AI Engineer Lead

Progressive Insurance; United States; Remote; USD 148,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match up to 6%

Medical, dental & vision insurance

Wellness & mental health programs

Health savings & spending accounts

Paid time off and parental leave

Career development & tuition support

Diverse and inclusive culture

Job summary

Progressive Insurance is seeking an AI data engineer lead to partner with CLTG in shaping data and AI capabilities across the Services Platform. You’ll guide architecture, data foundations, and AI-enabled solutions while aligning business and tech teams for measurable outcomes.

The role emphasizes responsible AI, data governance, and enterprise-scale data platforms in a remote US-based work setup. Excellent communication and cross-functional leadership are essential.

Qualifications

• Designing and implementing modern data architectures and AI-ready data foundations.
• Experience integrating AI into enterprise apps and processes.
• Strong understanding of data governance, quality, and responsible AI practices.

Responsibilities

• Define how data and AI capabilities are designed, integrated, and scaled across CLTG.
• Collaborate with business leaders, architects, and engineers to deliver data-driven solutions.
• Advise on architecture standards, reusable patterns, and AI strategy alignment.

Skills

AI data architectures

Data governance

Data quality

Vector databases

Semantic models

Responsible AI practices

Cross-functional leadership

Consulting & communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree or higher in IT or related field

6+ years related work experience in software design

Tools

Microsoft Azure AI

Azure OpenAI

Microsoft Fabric

Databricks

Amazon Bedrock

LLM APIs

Cloud platforms

Job description

Progressive is dedicated to helping employees move forward and live fully in their careers. Your journey has already begun.

As an AI data engineer lead serving as a strategic technology partner for Commercial Lines Technology Group (CLTG) Services Platform, you'll help define how data and AI capabilities are designed, integrated, and scaled across CLTG. You'll partner with business leaders, architects, engineers, and enterprise technology teams to develop data-driven solutions that enable advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, and intelligent applications. In this role, you'll serve as a trusted advisor on the intersection of data, AI, and business capabilities. You'll help teams design modern data architectures, establish scalable data foundations, and incorporate AI capabilities into new and existing applications. You'll work closely with enterprise partners and business collaborators to identify opportunities, evaluate solution approaches, and guide implementation strategies that deliver measurable business value. You'll also champion best practices for data management, architecture, and responsible AI adoption while helping teams build resilient, scalable solutions that support current and future business needs. You'll influence technical direction, establish reusable patterns and frameworks, and help drive alignment across business and technology organizations.

This is remote position for U.S. based work only.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in an Information Technology discipline or related field of study and minimum of five years of work experience designing, programming, and supporting software programs or applications.
• In lieu of degree, minimum of six years related work experience designing, programming, and supporting software programs or applications may be accepted.

Preferred Skills

• Experience designing and implementing modern data architectures and enterprise data platforms, including data lakes, data warehouses, streaming platforms, and cloud-native data solutions.
• Strong understanding of AI-ready data foundations, including data quality, retrieval-augmented generation, vector databases, metadata management, semantic models, data governance, and responsible AI practices.
• Experience integrating AI capabilities into enterprise applications, business processes, and customer experiences using technologies such as Microsoft Azure AI, Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Amazon Bedrock, enterprise LLM APIs, and modern cloud platforms.
• Ability to define enterprise data and AI strategies, data models, integration patterns, architectural standards, reusable frameworks, and reference architectures while balancing business needs, technical constraints, security, risk, and scalability.
• Strong consulting, communication, influencing, and cross-functional solution leadership skills, including experience evaluating and prioritizing data and AI use cases and aligning business, architecture, engineering, security, and governance teams around measurable outcomes.

Compensation

• $148,000 - $164,800/year
• Gainshare annual cash incentive payment up to 40% of your eligible earnings based on company performance

Benefits

• 401(k) with dollar-for-dollar company match up to 6%
• Medical, dental & vision, including free preventative care
• Wellness & mental health programs
• Health care flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, & life insurance
• Paid time off, including volunteer time off
• Paid & unpaid sick leave where applicable, as well as short & long-term disability
• Parental & family leave; military leave & pay
• Diverse, inclusive & welcoming culture with Employee Resource Groups
• Career development & tuition assistance
• Onsite gym & healthcare at large locations

Energage recognizes Progressive as a 2026 Top Workplace for: Innovation, Purposes & Values, Work-Life Flexibility, Compensation & Benefits, and Leadership.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Sponsorship for work authorization for foreign national candidates is not available for this position. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. without the need or potential need, of current or future sponsorship for employment. Progressive does not hire candidates with (e.g., F-1 CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT, H-1B, O-1, E-3, TN) statuses for this role.

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