Analytics Engineer

Our story - continued commitment to doing the right thing

2005 seems like a long time ago. Simply Business – a small company with a big idea. To transform the way that other small businesses could get the insurance that they need. To reduce time, hassle and jargon wherever possible while introducing the simplicity, choice and value that small businesses are entitled to. To protect them from harm. To keep their livelihoods safe. And to do all this with the promise of positive service. Delivered by happy people, working flexibly, learning constantly. With a restlessly innovative spirit. Within a business committed to doing the right thing. All of the time.

As we’ve grown, we’ve tried hard to keep true to this. To ourselves, to our 800 strong team and to the 3.5m customers that we’ve served so far.  And as we move forward, as we enter a big new market, as we grow responsibly, as we improve our products, as we offer our customers more of what they need, of what they deserve, we’ll hold onto the focus of that small company with the big idea. Protecting and serving businesses across the UK and the US. From barbers to bakers, consultants to cleaners, they are the backbone of the economy.

And we’ll continue to stand by them. Bit by bit helping their dreams grow, just like ours.

 Why do we need this role?

• 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.

In this role, you will: 

• 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 productionize

• Particular focus will be on use cases that will help us drive operational efficiencies as the organization scales.

• Increase the organization's ability to convert more customers. 

• Clearly communicate data-driven insights and recommendations to non-technical audiences

• Contribute to longer term strategic DNA projects

What are we looking for:

• At least 3 years of overall experience in data & analytics, operational analytics experience is desired;

• Degree with analytics or software engineering experience or equivalent work experience;

• Experience with cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake or similar;

• Experience designing and creating SQL data models using dbt (dbt Certification a plus);

• Strong communication and data presentation skills through the use of effective data visualisation 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;

• Self-starter who is comfortable working in a globally distributed team environment

• Experience in Python or another programming language (e.g. Kotlin, Scala, Ruby) is welcomed