\nAbout Us:\n\n\nZensurance is redefining commercial insurance for Canadian businesses. \n\n\nAs a leading InsurTech, we make getting the right coverage simple, fast, and accessible through a digital-first experience. Our platform combines advanced technology with deep industry expertise to deliver tailored insurance solutions that help businesses thrive.\n\n\nZensurance has been recognized for its rapid growth and industry impact:\n\n\n✅ Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 (2023, 2024)\n✅ Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 (2024)\n✅ Top Insurance Employers (2022)\n\n\nAt Zensurance, we value ownership, collaboration, and innovation. Our team thrives on solving complex challenges, challenging the status quo, and making a real impact in an industry ready for change. \n\n\nIf you're looking to build something meaningful in a fast-growing, customer-focused company, we’d love to hear from you!\n\n\nThe role:\n\n\nWe are looking for a Tech Lead, Data to join our Data Team! This is a mid-level Subject-Matter-Expert position that leverages a significant technical background to guide the Data Team’s technical strategy in accordance with the department’s culture of iterative, autonomous development and deployment. With a keen focus on security and scalability concerns, you will work closely with our Product Managers, Data Team Lead, and Staff Developers to design and implement the systems and processes that enable Zensurance to effectively harness our data in growing the business.\n\n\nAs an individual contributor and a subject-matter-expert, you will coach and mentor peers or professional-level developers, and assist the Engineering Leadership Team with employee training and development to continuously enhance the team's technical capabilities and delivery excellence.\n\n\nThis is a remote-first role within the GTA. #LI-Remote\n\n\n\nResponsibilities:\n* Collaborate with project stakeholders and the Data team to design, build and implement scalable, user-friendly data products using Snowflake, dbt, and Looker.\n* Lead the Data team in planning for and accommodating large migrations in upstream sources systems.\n* Collaborate with Product Management to examine, adjust and break down roadmap items into epics, and break down epics into discreet, actionable, appropriately sized tickets in the team’s backlog.\n* Oversee the planning and deployment of advanced data products (machine learning models, LLM powered applications)\n* Provide a technical perspective on organizational objectives within the team’s scope of activities. Analyze requirements, identify areas of concern, and provide recommendations based on extensive technical background.\n* Using POC models, design and implement systems and infrastructure in accordance with the team’s vision and culture.\n* Adhere to the organization's security strategy using a security-first mindset\n* Discuss various strategies and architecture, and highlight trade-offs for potential solutions.\n* Perform code reviews, ensure pull requests accurately reflect the acceptance criteria of the tickets they address.\n* Use quality metrics to identify gaps in testing strategy. Work with teams to recommend solutions that are in accordance with accepted testing frameworks.\n* Define and prioritize areas of technical debt and bugs, take into consideration outcomes of the incident management process, and address them with the team.\n* Foster a culture of iterative deployability with awareness of cycle time and failure rates.\n* Coach and mentor the Data team, work to expand their technical knowledge and skills.\n* Use a systematic approach to debugging to diagnose issues within the application.\n* Write unit tests as well as higher-level tests to ensure application quality and stability.\n* Consistently produce production-ready code that is easily testable, easily understandable, and accounts for edge cases and errors, using comments and other documentation strategies where appropriate.\n* Follow Agile practices, suggest improvements, and participate in team events.\n* Develop a strong understanding of the company’s goals and initiatives, help the engineering team deliver on those goals/initiatives.\n* Ensure technical standards like accessibility, performance, security, maintainability, functional correctness, operability and observability are observed in the modules developed and maintained by the team.\n* Document decisions, research and guides to foster and build a culture of continuous learning and continuous improvement.\n* Perform other duties as assigned.\n\n\n\nRequirements:\n* University degree or college diploma in a recognized technical, vocational or academic program (preferably in Engineering or Computer Science) or equivalent work experience.\n* 7+ years building and supporting user facing data applications.\n* 5+ building and maintaining data pipelines and ETL systems with Python.\n* 5+ years data modelling with SQL. \n* 3+ years developing and deploying machine learning models.\n* 3+ years orchestration experience with Kubernetes, Airflow.\n* 2+ years designing scalable and distributed systems.\n* 2+ years using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.\n* 2+ years experience and experimentation with LLMs (prompt engineering, fine tuning).\n* 2+ Years of experience coaching and mentoring data analysts, data engineers, and data scientists.\n* Experience implementing secure data practices to adhere to compliance standards.\n* Extensive experience with the Scrum framework and Agile methodologies.\n* Familiarity with goal setting frameworks such as OKRs.\n* Experience with MongoDB, dbt, Snowflake, Segment, and Looker.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout our Engineering Team: \n\n\nOur fully remote engineering team fosters a learning culture that encourages professional development. Some of the highlights of the team environment include: \n\n\n• Approachable, a supportive leadership team with extensive technical experience and ability.\n• Training and professional development budgets.\n• Knowledge sharing through power-ups.\n• Learning events and book clubs that help the team develop their skills and create a safe, supportive environment.\n• Twice-annual hackathons that provide opportunities to explore interests and practice new technical skills.\n• Opportunities to share your knowledge and experience and mentor others.\n\n\nIn addition, we provide amazing opportunities for career advancement. We provide well-defined and documented career progression paths to our engineering team members that provide clear expectations and requirements for advancement in our fast-growing environment. \n\n\nAs we scale our team, you'll have the opportunity to work on challenging projects using a modern tech stack and cutting-edge systems, including microservices and micro-frontends, with industry-leading tools such as NodeJS, React, TypeScript, Kafka, and more. \n\n\nBenefits & Perks at Zensurance:\n\n\nAt Zensurance, we know that when our people thrive, so does our business. That’s why we offer a flexible, people-first work environment designed to support your well-being, growth, and success.\n\n\n💻 Work Your Way\n\n\n• Remote-first setup for added flexibility \n• Home office allowance to create a comfortable workspace\n• Top-tier tech: "Office in a box" with all necessary tech equipment\n• Half days before public holidays: Enjoy half days before long weekends\n\n\n❤️ Your Health, Your Way\n\n\n• Flexible health and dental plans for families, including mental health support\n• Health & personal spending accounts to invest in wellness your way\n• Parental leave top-up, because family comes first\n\n\n🚀 Investing in Your Growth\n\n\n• Education assistance reimbursement for courses, conferences, books, and memberships\n• Opportunities to learn from industry experts and grow your career\n\n\n🤝 Staying Connected\n\n\n• Weekly Friday huddles to share updates and connect across teams\n• Virtual & in-person team-building events to strengthen our culture\n\n\nWe’re building something special. Come be a part of it!\n\n\nWho We Are:\n\n\nBusiness is hard work, but insurance doesn’t have to be!\n\n\nWe empower business owners with simple, tech-driven insurance solutions through our online platform. \n\n\nOur success is fueled by our team-oriented culture and four core values:\n\n\nDELIVER – We set ambitious goals and achieve them.\nINCLUDE – We foster an open and safe space for all.\nINTEGRITY – We do what’s right.\nINVENT – We create straightforward, innovative solutions.\n\n\nDiversity & Inclusion:\n\n\nZensurance celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and provide accommodations throughout the hiring process. If you need support, let us know, we’re here to help.\n\n\nThank You!\n\n\nWe review every application with care to find the best fit for our team.\n\n\nWhile we may take a little time to get back to you due to the high volume of applications we receive, know that a real human (not a bot!) is reviewing yours. We appreciate your patience and can't wait to learn more about you!\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Testing and Scrum jobs that are similar:\n\n $80,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nToronto, ON

Operational Data Engineer - Ab Initio & Snowflake\nLondon\n\nWe have a great opportunity for an Operations Engineer to join our Data Strategy and Operations team in London. This role will undertake Operational duties as well as pick up support for our operations applications.\n\nThe Engineer is required to work within the Operations team with the successful applicant responsible for the operation and support of the Business Intelligence\n\nPlatform. They will be required to fit into a highly skilled team and work with limited supervision, under their own initiative.\n\nThe role is based in our London office, reporting to our Technical Engineering Manager. Currently the team is working in a flexible manner allowing for some remote working. This team provides business intelligence services for various global business units associated with Sony Interactive Entertainment.\nWhat you'll be doing:\n\n\n* Provide 1st/2nd line support for the Production data processing platform, including response to and resolution of any failures, maintenance or upgrades\n\n* Proactive monitoring and troubleshooting of the platform\n\n* Undertake production releases into the platform\n\n* Ability to identify and automate manual tasks where you can make time or cost savings\n\n* Conduct code peer reviews with particular emphasis on operational aspects\n\n* Configuration management of code, covering versioning, deployments and building of tags\n\n* Investigation, management and prioritisation of any incidents or queries raised\n\n* Perform impact analysis, identifying ways to make operational improvements and make code changes to improve resilience or efficiency\n\n* Evaluate new capabilities built by vendors through PoC's or pilot projects\n\n* Liaise with data providers\n\n* Communication with end users and explanation of technical terms and concepts\n\n* Work with Scrum Masters, Developers and Product Owners to develop ideas and give updates on work\n\n* Acting as the first line advisory and support for end users on ‘How-to’ questions\n\n* Liaising with vendor with follow up on technical issues\n\n\n\nWhat we're looking for:\n\n\n* 2+ years experience in UNIX, including shell scripting, admin and utilities.\n\n* Skilled in scripting (Python, Bash)\n\n* Skilled in Linux and comfortable in using command line\n\n* Understand ETL concepts with 2-3 years proven experience with an ETL tool (Ab-Initio preferred)\n\n* Demonstrable experience working on and supporting large-scale complex data processing platforms\n\n* Experience in working with SQL and large data volumes\n\n* Understanding of other data processing technologies and knowledge of data warehouse appliances, e.g. Snowflake (preferred)\n\n* Undertaking Production environment releases\n\n* Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving ability\n\n* Interpersonal skills including presentation, negotiating, conflict resolution, etc\n\n* Strong communication skills\n\n* Proven abilities to work creatively and analytical in a problem-solving environment\n\n* Experience in a similar role, with proven expertise gained in complicated, business critical projects\n\n* Strong can-do attitude with an appetite for learning and developing further\n\n* English: Fluent\n\n\n\nDesirable:\n\n\n* Experience using AWS Cloud technology\n\n* Knowledge of business intelligence reporting suites\n\n* Appreciation of emerging and newer technologies\n\n* 1-2 years proven experience in using Airflow\n\n* Knowledge of JIRA and AGILE working practices\n\n* Knowledge of Jenkins\n\n* Knowledge of data science tools and techniques\n\n* Other programming languages\n\n\n\nBenefits:\n\n\n* Discretionary bonus opportunity\n\n* Hybrid Working (within Flexmodes)\n\n* Private Medical Insurance\n\n* Dental Scheme\n\n* 25 days holiday per year\n\n* On Site Gym\n\n* Subsidised Café\n\n* Free soft drinks\n\n* On site bar\n\n* Access to cycle garage and showers\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Cloud, Engineer and Linux jobs that are similar:\n\n $40,000 — $65,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nLondon, England, United Kingdom