Hybrid Senior Analytics Engineer

at Travelers

• Job title: Senior Analytics Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Apache, Cloud
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Senior Analytics Engineer at Simply Business designing data models and building infrastructure for AI and ML enhancement. Collaborating with engineering and product teams to integrate new data sources.

Responsibilities

• Design and build authoritative data models in our warehouse, ensuring every asset is robust, scalable, and fully AI/ML ready
• Integrate diverse new data sources to enrich our analytical capabilities and provide the complex datasets required for advanced machine learning
• Collaborate across engineering and product teams to ensure application designs support sophisticated reporting and real-time AI features
• Manage and optimise ELT pipelines that serve as the single source of truth for our Finance, Operations, and Marketing teams
• Champion technical standards by mentoring junior engineers and driving best practices in data governance and quality assurance
• Pioneer feature engineering pipelines that allow us to challenge the status quo and deliver refreshing, data-led solutions to our customers

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in analytics or data engineering, specifically modeling and transforming data using tools like dbt
• Technically proficient in cloud environments, with hands-on experience using Snowflake or Databricks to manage large-scale data assets
• Experienced in building ML features, with a passion for creating the infrastructure that makes artificial intelligence possible
• Adaptable and curious, ideally bringing familiarity with various programming languages and an interest in evaluating new tools to drive AI adoption
• A proactive problem solver who might have experience with real-time streaming (like Apache Flink) or a background in the insurance domain
• A relatable communicator who can translate complex technical architecture into plain English for stakeholders across the business

Benefits

• a great work-life balance where workloads are manageable and everyone has the flexibility to work hybrid
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• the option to buy five more days of holiday with your flexible benefits
• 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
• life event leave is an extra days leave every two years for those big moments in your life like moving house or your birthday
• long-serving employees get a two week paid sabbatical after five years of service, then four weeks off after ten years of service
• private medical insurance through BUPA, that covers any pre-existing condition is a core benefit
• a health cash plan that covers your everyday medical expenses
• a competitive salary based on your experience and the current market
• potential to earn an annual bonus based on performance
• access to tools to support your personal development on our dedicated learning platform
• support for your mental health with access to counselling
• we match what you put into your pension up to five per cent
• 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)
• 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