Job Description
At Sentry, we’re more than just insurance— We can offer you more than just a job, we want you to enjoy a career with us, where you’re in the driver’s seat of your career path with access to resources to help you succeed personally and professionally.
What You’ll Receive
You want a positive work/life balance. Our hybrid work model allows you to enjoy the benefits of working from home on Monday and Friday, but also provides the opportunity for team building and collaboration when working in the office on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. To help you work effectively and comfortably in both locations, we provide you with equipment to work at home and in the office.
You can enjoy a complete benefits package, including generous paid time off, 8% 401(k) match, matching charitable gift program, bonus plan based on company performance, meal stipends, associate discounts, and volunteer time off.
About Sentry
Our background: We’re one of the largest and most financially secure mutual insurance groups in the nation. More than 4,000 strong, our associates bring together diverse backgrounds, experiences, and skill sets to make Sentry who we are. We’re No. 658 on the Fortune 1000 list and named one of America’s Best Midsize Employers by Forbes. We’re in the business of helping others, and that includes the communities where we live and work. Our annual United Way campaign has raised more than $1 million for the past seven years.
Our Stevens Point campus offers a full-service fitness center, swimming pool, basketball and racquetball courts, auto center, credit union, on-site Aspirus clinic, restaurants, boutique hotel, and the award-winning SentryWorld golf course.
As a Data Product Analyst, you will work collaboratively with customers, data engineers and other Data Product Analysts to clarify requirements and problem-solve issues to ensure Sentry’s data systems are highly functional, intuitive and meet or exceed expectations. This position can be filled as a Data Product Analyst or Senior Data Product Analyst depending on the skills and qualifications of the selected candidate.
What You’ll Do
You’re a valuable contributor. As an associate at Sentry, we believe in your skills and knowledge. Your input and participation matters. You’ll have the opportunity to:
- Innovate: Through our scaled agile development process, you’ll have dedicated time to apply your creativity and innovation to drive new solutions.
- Learn: Sentry provides several resources for furthering your career and continuing your personal development, including Sentry University, LinkedIn Learning, and developer-led educational sessions and communities.
- Grow: Sentry provides many opportunities to grow in your career. Through meaningful, ongoing conversations around growth and development, we encourage all associates to take ownership in their career path.
- Contribute: As a Data Product Analyst, you’ll participate in discussions and interact with business and IT customers to fully understand their processes, use cases and work environment. Additionally, you will:
- Assess and interpret customer needs and requirements for new features and/or defects.
- Write crisp, concise user stories that clearly capture what the users need and help engineering bring them to life within our data driven applications.
- Create comprehensive test cases to validate new features and requirements. Work closely with engineering and customers to ensure the data driven application works and performs as intended. Work to anticipate and exercise consumer use cases to find hidden defects.
- Develop training and change management plans to promote user adoption and ensure smooth transition of our users and business units to new solutions.
- Understand business value and technical dependencies to define, maintain, and prioritize user stories in a team backlog with leadership.
- Lead agile teams and manage small projects taking accountability for high quality project deliverables and achieving overall objectives on time and within budget.
- Contribute to cross functional iteration planning and assists in coordinating cross team dependencies.
- Assemble an understanding of the technologies and processes used to develop our data driven applications and provide ideas and perspective on how we could do it better. Be able to explain the technical building blocks and flow of information within our systems.
- Master basic technical skills such as writing SQL queries and data consumption prototyping to enhance feature development while minimizing reliance on data engineers.
If you have experience or knowledge in one of the preferred skills listed above, we want you to consider joining the Sentry team!
How You’ll Apply
We’d love you for to join us. Please complete your online application and upload your resume on our Careers site. If you have applied with us before, you only need to provide your email address and password. If this is your first time applying with Sentry, please create an account.
If you have specific questions regarding the position, application process, or are interested in learning more about Sentry, please reach out to Katelynne Rivera, Talent Acquisition Specialist.
Qualified current H1B Visa holders are also encouraged to apply.
Get ready to own your future at Sentry. Your opportunity awaits.
Talent Acquisition Specialist
Thank you for your interest in Sentry!
Katelynne Rivera
Katelynne.Rivera@sentry.com
Equal Employment Opportunity
Sentry is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy that there be no discrimination in employment based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability, age, marital status, or sexual orientation.
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