Argo Group is a leader in specialty insurance with a vibrant culture built on respect, equality, wellness and opportunity. We’re an innovative organization that’s small enough to be agile and big enough to make a difference in our industry.
Our collaborative workplace is continuously evolving to ensure all employees feel:
- Comfortable bringing their whole selves to work.
- Confident that they will be treated respectfully.
- Recognized for their performance and provided with equal opportunities to succeed.
At Argo, skill meets opportunity. If you’re wired to raise your hand and ask, “Where can I help?”, you’ll thrive with us.
At Argo Group, our team members are critical to our long-term success – so wherever in the world they work, everyone works together.
We are seeking a Sr. Data Analyst to serve as a liaison between the IT Data Analyst team and the functional business units. The role will report to the Director of Data and will be key in understanding the business needs and aligning them with data team’s strategy and architecture.
This position will be located on-site, full-time in either our San Antonio, Omaha, Chicago, Richmond or New York office.
This role will lead a team of analysts responsible for translating business needs into requirements for technical teams to execute on. It is imperative that this individual have a strong business acumen, experience interacting with leadership, and an in-depth understanding of insurance data.
This role will lead a team whose responsibilities include determining source to target mappings for the loading of the Enterprise Warehouse, documentation of the technical requirements necessary to enrich data at the source to conform to Argo standards and ensuring that the data reconciles to current financials. The Sr. Data Analyst will also ensure that analysts are meeting objectives and completing assigned tasks in a timely manner and will maintain a backlog inventory of pending items for the team to focus on. This individual must have excellent communication skills.
What does the Sr. Data Analyst's workday look like?
- Identify, create and facilitate process design by conducting business and systems process analysis, focusing on quality improvement and data management ensuring reliability and validity of data.
- Facilitating business requirement walkthrough meetings and partnering with the business on functional specification reviews
- Collaborate closely with technical teams to implement the requirements
- Write SQL Queries that will make our data evaluation process more flexible or scalable across data sets.
- Diving into large data sets, uncovering insights, and providing impactful recommendations.
- Perform analysis for documenting detailed data lineage (source to target mappings).
- Identify data control requirements, i.e. Reconciliations and validations.
- Reviews, documents, and categorizes current or as-is state of the business process or function including creating flow charts and process models and develop portions of the desired future or to-be state of those processes.
- Organize complex problems into simple solutions and precise business and technical requirements
What is required for the position?
Required Skills
- Structured data analysis and data requirements development experience is required.
- Core responsibility will be to truly understand data and create data lineage necessary for data strategy.
- Strong SQL and Excel skills with the ability to learn other analytics tools.
- Document data and business process flows.
- Experience in insurance industry is preferred.
- Prior experience with database and model design is preferred.
- Ability to communicate complex information to others in a way they can understand.
Experience
- Data analysis: 8+ years (required)
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Business Administration, Computer Science, Mathematics, or Statistics, or equivalent work experience.
- 5+ years’ experience with Snowflake/SQL databases.
- 3-5 years of work experience in the Property & Casualty Insurance industry.
- Familiarity with Agile and Scrum methodologies.
Developing our employees professionally and personally strengthens our organization. Argo Group offers competitive pay and benefits that protect and enhance the lives of employees and their eligible dependents by way of health and wellness plans, life insurance, savings and investment opportunities, adoption assistance, education assistance, and matching gifts for education and charitable causes, just to name a few.
Come join the World Class Leader in Global Specialty Insurance and build your career here! And don’t forget to tell your friends, we have a fantastic Employee Referral Program too!
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, ancestry, color, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, national origin or citizenship (including language use restrictions), denial of family and medical care leave, disability (mental and physical) , including HIV and AIDS, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), race, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex (including pregnancy, child birth, breastfeeding, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, child birth or breastfeeding), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or other status protected by federal, state and/or local laws.
PLEASE NOTE: At this time, Argo Group will not sponsor an applicant for employment authorization for this position.
If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or a similar law and you wish to discuss potential accommodations related to applying for employment at Argo Group, please contact our Benefits Department at 210-321-8400.
To all recruitment agencies: Unless you have been requested to work on this position, or other positions with Argo Group, please do not forward any resumes to Argo Group employees. Argo Group is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
Argo Group International Holdings, Inc. (“Argo” or the “Company”) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Brookfield Wealth Solutions, Ltd. (“BWS”), a New York and Toronto-listed public company. Argo, with over $8 billion of assets on its balance sheet, is a leading underwriter of specialty insurance products in the property and casualty (P&C) market, working with independent agents, wholesale brokers, and retail brokerage partners to deliver collaborative solutions for niche markets.
BWS is a leading wealth solutions provider, focused on securing the financial futures of individuals and institutions through a range of wealth protection and retirement services, and tailored capital solutions. BWS is backed by Brookfield Corporation, a leading global investment firm whose asset management business manages more than $1 trillion in assets as of September 30, 2024.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, ancestry, color, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, national origin or citizenship (including language use restrictions), denial of family and medical care leave, disability (mental and physical) , including HIV and AIDS, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), race, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex (including pregnancy, child birth, breastfeeding, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, child birth or breastfeeding), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or other status protected by laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We do not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.
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Our Benefits
Developing our employees professionally and personally strengthens our organization.
Argo Group offers an attractive Total Rewards package that includes:
- A culture that recognizes performance and empowers employees to excel, offering competitive compensation and merit driven profit sharing.
- Workplace policies that support employee well-being include flex time and floating holidays.
- Comprehensive health, wellness, and financial planning options that employees can tailor to meet their personal and family needs. In addition to traditional health and wellness plans, benefits include dental, disability, life insurance, medical, and vision insurance, matching 401(k) retirement savings, generous paid time off (21 days of PTO, 11 paid company holidays, 3 floating holidays and a paid voluntary day), paid caregiver and parental leave, paid bereavement, jury duty/court appearances, and military (up to 14 days) leave, employee assistance program (EAP), and an array of voluntary benefits.
- Argo Academy, a digital and instructor-led platform that offers continuous learning and professional development – Training magazine lists Argo among the Training "Top 125" Companies. Argo encourages career mobility and continuing education to pursue and maintain professional and industry designations, in addition to traditional university and higher education programs.
- An inclusive culture that develops and sponsors diverse teams, encourages cross-functional engagement and collaboration, builds community through employee resource groups (ERGs), and provides an environment that welcomes ongoing dialogue, creative innovation, professional and personal development.
- Active community outreach and volunteer programs.
- A generous Employee Referral program that results in approximately 25% of all new hires annually.
