MetLife

• Analyze business requirements, create proper data solutions that meets functional and non-functional requirements
• Participate in the design of data architecture, data structure, data modeling, data transformation, storage, security model of data platform (both Hadoop and Azure Data platform)
• Guide System Analysts, Engineers, Programmers and others on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces
• Discover metadata of the source database and analyze existing business systems, including value patterns and distributions, key candidates, foreign-key candidates, data flows, and functional dependencies
• Interfaces with internal/external teams and functions to provide business solutions to meet business requirements
• Manage and control quality of BSA deliverables
• Define the methodology, project plan, resource demands, budget estimation for data solutions. 
• Manages working relationships with business and IT to ensure that the solutions are developed, managed and completed on schedule.
• Coordinates technical studies and evaluation of business needs and technological alternatives with both IT and business managers
• Provides oversight of audits and other compliance requests
• Directs, motivates and develops project staff.
• Identifies and addresses training and development needs of BSA teams
• Performs other duties as assigned or required

Requirements:

Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience 
• 10 years of experience as Business Systems Analysts or similar role in Insurance industry
• Demonstrated good leadership, strong project management skills 

Skills:

• Strong data/system analytics skills using various coding language
• Good knowledge and experience in Azure Synapse, Azure CosmosDB, Azure Function Apps, Azure ServiceBus, ADLS, Oracle, MS SQL Server, Linux, Hadoop, HDFS, HBase, Solr
• Understanding of scala/spark and related big data processing framework and tools
• Experience of PowerBI, QlikSense and other BI tools
• Proficient in SQL, data types, data structures, data modeling
• Good understanding of insurance industry, 
• Good problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills

Preferable:

• Understanding of REST API, ETL, Salesforce, stream data processing, Change Data Capture, and popular BI tools is preferred
• Understanding of Data Quality, Data Governance, Data Lineage, Master Data Management is preferred
• Experience of people management is preferred

Language:

• Japanese: Advanced (JLPT N1 equivalent)
• English: Advanced

Personality:

• Detailed and precise, able to drive alone the design and development of complex system
• Able to understand non-technical specification and transform to IT requirements
• Able to adapt to users’ needs but also assertive enough to navigate complex and demanding continuously growing environment
• Good prioritization skills and project management skills. Able to absorb and handle multiple requests at the same time
• Willing to learn new technologies and pick up challenging work
• Team player