Argo Group is a U.S.-focused underwriter of specialty insurance products in the property and casualty market. We offer a full line of products and services designed to meet the unique coverage and claims-handling needs of businesses.

Since 1957, we share a firm commitment to working together with independent agents, wholesale brokers and retail brokerage partners to deliver innovative products for niche markets. Headquartered in Bermuda, we’re a diverse company with multiple offices in the United States.

Our belief that the company’s success is linked to our employees drives our commitment to creating an environment and culture of respect where everyone can thrive. We value helping the communities around us, growing alongside our employees through innovation and creating a workplace with work-life balance.

We seek a Sr. Data Analyst to liaise between the IT Data Analyst team and the functional business units. The role will report to the VP of Group Data and will be key in understanding the business needs and aligning them with the data team’s strategy and architecture. This position will be located in our New York office, or a hybrid schedule in New York. Possible option for remote work within a reasonable commute to our 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
• Process flow diagrams and other diagrams
• Lead facilitation of requirements and design discussions
• 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.
• 5+ years of experience in data mapping techniques
• Strong SQL and Excel skills with the ability to learn other analytics tools.
• Document data and business process flows.
• P&C Insurance experience is required.
• 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: 5+ 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 Postgres/SQL/Oracle/Snowflake databases.
• 8+ years of work experience in P&C Insurance as a business/data analyst.
• Familiarity with Agile and Scrum methodologies.