Senior Data & BI 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.

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 side-by-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 $30 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 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 to benefit our shareholders and joint venture partners. 

About the Position

Reporting directly to the VP, Systems Strategy & Architecture, for Investments, the Senior Data & Business Intelligence Engineer will lead key initiatives, leveraging cutting edge cloud and integration technologies to enable data-driven decision making. The team comprises engineers from various disciplines including software engineering, data and BI engineering, process automation, quality assurance amongst others. As a Senior Data and BI Engineer, you will contribute to and manage the team’s efforts to move away from legacy analytical solutions to modern, cloud native data platform solutions, including Dremio, to unlock newer analytical capabilities and insights for the business. Engineers in the team have varying levels of skills and experience.  This is both a hands-on role and expected to demonstrate technical leadership working alongside and training junior engineers. 

The Senior Data & BI Engineer, Investments, is an excellent opportunity for an experienced, solutions-oriented, and agile individual who thrives in growth environments, is comfortable with ambiguity, enjoys partnering with peers and business stakeholders to achieve goals, and is motivated to train and mentor less-experienced team members.  At RenaissanceRe, you’ll find 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 Senior 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 to other RenaissanceRe offices, including Bermuda, London, and New York.

Key Relationships

• Reports to:  VP, Systems Strategy & Architecture, Investments

• Key Stakeholders & Partners:  Investment Operations; Core Investments team, including Managing Directors, CIO, and Head of Quantitative Investments

• Key Partners:  IT Portfolio Managers and other senior Engineers; Enablement Teams, such as Data Office and Platform Strategy

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop BI solutions, automated tests, documentation, and related processes to meet and exceed the requirements of Investments team and stakeholders

• Lead the technical design efforts for BI subcomponents to achieve and implement fit-for-purpose solutions

• Work closely with Investments team and partners to ensure implementation, testing, and improvement of solutions across various project phases

• Scope development efforts for specific tasks and contribute relevant workstream input to broader estimates covering holistic technical solutions under development

• Prepare artefacts, analysis reports, and solution designs that comply with business prerequisites

• Define, refine, meet or exceed quality, reliability, resilience, scalability, and stability project goals  

• Develop proficient knowledge of internal systems for operational support

• Mentor and coach junior squad members in the technical and business domains; actively work to advance the technical and design skills of the squad

• Communicate and engage with the processes adopted by the squad

• Embrace the RenaissanceRe culture and demonstrate it in daily activities

Candidate Qualifications:

• At least 7+ years of relevant experience and proven track record working with technical teams in a financial services context using a similar technology stack, including:

  • Hands-on BI work experience in an Agile environment

  • 4+ years of experience in building reports based on Tableau/PowerBI utilizing Dremio or any other data lake engines

  • Proven design ability with a detailed understanding of industry standards and norms across BI, including but not limited to data & dimensional modelling; experience with large-scale solution design and architecture preferred

  • Experience with one of the Change Management tools or platforms, e.g. JIRA or ServiceNow

  • Working knowledge of cloud platforms such as Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure preferred

  • Experience mentoring or managing junior engineers through the development lifecycle preferred

• Experience and understanding of IT challenges, opportunities, and applications in a Financial Services context, including data governance and compliance standards; specific Investments or Asset Management experience 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 required for specific tasks in sprint ceremonies

• Undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent industry experience

Leadership Competencies & Values:

• Impact:  Sets objectives, delivers results, and implements policies/operational targets with direct impact on the department or individual work outcomes

• Execution: Proactively identifies resources, actions and timelines needed to achieve objectives, effectively balancing tactical pressures with broader implications and downstream impact

• Communication: Shares relevant information in a timely manner with stakeholders and conveys points of view in a way that influences opinions and demonstrates flexibility

• Client and solutions focus:  Identifies process and service opportunities that enhance the external and internal client experience and outcomes

• Innovation:  Stretches self and others to think differently and innovatively, drawing upon multiple sources for ideas and inspiration

• Learning mindset:  Seeks out and explores new assignments, exposure, or challenges in order to enhance technical skills

• Values:  Exemplifies and champions RenaissanceRe’s core values of Focus, Respect, Integrity, Precision, Passion

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.

At RenaissanceRe, we believe in creating a workplace culture that fosters diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout our business. We have a zero-tolerance policy for harassment and discrimination and take proactive steps to make employees feel valued and empowered to contribute to our collective success. It is RenRe’s policy to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, national origin, marital or domestic/ civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status, uniformed service member or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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.