Azure Data Engineer

Location: Douglas, Isle of Man

Closing date for applications: 9th May 2025

Are you a motivated, hands-on, and innovative person, interested in working for one of the largest global insurers? Are you interested in solving complex business challenges? Then this job is definitely something for you. 

We are looking for an Azure Data Engineer to join the Zurich International Life (ZILL) team. In this role, you will: 

• Solve high impact data-related business problems in support of ZILL, which writes business in multiple markets.  
• Be part of an entrepreneurially minded data team, which is daring to challenge the status quo, 
• Further develop your hard skills by working with internal and external analytics experts.  

Your role:

As a Data Engineer, your main responsibilities will be to:  

• Design, set-up and oversee the end-to-end data pipeline for ZILL using primarily the Azure ecosystem. 
• Analyse data pipelining / ETL problems independently and assess the best data model and technology approach of how to solve them. 
• Collect, ingest, and integrate data sets from multiple countries. 
• Load transformed data into destination database. 
• Support design and maintenance of the destination data model. 
• Support design and maintenance of Power BI reports and dashboards .
• Set-up data quality monitoring checks and reports. 
• Work in close collaboration with the wider ZILL team to directly support complex use-cases and provide training to users where appropriate.  

Your key skills and experience: 

Experience required:  

• Data pipelining using Microsoft Azure toolset, particularly Azure Data Factory, Azure Storage and Databricks. 
• Strong experience with SQL, Python or other languages. 
• Familiarity with software developer toolkit (such as Git, DevOps, etc). 
• Familiarity with data governance in international environments 
• Strong problem-solving skills. 

Good to have: 

• Experience with .NET (C#). 
• Experience with SSRS and/or Power BI 
• Prior work experience in insurance or finance industry. 

Other important characteristics: 

• Can-do attitude, with a clear focus on delivering robust pipeline solutions. 
• Passion to tackle real business problems. 
• Excellent written and spoken English.  
• Excellent communication skills. 
• Good team player. 

Who are we? 

We are Zurich International Life!  
 
We support our fellow business units who provide life and savings products to markets around the world.  Based out of the Isle of Man since 1982, Zurich has built a strong reputation as a reliable, dependable yet innovative insurer and regularly receives recognition and awards from the industry. We believe in having a diverse mix of employees that reflects our customers and the communities in which we live and work. Our diversity and inclusion initiatives are shaping an environment where everyone feels welcome.  We are committed to continuous improvement, and we offer access to a comprehensive range of training and development opportunities. Zurich is passionate about supporting employees to help others by getting involved in volunteering, charitable and community actively through the Zurich Community Trust.     

This role is based in our state-of-the-art Isle of Man office alongside a further 360 employees at this location.
  
Why Zurich? 
Aside from our fantastic office space, which we demonstrate in our video, we have a great benefits and reward package.  
 

Please take a look at the video for an insight into Zurich: 

https://players.brightcove.net/5768412917001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6318953386112
 
So make a difference. Be challenged. Be inspired. Be supported, Love what you do. Work for us.