We are seeking a PowerBI Lead to join our dynamic Tech, Data & AI team. The ideal candidate is an inspirational expert, problem-solving oriented with strong analytical thinking. You will be defining the standards of the BI engineering practice, including but not limited to reporting standards, quality gates, guidelines and guardrails for an efficient management of the BI landscape, while ensuring strict adherence of the organization to these standards. You will be accountable for managing the central PowerBI platform in close collaboration with the Business Intelligence teams and self-service users, while supporting the overall reporting landscape migration and simplification.
Key duties and responsibilities
Under the responsibility of a Data Platform Lead, your mission will be to:
1. Manage the PowerBI stack by administrating the platform, defining and ensuring a clean architecture of projects, access management and delivery process while ensuring its successful utilization across SCOR.
2. Provide technical guidance, define standards for PowerBI developments to secure the robustness of delivery, production releases and ensure the quality of work is aligned with state-of-the art best practices.
3. Support BI engineering transformation by reviewing the current BI landscape, identifying migration strategies, assessing complexity and supporting the execution of this transformation.
4. Tackle key technical questions linked to reporting, such as identifying the right tools and technologies for given use cases, secure sharing of reports, on-the-fly vs precomputed datamarts, audit trails, etc.
5. Support teams by helping them grow their skills and autonomy on PowerBI while keeping up to date with latest technologies development (AI for BI, automated insights, etc.).
6. Collaborate with business, tech, data & AI stakeholders by participating to workshops or rituals (design sessions, PI plannings, sprint reviews) to ensure continuous, meaningful evolutions linked to the reporting ecosystem.
Required experience & competencies:
• +7 years of experience as a data, BI or analytics engineer, with solid experience in intervening in complex, scattered BI / reporting ecosystems
• Proven experience in intervening on the different aspects of a BI / reporting ecosystem, including requirements scoping, development of reports / datamarts, maintenance of existing reports, platform administration and/or upgrade
• Proven experience in working on BI migration projects and ability to demonstrate success factors of such programs.
• Proven experience in working in regulated environments and managing auditors.
• Experience in (Re)insurance industry and / or Financial Services is a strong plus
Technical Skills :
• Strong level in SQL, with proven experience in designing datamarts, cubes and/or universes and implement reports using best practices such as decisional modeling, slowly changing dimensions…
• Strong level in PowerBI.
• Provence experience in both developing, maintaining dashboards and administrating a BI platform (PowerBI, Tableau, Business Objects…)
• Knowledge of data management and data privacy topics is a must have
• Experience with Palantir Foundry and/or Python is a plus
• Hands-on experience with AI for BI is a plus
Behavioral & Management Skills :
• Strong analytical thinking, rigorous mindset solution-oriented and force of proposal
• Team player, commitment, curiosity, interest to challenge
• Capacity to navigate in a matrix and international environment and manage priorities
• Communication, ability to speak to a wide community of stakeholders (business, data, IT)
• Rigor in defining processes, standards and ensuring their execution
• Mentoring and proactiveness
Required Education
· Bachelor's degree in computer science, software or computer engineering, applied math, physics, statistics, or a related field or equivalent experience
As a leading global reinsurer, SCOR offers its clients a diversified and innovative range of reinsurance and insurance solutions and services to control and manage risk. Applying “The Art & Science of Risk,” SCOR uses its industry-recognized expertise and cutting-edge financial solutions to serve its clients and contribute to the welfare and resilience of society in around 160 countries worldwide.
Working at SCOR means engaging with some of the best minds in the industry – actuaries, data scientists, underwriters, risk modelers, engineers, and many others – as we work together to find solutions to pressing challenges facing societies.
As an international company, our common culture is defined by “The SCOR Way.” Serving both to build momentum that drives the Group forward and as a compass to guide our actions and choices, The SCOR Way is anchored by five core values, reflecting the input of employees at all levels of the Group. We care about clients, people, and societies. We perform with integrity. We act with courage. We encourage open minds. And we thrive through collaboration.
SCOR supports inclusion and the diversity of talents, and all positions are open to people with disabilities.
SCOR, one of the world's largest reinsurers, provides its clients with a diversified and innovative range of solutions to control and manage risk. Using its experience and expertise, “The Art & Science of Risk”, SCOR provides cutting-edge financial solutions, analytics tools and services in all areas related to risk – in Life & Health as well as in P&C.
The reinsurance industry is about combining technical expertise and experience with the developments of science. However many tools we use to conduct our activities (models, databases, pricing tools, reserving tools, and so on), we also need expert judgments and human experience to correctly underwrite. This is what we call the art of underwriting. Reinsurance is a knowledge industry. Expertise is an accumulation variable.
The most advanced tool will never replace the intuition of a seasoned underwriter facing a complex risk. Because at the end of the day, you have to make a decision, to sign, to underwrite. And what we have underwritten, we cannot overwrite - our word is our bond, as is our signature. This dimension of our business, linked to the art of underwriting, is more important than some observers would have people believe.
One way to acquire this art is to share experiences – both good and bad – and to share doubts and questions. Artists always belong to a school, from which they learn their craft.
Like artists, we have to learn, imitate, mimic, and then innovate, in order to find our own style and create our own distinctive work.
