Our Mission
Happy, healthy pets, make for happy, healthy people. We aim to strengthen the unique bond between pets and their parents through our innovative products and services, enabled by brilliant colleagues who embody our values of performance, exploration, togetherness, and sustainability.
Our Journey
In 2016 we set out to focus entirely on pet insurance with pets and families at the centre of our business strategy and in 2017 launched a new brand, EveryPaw. To offer our customers a choice of insurance options for their pets, we also focused on finding the right partners to support our growth ambition and our first big partnerships with Sainsbury and Argos, went live in 2019. Many talented colleagues have joined us, and we now partner with a number of fantastic brands across the retail, charity and financial services sectors. We’ve developed new capabilities, new platforms and new services specifically for our partners to achieve the best customer experience. Over the last 6 years, the number of pet parents we support has grown five-fold to over half a million in 2023. Together we’ve built the leading Pet Partnership business in the UK and are proud to support and engage pet parents every day to ensure happy and healthy pets.
Our ambition
We’re delivering long-term success and growth through empowerment and strong collaboration focusing on our two own brands; EveryPaw and Pet Protect and building great relationships with our partners to provide market leading products, innovative new services, simplicity and a great customer experience. Our goal is to support over 1 million pet parents by the end of 2026. Pinnacle Pet UK provides great opportunities for those who love pets, want to learn, be challenged and develop. As a team, we are focused on performance and great customer outcomes. We support each other to achieve our individual and collective goals and have a culture where everyone can be authentic, diverse and innovative and truly be the best version of themselves supporting what we do best – pets.
We are looking for an experienced Polaris ProductWriter developer to support the continuing growth of our Pet Insurance pricing and underwriting capacity.
For this role within the Rating Engine team - which sits within the wider Actuarial department - we are looking for a candidate with at least 2 years’ experience developing rating engine schemes for personal lines insurance using the ProductWriter Toolkit.
This is a hybrid-working role with an expectation of at least 1 day a week in the office.
Key Responsibilities
* To support the deployment of regular price change requests received from our Pricing Actuaries
* To maintain and develop the rating engine testing functionality
* To support the development and integration of ProductWriter tools with Radar pricing models
* To support the design and development of new ProductWriter scheme enhancements across our growing Pet Insurance portfolio.
* To ensure the continued reconciliation of Radar outputs with rating engine calculations
* To produce Technical Specification and Test Plan Documents relating to development work.
* To provide support as required to all business areas as part of wider projects that have a dependency upon rating functionality.
* To investigate and debug any premium/rating related incidents or queries
* Understanding of best practice design and coding principles.
* A logical aptitude, methodical approach to their work and with strong problem-solving skills.
* Familiarity with ETL tools such as SAS, SQL and Excel
* Proficient in writing both technical and business focused documentation.
* The ability to cater their communication style between non-technical and technical employees.
* Comfortable working within a dynamic, fast paced, working environment.
* Will actively promote professional working relationships with internal departments.
* Embraces opportunities to develop and learn new skills.
Successful Candidates Will Have
Essential skills:
* Working experience in personal lines developing and testing ProductWriter rating engine schemes
* An interest/understanding of general insurance.
* Understanding of XML data structures.
* Understanding and experience of Regression, UAT, and Batch testing processes
* Excellent written and spoken communication skills
Desired skills:
* Demonstrable experience in the integration of Radar projects with ProductWriter or equivalent rating engine software such as Earnix, Guidewire, Ratabase etc
* Experience in process design and optimisation
* A working knowledge of insurance pricing techniques
Qualifications:
* Computer Science or IT related Degree or Certificate of Higher Education.
* 5 A-C Grade GCSEs or equivalent including Mathematics and English Language.
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