Data Engineer – Data Visualization & Data Lake

About the Role

For a large international insurance environment, we are looking for an experienced Data Engineer with strong data visualization and web application experience to support the acceleration of a global data lake initiative.

The platform provides underwriters and management with a unified portfolio view across multiple countries, enabling improved data‑driven decision‑making. The project focuses on onboarding and integrating data from various global sources, including premiums, claims, and exposure data.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement data visualization views based on product owner requirements
• Extend existing dashboards and applications with new datasets and UI features
• Improve user experience and support evolving analytical requirements
• Standardize and modularize existing code into reusable components
• Optimize SQL queries and data access performance
• Implement hotfixes and enhancements across the application stack
• Collaborate with data engineers working on the data export (gold) layer
• Occasionally support data source modifications within Scala / Spark environments

Core Skills

• Strong experience building web‑based data applications
• Experience with data visualization frameworks
• Experience with reactive programming

Technologies

• R / R‑Shiny
• SQL Server
• JavaScript
• Dplyr
• Echarts4r

Nice to Have

• Experience with Dash or Streamlit (Python visualization frameworks)
• Experience with Scala / Apache Spark
• Insurance