Job Summary:
National Life Group is one of America’s fastest-growing insurance companies, focused on providing stability to families since 1848. The Senior Analyst role is pivotal in leading data-driven initiatives, particularly for a large-scale ERP implementation and supporting finance data migrations to cloud platforms.
Responsibilities:
• Oversee project scope and prioritization from discovery to delivery of data products, especially in the finance data domain.
• Develop and manage a thoughtful and integrated project roadmap and backlog.
• Present updates on incremental project deliveries to business partners and leadership audiences.
• Lead the daily work of a cross-functional project team including data engineers, data architects, quality engineers, project managers, and business analysts.
• Manage timelines, costs, resources, and scope as key measures of success.
• Build team relationships to foster growth and mentorship.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams (technical and non-technical) to understand business requirements, prioritize tasks, and deliver high-value data and analytics products.
• Manage stakeholder relationships to effectively balance business needs with technical capabilities.
• Collaborate with non-technical stakeholders to define project needs and effectively translate the product vision to technical teams.
• Provide strategic guidance to business partners throughout the data lifecycle to promote a data-driven decision-making culture.
• Contribute to the larger Data Team vision to enable data as a strategic asset across the organization.
• Implement and champion data governance practices throughout projects to ensure data integrity, quality, and reliability across all data product deliveries.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor's degree in Math, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field.
• 10+ years of combined post-secondary education and relevant work experience, with a focus on product management, data governance, data management, or data analytics.
• 8+ years of hands-on experience leading and executing enterprise projects in a product owner/manager role, with a proven track record of delivering on time, on budget, in scope, and with high adoption of final product. Data cloud migration experience is a plus.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts and solutions to non-technical audiences clearly and effectively.
• Proven ability to work across cross-functionally across departments and communicate with various stakeholders to gather requirements and drive project success.
• Analytical mindset with experience in solving complex problems and deriving effective solutions. Ability to independently navigate ambiguity in decision making.
Preferred:
• Prior involvement in large-scale ERP transformations, especially managing data dependencies, cross-functional workflows, and other supporting data and reporting activities.
• Hands-on experience with Databricks or other cloud-based data analytics platforms (e.g., Snowflake, AWS Redshift).
• Experience in data modeling and designing data structures to optimize business insights and value.
• Experience using business intelligence tools like Tableau and Alteryx for data visualization and analysis.
• Proficiency in coding languages such as SQL, Python, Pyspark, etc.
Company:
National Life Group offers life insurance, and annuity products to help individuals, families and businesses pursue financial needs. Founded in 2006, the company is headquartered in Montpelier, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.