Tableau and Data Science - Enterprise Solutions En...

This position may be hired to either work at our local headquarters in Helena, Montana or remotely from within the United States, provided the candidate is sufficiently digitally capable from his/her location.

At Montana State Fund, serving the businesses of Montana is what we do and it’s who we are. It’s what makes us different. We partner with employers and their employees to care for those injured on the job and we champion a culture of workplace safety for our fellow Montanans.

We are looking for an expert that brings with them Tableau development expertise and also possess proven data science skills. This position will best fit a Tableau data science professional that wants to put their experience and passion for storytelling and data wrangling to work as part of the Montana State Fund IT Enterprise Applications team.

Do you enjoy the process of creating data visualizations, generating insights from them and storytelling to improve business processes ?

How about data munging to help generate insights and predictions by mashing up distinctive data sets from a Big Data Lake, generating algorithms and models using statistical analysis and machine learning?

Do you pride yourself on your excellent client and business interaction skills as well as your outstanding written and verbal communication skills?

Do you have demonstrated expertise in using Big Data, understanding data models and working effectively with data engineering and business teams? If you have general insurance experience, that is an added plus.

The IT Enterprise Applications Team provides a high level of complex technical solutions across the organization to support both internal and external customers.

This is an excellent opportunity for an IT professional with data wrangling experience to provide key contributions with a team of passionate, motivated individuals. If you want to make a difference working on engaging and dynamic challenges to facilitate Big Data analytics and use initiatives, read on to learn more about this exciting opportunity to join the Montana State Fund team!

About the Role

Independently and interdependently design and implement complex technical solutions. Apply principles of engineering to the design, development, maintenance, testing and evaluation of the enterprise solutions and systems. Provide technical leadership for highly complex business analytics or insurance products and projects, as well as, deliver superior business value to enterprise stakeholders.

What You'll Do

• Provides technical leadership for highly complex insurance products or data applications; defines, analyzes and creates solutions for projects utilizing various development methodologies. Leads matrixed project teams, insurance business SMEs and on/off shore technical experts in developing the solution design, assigns tasks to project teams, tracks progress, verifies completion of assignments according to development standards. Identifies issues / risks, escalates and reports to appropriate levels of stakeholders. (40%)
• Analyze, design and develop artifacts according to best practices, standards and specifications. (30%)
• Analyze existing systems built on MSF technologies for improvements and evaluate proposed systems for feasibility and architectural compliance. Provide systems analysis, user support, and develops program specifications and reusable components for specific business applications. (20%)
• Provide technical expertise, advice and mentoring to other IT and insurance business professionals regarding the application of complex systems analysis and design to business problems. (10%)

Key Activities

• Provide leadership on large projects spanning onsite and remote business and technical teams.
• Analyze existing systems, develop artifacts, and establish, implement and maintain specific systems, while monitoring and supervising systems performance.
• Analyze requirements for feasibility and users’ needs and design, develop, debug and unit test using MSF technologies for commercial business applications.
• Prepare business documentation and conduct user training.
• Custom design specific programs for enterprise and user needs, to support business processes, provide specific technical awareness, insight and documentation as appropriate to departments and users.
• Perform extensive functional testing of modules post-customization.
• Ensure that systems continue to function normally through maintenance and testing, execute production failure trouble shooting.
• Work with other solution design engineers, architects and other cross functional IT professionals to design tools and enhancements and write code to fulfill enterprise objectives and needs
• Liaise with business /stakeholders on project status, proposals and technical issues.
• Design and develop solutions/models as applicable, using scientific analysis and mathematical techniques to predict and measure outcome and consequences of design.
• Prepare reports or correspondence concerning project specifications, activities, or status.
• Store, retrieve, and manipulate data for analysis of capabilities and requirements, generate useful and actionable business insights.
• Complete special projects as assigned.

What You'll Need (Minimum Qualifications)

Required:

• Associate or technical degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Science or related field;

And

• 5 years of work experience that includes:
• At least 2 years of directly related work experience utilizing both of the following Montana State Fund required technologies:
• Tableau with Hive Query Language (HiveQL) or Spark SQL
• Python
• Remainder sum of required 5 years of experience (up to 3 years) can consist of the following Montana State Fund similar/related technologies:
• Power BI with Hive Query Language (HiveQL) or Spark SQL
• Qlik with Hive Query Language (HiveQL) or Spark SQL
• Looker with Hive Query Language (HiveQL) or Spark SQL
• R

Must be open to and have the ability learning other programming language(s) as necessary along with innovative and creative analytical skills to resolve design issues.

Preferred:

• Bachelor degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Science or related field.
• Minimum 3 years of directly related work experience utilizing MSF required technologies (in addition to similar technology experience mentioned above).
• Relevant technical and/or insurance certifications.