Berkshire Hathaway GUARD is a mid-sized P&C insurer migrating core data and analytics to Microsoft Fabric and Power BI, with active infrastructure-as-code adoption and early RPA pilots. The hiring profile is engineering-forward (69 roles), data-focused (33 active), and claims-heavy (53 roles), matching internal pressure to improve premium accuracy, reduce claims leakage, and expand territory profitably while staying compliant with state labor law.
Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Companies, headquartered in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and rated A+ Superior by AM Best, provides Property & Casualty, Commercial, Workers' Compensation, and Excess & Surplus insurance. The company operates four main subsidiaries—AmGUARD, EastGUARD, NorGUARD, and WestGUARD—serving small to mid-market businesses. With 1,001–5,000 employees across the United States, India, and Canada, GUARD is currently undergoing operational transformation around infrastructure automation, data pipeline modernization (ELT/ETL in Microsoft Fabric), and analytics (Power BI). Key initiatives include underwriting policy updates, new property product development, workers' compensation audit workflows, and portfolio optimization to drive profitable growth.
GUARD uses Azure (compute, DevOps), SQL Server, Microsoft Fabric (ELT/ETL), Power BI (analytics), Workday Learning, SAP, and testing tools (Selenium, Playwright, Cypress). The stack is heavily Microsoft-centric; GitHub Actions and Jenkins handle CI/CD.
Current priorities include ELT/ETL pipeline development in Microsoft Fabric, Power BI semantic models, infrastructure-as-code rollout, workers' compensation audits, underwriting policy updates, new property product launches, and portfolio analysis to improve profitability and reduce claims leakage.
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