Data Engineer

5 Star Recruitment; Princeton (NJ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a skilled professional with expertise in Azure BI solutions, data warehouse development, and ETL processes. The ideal candidate will have experience in implementing Azure Data Factory and Azure Databricks, along with a strong understanding of business rules in data extraction. Familiarity with actuarial tools and insurance data is preferred. A capacity for teamwork and decision-making under pressure is essential for this role, based in New Jersey.

Qualifications

• Experience in implementing Microsoft BI/Azure BI solutions.
• Strong understanding of BI application design and development principles.
• Experience in data extraction, transformation, and loading using ETL processes.

Responsibilities

• Develop and support Azure BI solutions.
• Implement data extraction, transformation and loading between systems.
• Work with actuarial tools and insurance data.

Skills

Experience in Microsoft BI/Azure BI solutions

Data warehouse development

ETL processes using Azure Data Factory

Strong analytical skills

Agile software development

Tools

Azure Data Factory

Azure Databricks

SQL Server Analysis Services

U-SQL

Job description

Experience in implementing Microsoft BI/Azure BI solutions like Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure Analysis Services, SQL Server Integration Services, SQL Server Reporting Services. Strong Understanding in Azure Big data technologies like Azure Data Lake Analytics, Azure Data Lake Store, Azure Data Factory and in moving the data from flat files and SQL Server using U-SQL jobs.

• Expert in data warehouse development starting from inception to implementation and ongoing support, strong understanding of BI application design and development principles using Normalization and De-Normalization techniques. Experience in developing staging zone, bronze, silver and gold layers of data
• Good knowledge in implementing various business rules for Data Extraction, Transforming and Loading (ETL) between Homogenous and Heterogeneous Systems using Azure Data Factory (ADF).
• Developed notebooks for moving data from raw to stage and then to curated zones using Databricks.
• Involved in developing complex Azure Analysis Services tabular databases and deploying the same in Microsoft azure and scheduling the cube through Azure Automation Runbook.
• Extensive experience in developing tabular and multidimensional SSAS Cubes, Aggregation, KPIs, Measures, Partitioning Cube, Data Mining Models, deploying and Processing SSAS objects.

Domain Knowledge (Preferred)

Experience with actuarial tools or insurance is preferred. The intent is familiarity with the data terminologies and the hierarchy of data in the Insurance domain, specifically in the below areas

• Familiarity with reinsurance broking data, including placements, treaty structures, client hierarchies, and renewal workflows.
• Understanding of actuarial rating inputs and outputs, including exposure and experience data, layers, tags, and program structures.
• Experience building data pipelines that support actuarial analytics, pricing tools, and downstream reporting for brokers and clients.
• Team builder with strong, analytical & interpersonal skills with good knowledge in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Proficient in technical writing.
• Experience in Agile software development and SCRUM methodology.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team to accomplish critical business objectives as well as good decision-making skills under high pressure complex scenarios