Senior Underwriting Data Analyst (SQL) - (12 month FTC)

About us: Chaucer is a leading insurance group at Lloyd's, the world's specialist insurance market. We help protect industries around the world from the risks they face. Our customers include major airlines, energy companies, shipping groups, global manufacturers and property groups. Our headquarters are in London, and we have international offices in Copenhagen, Miami, Dubai and Singapore to be closer to our clients across the world. To learn more about us please visit our website www.chaucergroup.com

Job Profile Summary We are seeking an experienced Senior Underwriting Data Analyst with expertise in data analysis across the underwriting journey within the London Market / Commercial & Specialty Insurance domain. We are open to actuaries or insurance operations people who wish to make a change. As a Senior Underwriting Data Analyst , you will play a critical role in enabling Chaucer’s Transformation Office and supporting the rollout of the new data platform. You will be responsible for shaping and prioritising data use cases that deliver measurable business value, working across key underwriting touchpoints such as submission insights, automated triage, and tooling enhancement. You will work closely with the Underwriting Pillar within the Transformation Office to support data-driven decision-making and operational efficiency. This role acts as a strategic interface between underwriting stakeholders and data delivery teams, ensuring that platform outputs are actionable, impactful, and continuously evolving.

Key Responsibilities

• Underwriting Data Analysis & Insight Design
• Conduct hands-on analysis across the underwriting journey, including submission volumes, triage outcomes, quote activity, and post-bind performance.
• Translate underwriting needs into clear analytical requirements for the Data Platform and Analytics teams to develop scalable, repeatable insights.
• Build prototypes and exploratory analyses to validate use cases and guide development.
• Collaboration with Data Platform & Analytics Teams
• Work closely with Data Engineering and Analytics teams to define data structures, metrics, and visualisation requirements.
• Provide detailed specifications and feedback to ensure data products meet underwriting needs and are embedded into tooling and workflows.
• Participate in sprint planning and backlog grooming to prioritise underwriting-related data work.
• Enablement of Underwriting Tooling & Data Flows
• Partner with the architecture team to support data analysis and ensure robust, scalable data flows are designed and implemented to enable new and enhanced underwriting tools.
• Collaborate with technical teams to align data sources, ingestion logic, and transformation processes with underwriting use cases, ensuring seamless integration into the data platform.
• Validate data integration and performance to confirm that tooling outputs are accurate, timely, and fit for underwriting decision-making and operational use.
• Strategic Partnership & Alignment
• Collaborate with the Pricing team to ensure data consistency and shared understanding across underwriting and pricing domains.
• Partner with the Underwriting Pillar within the Transformation Office to support strategic initiatives through data.
• Contribute to the delivery of data-driven change programmes by providing analytical input and tooling support.
• Data Quality & Governance
• Identify and resolve data quality issues impacting underwriting analysis and tooling.
• Contribute to metadata, documentation, and lineage tracking for underwriting datasets.
• Ensure compliance with Chaucer’s data governance standards and support continuous improvement of data assets.

Skills and Competencie s

• Essential:Excellent understanding of underwriting processes and terminology within the London Market or Commercial & Specialty Insurance.
• A good understanding of data platforms, data transformation, and reporting ecosystems.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to navigate complex business and technical landscapes.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business needs into technical requirements and product outcomes.
• Comfortable working in agile or iterative delivery environments.
• Familiarity with data governance, data quality, and modern data technologie s is a pl us.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree; industry certifications in business analysis or insurance domain preferred.

Why Join Chaucer? Chaucer is a leading global insurer at Lloyd’s, helping industries worldwide manage risk—from airlines to energy, shipping, manufacturing, and property. Headquartered in London, with offices in Copenhagen, Miami, Dubai, and Singapore, we’re close to our clients wherever they are. We’ve doubled our Gross Written Premiums from $1.4bn in 2019 to $2.7bn in 2023—and are on track to exceed $3bn in 2024. Backed by strong teams, platforms, and client relationships, Chaucer is poised for continued success. We offer: A flexible hybrid work model that supports individual and team needs. A diverse, inclusive culture that values people for who they are. Extensive, non-contributory benefits, including medical, life, and pension cover, flexible holidays, and wellbeing support.