And our core benefits can put your mind at ease with private medical insurance through BUPA, that covers any pre-existing condition. And a health cash plan that covers your everyday medical expenses.

We also make sure you’re compensated fairly with a competitive salary based on your experience and the market we’re in. Plus the potential to earn an annual bonus based on performance.

There’s access to the tools to support your personal development with programmes on our dedicated learning platform. As well as support for your mental health with access to counselling. 

We’ll match what you put into your pension up to five per cent. And pass on a tax-free sum that’s four times your basic salary with our life assurance policy, with the option to increase it to ten times through our flexible benefit scheme

Our salary sacrifice car scheme gives you the option to buy a brand new, fully insured, and maintained car for a convenient fixed monthly amount taken from your gross salary (after 6 months service).

And our flexible benefits scheme gives you an allocated amount to use each year on benefits like critical illness cover, dental insurance, travel insurance, or a gym membership.

Ready to join us and drive our success as a high-performing team? Apply today.