Senior Data Specialist - Definity, Toronto

Day-to-day

As a Senior Data Specialist at Definity, you will be at the forefront of developing innovative data products for Commercial Insurance. This role involves transforming complex business challenges into actionable data solutions, leveraging your expertise in analytics and data product development. You will be an integral part of a dynamic team focused on delivering game-changing data initiatives.

• Actively contribute to the design of new and innovative data products for Commercial Insurance.
• Analyze and evaluate new data sources based on current and future business requirements.
• Facilitate and participate in user story and requirement elaboration sessions with business and technical stakeholders, identifying both upstream and downstream functional and non-functional requirements.
• Oversee the documentation and translation of business needs into compelling user stories with clear business requirements and technical specifications.
• Contribute to project management activities such as scoping, impact assessments and estimating project efforts, identifying risks and recommending mitigation measures, communicating activity status as well as escalating and communicating possible issues.
• Work with business and engineering teams on test planning, test case creation, documentation, and review of test case results for data products.
• Work collaboratively with business stakeholders to ensure completeness of data documentation, monitoring of data integrity, and data governance.
• Keep current on data and analytics tools and best practices and share experience and learnings with data consumers and colleagues.

Skills and experience

To excel in this Senior Data Specialist role at Definity, you will bring a strong foundation in data and analytics, coupled with practical experience in product development. We are seeking an individual with a passion for turning business needs into innovative data solutions, enhancing our insurance offerings.

• University degree in Computer Science, Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, or equivalent.
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience with prototyping and development of data and analytics products as a Data Analyst or Data Engineer.
• Experience in Agile product development is highly preferred.
• Expert level skills in SQL and Python on cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with Scala, Java or C++ is an asset.
• Experience with modern insurance processes and common data products is considered a strong asset.
• Familiarity with data science, machine learning, data visualization, and geospatial analytics.

Who you'll work with

You will report to the Director, CI Data Management, joining an innovative and dynamic team dedicated to translating business needs and opportunities into new data products for Definity's Commercial Insurance teams. Definity fosters a collaborative, ambitious, rewarding, and empowering culture, recognized by Great Place to Work® as one of the Best Workplaces™ in Canada for women, youth, and inclusion. This is an excellent opportunity to contribute your experience to one of Canada’s leading and most innovative property and casualty insurers.

Benefits

Definity values its employees and offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your professional growth and personal well-being. Experience a workplace where inclusion, diversity, and equity are essential to our success, making it a better place to build your career.

• Hybrid work schedule for most roles
• Company share ownership program
• Incentive Program - Eligible employees may participate in various incentive plans which are paid out at the discretion of the company and subject to individual and company performance.
• Pension and savings programs, with company-matched RRSP contributions
• Paid volunteer days and company matching on charitable donations
• Educational resources, tuition assistance, and paid time off to study for exams
• Focus on inclusion with employee groups, support for gender affirmation surgery, access to BIPOC counsellors, access to programs for working parents
• Wellness and recognition programs
• Discounts on products and services