Overview
At Banner Life Insurance Company, we lead with heart and ambition. Every day, we transform purpose into progress, guided by our unwavering commitment to be better for our customers, clients, and communities, not just today but long-term as well. Our people are the driving force behind everything we achieve. Their passion, purpose, and pursuit of innovation empower us to deliver cutting-edge solutions that support those we serve, ensuring we are here for you, here for good and striving for better.
We’re a forward-thinking company energized by our work and how we show up for one another. Our culture is built on meaningful impact and genuine enjoyment, because we believe great work and great experiences should go hand in hand.
By offering career development opportunities, comprehensive benefits, and programs that support your wellbeing, we help you thrive personally and professionally. We are here for you, here for good and here for better.
The Business Intelligence Engineer will support the enterprise as a data and reporting subject matter expert. Implement and maintain Business Intelligence solutions that enable data-driven decision making at all levels of the organization. Manage the creation and delivery of performance reporting to key stakeholders.
Take an ownership role in the collection of accurate, clean, and impactful data. Successfully translate data intelligence into actionable insight for both technical and non-technical audiences. Contribute to corporate goals, including growing sales, reducing expenses, and increasing profitability.
Responsibilities
Essential Responsibilities
Maintain data engineering best practices, including coding, model development, and Databricks cluster maintenance, and serve as a subject matter expert (SME) on architectural review boards for governance approvals.
Supports various leaders of analytic functions across the Company, including FP&A, Actuarial Data Science, Distribution and Marketing, Operational Planning, Risk, and Legal and Compliance.
Develop ETL/ELT processes leveraging PySpark, Python, and SQL for data transformation.
Lead and own planning and forecasting initiatives used for strategic planning, headcount management, and expense management.
Act as key point of contact with IT for breakages, enhancements, and new software releases, including Power BI version control, data pipelines, Bitbucket notifications, and SharePoint.
Serve as a subject matter expert for surveys, coach and work with junior specialists, and represent the team at the LIMRA quarterly carrier check-ins.
Develop data products from business requirements and customer requests, inclusive of time estimates for construction and testing.
Maintain, own, and enhance daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly Business Intelligence deliverables.
Perform functional and gap analysis to support new and existing reports, dashboards, and analytics.
Provide guidance, analysis, and estimates of effort for assigned tasks and projects.
Translate performance objectives into project specifications for development teams. Assess the impact of updates to source production systems on business intelligence deliverables.
Collaborate, coordinate, and communicate across disciplines and departments.
Demonstrate intermediate to advanced level programming languages that improve Business Intelligence through automation.
Keep management informed of project statuses and manage delivery to target dates.
Peer review requests as assigned by BI management.
Efficiently and proactively identify data discrepancies and advocate for data quality and integrity.
Assist in the mentoring and cross training of other staff.
Qualifications
Qualifications
Education
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Business Analytics, Statistics, Applied Mathematics or equivalent practical experience.
Knowledge of insurance, financial services, or healthcare industries (preferred)
Demonstrated experience engaging with various leaders, including C-level executives, along with the ability to represent the BI team in meetings and written communications.
Certifications: Databricks Certified Data Engineer, Azure Data Engineer Associate, Power BI Data Analyst (preferred)
Experience/Knowledge
5 or more years of experience in business intelligence, data engineering, or analytics
Strong proficiency in SQL and database design (SQL Server, Azure SQL, Delta Lake)
Advanced Python programming skills (Pandas, PySpark, data manipulation libraries)
Experience with Azure Databricks, Delta Live Tables, and Spark
Proven expertise in data visualization tools (Power BI and Tableau)
Knowledge of cloud platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure
Experience with version control systems (Git, Azure DevOps, GitHub)
Understanding of data warehousing, Lakehouse architecture, and dimensional modeling
Familiarity with API integration and RESTful services
Experience with Databricks serverless computing and Photon engine.
Experience with Office365 integration (SharePoint API, Excel automation).
Certifications: Databricks Certified Data Engineer, Azure Data Engineer Associate, Power BI Data Analyst
Experience with machine learning concepts and machine learning workflows
Knowledge of streaming data processing and real-time analytics
Openness to learning emerging AI tools and incorporating them into workflows (GitHub Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT, etc.)
Skills
Highly organized and detail-oriented, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Python programming experience required. Familiarity with Python data engineering (Pandas) preferred.
Experience with databases and writing SQL queries to access data required.
Experience with Tableau preferred.
Cloud computing experience (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform) preferred.
Demonstrated data analysis experience and ability to understand core business success drivers.
Demonstrated ability to present and provide meaningful business insights from data
Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
Ability to learn quickly, follow direction and execute tasks independently.
Ability to plan and execute all phases of a project with group and independent responsibilities
Ability to assist, train and mentor other staff members.
What’s in it for you?
The expected hiring compensation range for this position is $109,900 - $151,150 annually. This is a hybrid opportunity working in Frederick, MD The total compensation package for this position may include other elements, such as a sign-on bonus, long term incentives, and annual bonuses. This role is eligible to participate in the Annual Incentive Plan.
The current target payment for the position is 20% of base salary, modified for corporate and individual performance. Bonuses are pro-rated based on start date. This role has 20 vacation days and 10 sick days that are accrued on a bi-weekly basis.
Employees also have 9 paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
We have a competitive compensation and benefits package focused on your overall wellbeing. Employee benefits include health, life, and dental insurance; 401K with company match up to 6% as well as a pension package; generous time off; and wellbeing initiatives throughout the year (we like doing fun stuff). We’re big on professional development and we’ll support and mentor you in your career progression and expect you to help us pay it forward by helping us develop tomorrow's leaders and growth-focused professionals.
We value our teams and our communities and believe in giving back. Enjoy time off to volunteer for those causes that matter most to you!
If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors. The Company reserves the right to change benefits plans at any time.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
Please contact us to request accommodation.