Data Engineer (Insurance Finance + IFRS 17 focused)

Role Summary

Bowtieʼs mission is to make insurance good again and our vision is to build a category-defining health insurance company.

As a young and fast-growing company, grooming and learning from the next generation is always our priority. We are looking for great talents who share our values to help us unleash the power of data for informed decision-making, stay competitive, and achieve their strategic objectives.

This is a newly created role and you will be setting the foundation for (and possibly leading) our BI/ data team moving forward!

About the Role

You will be working in a fast-paced organization that promotes cross-functional collaboration.

On a daily basis, you will collaborate hands-on with backend engineers and business users - specifically the Finance and Actuarial team - to architect, maintain and promote a secure self-service BI solution, including but not limited to, data warehousing, ETL (Extract, Load, Transform) pipelines, automations and various reporting systems for these teams.

Your Key Responsibilities Include:

70-80% on IFRS 17 and finance-related matters:

IFRS 17 Data Management and Reporting

• Design and implement data models and pipelines specifically tailored to IFRS 17 reporting requirements

• Develop comprehensive data solutions that support complex insurance contract accounting standards

• Create robust data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) processes for IFRS 17 compliance

Technical Data Infrastructure

• optimise our existing centralized data warehouse for financial and actuarial analysis

• be the bridge between engineering and finance / actuarial - understand user stories and insurance operation workflows, model raw ingested data into business-user-friendly entities

• design technical strategies and infrastructure to facilitate self-service business intelligence, including strategies to deploy data warehouse changes with CI/CD pipelines and automated DataOps practices

General Reporting and Analytics

• prepare automated reports for strategic projects and regulatory reporting (leveraging automated extraction pipelines and semantic data layers)

• assist Finance and Actuarial teams to scale existing reporting workflows

• develop and maintain data quality checks and validation mechanisms

20-30% on other data engineering work in other area (e.g. marketing, operations)

Roughly, the composition of your task will be as follows:

• Discussion between the technical and financial teams

• Generating and streamlining reports for Finance and Actuarial

• Data modelling

• Maintaining and optimizing our data warehouse and pipeline processes to fit the Finance and Actuarial team’s needs

The success of this role will be measured by:

• successful end-to-end delivery of IFRS 17 data infrastructure

• accuracy and completeness of financial reporting

• accuracy and efficiency in the data handling process

About you

We are looking for a smart, curious, and problem-solver with the following skills and qualifications

• [must have] 3+ year of experience as a data engineer

• [proficient] Data Modelling techniques using SQL

• [proficient] Has experience in a cross-collaboration working environment: both with the engineering team and business users, being able to listen to user stories, and consolidate business requirements

• [proficient] Good understanding of software engineering practices

• [highly preferable] Experience in IFRS 17 related project 

• [highly preferable] 1+ years of experience working in the insurance industry

• [preferable] High-level knowledge in cloud-based infrastructure and services (preferably in AWS)

• [fair] Experience in popular data tools and frameworks, e.g. Airflow, dbt

• [fair] Experience in using data visualization/ BI tools, e.g. Looker, Mixpanel, Tableau, Power BI

• [fair] Experience with modern data transformation tools (e.g. dbt) and data workflow orchestrators (e.g. Airflow, Dagster, Prefect)

We Offer

Apart from a great career path and an opportunity to do good and do well, we also offer:

• Competitive package

• Flexible work arrangement

• Benefits include medical/ dental coverage and wellness programs

• Employee discounts

• Fun, co-operative, and flexible startup culture

• Weekly sharing sessions and regular social gatherings

• Excellent learning opportunities with Professional Development Sponsorship

About Bowtie

We are the first licensed virtual insurer (虛擬保險公司) in Hong Kong.

We believe that insurance is fundamentally good, and we are here to bring the good back through our passionate, innovative, and customer-centric team. 

By combining our deep domain expertise and our own proprietary modern technology, we are building one of the most iconic, category-defining health insurance companies in Asia.

We take pride in moving fast all the time and our track record in moving ahead in the game. Our digital insurance platform is also ranked #2 in the world in Sia Partners' 2023 report.

As we grow, we're always looking for highly dynamic, hands-on, and passionate talent to join our team. If you are looking for a rewarding career where you will grow together with strong talents from different backgrounds and build products and services that bring a positive impact on the lives of millions of people in Hong Kong / Asia, apply to our opening today!

Information collected will be treated in strict confidence and used solely for recruitment purposes.

The company will retain all applications no longer than 24 months of which will be destroyed thereafter.

We are an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, disability, or family status in the employment process.