About FWD Group
FWD Group is a pan-Asian life and health insurance business with more than 12 million customers across 10 markets, including some of the fastest-growing insurance markets in the world. The company was established in 2013 and is focused on changing the way people feel about insurance. FWD’s customer-led and digitally enabled approach aims to deliver innovative propositions, easy-to-understand products and a simpler insurance experience.
For more information, please visit www.fwd.com
For more information about FWD Hong Kong, please visit www.fwd.com.hk/.
PURPOSE
- A role to be responsible for managing and supporting the infrastructure and data architecture of Group Data Platform across different local countries
KEY ACCOUNTAIBILITIES
- Working with Group Technology to manage the infrastructure of the data platform in areas of security, performance, fault tolerance and elasticity, etc.
- Managing end-to-end data pipelines and data integration processes, both batch and real-time.
- Monitor, recommend, develop and implement ways to improve data quality including reliability, efficiency and cleanliness, and to optimize and fine-tune ETL / ELT processes.
- Recommend, execute and deliver best practices in data management and data lifecycle processes, including management of ETL / ELT processes, coding and configuration standards, error handling and notification standards, auditing standards, and data archival standards.
- Collaborate with Data Architect, Data Modeler, IT team members, SMEs, vendors and internal business stakeholders, to understand data needs, gather requirements and implement data solutions to deliver business goals.
- BAU support for any data issues and change requests, document all investigations, findings, recommendations and resolutions.
QUALIFICATIONS / EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor in IT, Computer Science or Engineering.
- At least 3-5 years of using Big Data technologies like Azure, AWS or Hadoop Big Data Solution, strongly prefer candidate with Azure Big Data technologies.
- Minimum 5 years of professional experience in data warehouse, operational data store, and large scale data architecture management in Unix or/and Windows environment.
- At least 5 years of solid hands-on support experience with streaming and batch ETL processes
- At least 3-5 years hands-on experience on Azure AKS, and AWS EKS
- Hands-on experience on real-time data streaming using Kafka/Confluent
- Hands-on data API support experience using Python/Java would be big plus.
KNOWLEDGE & TECHNICAL SKILLS
- Hands-on experience on Azure Big Data Solution such as Data Factory, Databricks, Gen2, Synapse, PowerBI
- Support experience with various of ETL/ELT frameworks, data warehousing concepts, data management framework and data lifecycle processes
- Strong knowledge in various database technologies (RDBMS, NoSQL and columnar).
- Preferably with a good understanding of data analytics and data visualization, highly prefer Power BI
- Experienced working in insurance industry will be an added advantage.
- Ability to communicate and present technical information in a clear and unambiguous manner.
- Strong ability to work independently and cooperate with diverse teams in a multiple stakeholder’s environment.
- Strong sense of work ownership, high affinity with anything data and a desire for constant improvements.
Top Skills
What We Do
FWD Group is a pan-Asian life and health insurance business with more than 12 million customers across 10 markets, including some of the fastest-growing insurance markets in the world. The company was established in 2013 and is focused on changing the way people feel about insurance. FWD’s customer-led and digitally enabled approach aims to deliver innovative propositions, easy-to-understand products and a simpler insurance experience
