About The Role

Team – Data Engineering & BI

Working Pattern - Hybrid – 2 days per week in the Vitality Bournemouth Office. Full time, 35 hours per week. 

What this role is all about:

Maintaining Vitality’s data assets is a critical function that helps to improve the way choices are made and customers are served. Vitality relies on its data assets to engineer new products, improve current products, and create better ways of providing value to customers.

You will lead and manage activities relating to collation, interpretation and mapping of business requirements to existing data structures, and identify gaps.

Data analysis is a core component of the role, where reconciliations & summarisations are required to assist with interpretation and the enhancement of business understanding.

Key Actions

Define and document analytics and reporting data requirements & user stories for new data and reporting assets across the Data & Information Services department. This is including BI, Data Engineering and Machine Learning functions.

Assess impacts and validate changes to existing assets.

Gathering requirements is key to the role, and will entail using multiple methods such as brainstorming, requirement workshops and focus groups. All requirements will need to be validated and thoroughly documented. Monitoring and amending requirements over time will be important to ensure deliverables match the changing nature of business needs.

Engage and communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels of the business across Vitality group; to take on projects and deliverables from inception to completion. Multiple projects and deliverables will be ongoing concurrently; the capability to prioritise effort & resource will be required.

Get hands-on with testing and production proving to ensure deliverables meet the business need & cover off all requirements submitted. This will include presentations and show & tells sessions.

Full responsibility for set-up, oversight, monitoring and issue resolution of automated report delivery. This will include monthly scheduled reports and ad-hoc outputs.

 1st line support for data queries, incorporating triaging of tickets raised and data investigations work to establish cause & extent of issues identified.

Quickly develop a robust working understanding and insight into the Vitality business, data and analytics community to ensure changes are managed appropriately and effectively.Essential Skills needed to fulfil this role:

Enhanced experience in data management or business intelligence with a working knowledge of requirements analysis best practise and the systems development life cycle

Ability to interpret internal or external requirements & issues and recommends solutions

Prior technical experience on data profiling and data analysis using sql technology (e.g. Microsoft, Oracle)

Advanced Excel knowledge, including macros, pivots, complex formula, graphical summarisation & reporting.

Excellent investigative, analytical and logical problem solving skills

Good facilitation skills and experience working with a broad set of stakeholders/partners in Business and ITSo, what’s in it for you?

Bonus Schemes – A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance

A pension of up to 12%– We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary

Our award-winning Vitality health insurance – With its own set of rewards and benefits

Life Assurance – Four times annual salaryThese are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page. 

Who We Are

At Vitality, everything we do is driven by our core purpose. To make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives through our market-leading health and life insurance and the Vitality Programme. We empower our members to take control of their wellness and develop long-term healthy habits.

Diversity & Inclusion

We’re committed to diversity and inclusion because it’s good for our employees, for our business, and for society. To learn more please visit our Careers page.

Vitality’s approach to sustainability

Vitality is a business that drives positive change. We reward people for making and sustaining healthier choices. But healthy people also need a healthy environment. To learn more please visit our Careers page.

About The Company

Vitality is an award-winning, dynamic and vibrant financial services provider, with a ground-breaking vision for the future, where individuals are enabled to succeed and are rewarded and recognised for their contribution to our business. We’re the UK insurer and investment provider that rewards people for positive lifestyle choices – a key element of our Shared-value model. With 1.4m UK members and more than 25m globally, we’re out to make the world a healthier, happier place. This applies as much to our people as it does to our members. 

Working for Vitality, you'll experience an exciting mix of creativity and innovation, within a framework of challenging objectives and a passion for delivering the best. We think work should be fun and sociable, and we want our people to get the most out of every day. Our people are chosen for their skills, knowledge, enthusiasm and attitude but above all, their belief that anything can be achieved. Wherever possible, we will consider a variety of working options to suit your lifestyle, whether that be hybrid home/office working, flexible working and part or full time employment. It’s what we call offering shared values, because a healthy happy team is good for us, good for our members and good for you. 

We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications. If you are interested, please submit your application as soon as possible