Lead Data Engineer [T500-21598]

About BRIT :

Brit India GCC is the heart of Brit Insurance’s innovation engine. Their team of highly skilled professionals specializes in Data Engineering, Platform Engineering, Full-Stack Web Application Development, Data Management, and Testing. Born in 1995 in London (UK), Brit Ltd. is a leading international general insurance and reinsurance group. Boasting one of the largest and most diverse portfolios in Syndicate 2987, we hold an influential and respected presence at Lloyd's of London. Renowned for our innovative approach to commercial insurance and reinsurance, we at Brit are committed to securing an uncertain future with a hallmark of certainty.

A legacy of excellence, driving innovation and personalized service to create exceptional customer experiences.

• Brit has a leadership position at Lloyd’s, the most well-known insurance market in the world. At Brit, we believe that the uncertainty of the future should never stand in the way of progress. That’s why we exist. To help people and businesses face the future and thrive.
• We are change-makers enabled by a global workforce who collaborate to deliver a risk service. Our goal is to attract and retain the best talent in the market and empower those individuals to innovate, and champion the strategic objectives within the business. Our technology and data teams have led some of the most noteworthy developments in the London market, by delivering digital, data and AI driven capabilities :
• Data is a key capability to drive Brit’s ambition for digital, innovation, growth and efficiencies. Brit leads the market with respect to our data modernisation journey, delivering on our vision to build a central, trusted, cost efficient, flexible, and scalable cloud native data platform that enables us to harness maximum value from internal and external data for Brit.
• Brit is active in advancing digital trading approaches, most notably with respect to Broker APIs. At Brit, we are designing a multi class of business headless API which connects Brits pricing and document generation to multiple global Broker platforms, Market Hubs, and enables bulk submission ingestion.
• Brit has launched its Underwriting Transformation journey advancing our capabilities deploying digital foundations for pricing and underwriter workbench. Brit’s new modern Underwriting Platform is at the heart of this transformation agenda, with a focus on engineering, upskilling in python, exploring ingestion and analytics, we are actively delivering our digital future.
• Our market leading proprietary machine learning algorithm designed to accelerate the identification of post catastrophe property damage, based on the use of ultra-high-resolution imagery, allows Brit to accelerate service to its customers when they need it most, noted as the first enabler for virtual claims adjusting in the London market.
• We value continuous learning & exploration, encouraging our people to constantly evolve and take advantage of the best-in-class technology & tooling.
• If you have the drive to work in a flexible, fun, passionate Technology and Data team we would love to hear from you!

Purpose of the Job :

The Lead Data Engineer leads a team to deliver an effective Azure Data Lake platform, utilising Delta Lake, Azure Synapse Analytics, Databricks, and PowerBI. The role plays a pivotal part in the architectural design and implementation of these solutions, ensuring they meet a broad range of financial and underwriting reporting and analytics needs.

Leveraging prior AI expertise, this role embeds machine learning and automation into data engineering workflows, accelerating innovation and enhancing efficiency across the platform. The position combines technical leadership, team management, and strategic stakeholder engagement to support Brit’s next-generation data platform.

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