Who are we?

A strategic and trusted insurance partner, Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI), provides a broad range of commercial property, casualty and specialty insurance coverages and outstanding service to customers and brokers around the world. Part of Berkshire Hathaway’s insurance operations, we bring our solutions to market with our stellar brand name, top-rated balance sheet and the expertise of our global team of professionals, who exude excellent capabilities and strong character.

We are a values-based organization where respect, integrity, excellence, collaboration, and passion define who we are and how we do business. We value diversity of backgrounds, experience and perspectives and strive to foster an inclusive environment that enables all our team members to bring their best selves to work. We are one team committed to building a culture where every teammate has the opportunity to contribute and be recognized. Want to be part of the team building the finest property, casualty, and specialty lines insurance company in the world?

Learn more about our unique culture and history.

Job Opportunity: 

Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) has an exciting opportunity for an IT professional who possesses extensive technical and delivery skill to join our Boston based Global Enterprise Data Team as a Data & Analytics Manager. This role will drive the implementation of our technical architecture and be integral to the solutioning of critical and technical efforts. Solutions will involve the integration of vendor packages and custom solutions and the candidate must possess a passion for delivering value through technology.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the development, design, implementation, maintenance and support of data warehousing, delta lake, data mart technologies and systems.
• Owns and builds collaborative and transparent relationship with aligned Enterprise function(s), providing thought leadership and strategic partnership, proactively identifying, anticipating, and shaping relevant views of data, trends, and insights to help leadership achieve their targets.
• Ensure coalition of technical architecture of the application with the enterprise technology roadmap. Establish and ensure the implementation of agreed architecture and infrastructure.
• Oversee development activity (e.g., conduct code reviews, process adherence) and provide guidance to team members, both internal and external.
• Present technical solution to our Enterprise Architecture Review Board.
• Manage data team responsible for data ecosystem and initiatives.
• Evolve data architecture and establish continuous improvements with technology landscape.
• Negotiate service level agreements with business partners, and yourself and others accountable for consistently meeting commitments.
• Liaise with process and service owners (strategy, design, transition, operations).
• Think freely to exploit technological advances that address business needs.
• Determine and provide appropriate level and type of analytics and insights to make sound financial decisions.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• At least 15 years of relevant leadership experience preferred
• Diverse technical background with desire and ability to be hands on throughout the project lifecycle.
• Excellent observation and analytical skills, with a keen attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, comfortable liaising with remote users and vendors.
• Adept and eager to becoming knowledgeable in the business use of the systems platform implemented.
• Understanding of the Property & Casualty Insurance industry is desirable.
• Independently motivated with a “team player” mentality with an ability to offer flexibility while maintaining focus on solution delivery.
• Experience supervising teams of local and off-shore IT development resources.

BHSI Offers:

• A competitive package and exciting growth opportunities for career-oriented teammates
• A dynamic, action oriented and thoughtful environment centered on always doing the right thing for our customers, teammates, and our other stakeholders
• A purposely non-bureaucratic organization that embraces simplicity over complexity and emphasizes individual excellence in a team framework

NOTE: Compensation will be commensurate with experience. This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Team Member may perform other related duties as negotiated to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.