Data Engineer II (dbt, AWS)

Travelers Canada; Hartford (CT); On-site; USD 127,000 - 209,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

401(k) match

Pension Plan

Paid Time Off

Wellness Program

Volunteer Encouragement

Job summary

Travelers is hiring a Data Engineer to build and operationalize data solutions that support AI, ML and BI initiatives. You will design ETL pipelines, transform data, and help deliver analytics across the enterprise.

Ideal candidates will have extensive experience with AWS services, data modeling (star/snowflake), and data governance, partnering with teams to ensure quality and security of data assets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related STEM field or equivalent experience.
• At least 8 years of data engineering experience with ETL pipelines.
• Experience designing and implementing data solutions for AI/ML and BI.

Responsibilities

• Build and operationalize complex data solutions and data cleansing strategies.
• Design and implement data pipelines and transformations.
• Collaborate across teams to deliver analytics products and educate users.
• Ensure data governance, security and quality across platforms.

Skills

ETL pipelines

AWS cloud services

Data modeling

Data governance

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or STEM

Tools

dbt

AWS services

S3/IAM/Lambda

Job description

Who Are We?

Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That’s the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 170 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.

Compensation Overview

The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.

Salary Range $126,500.00 - $208,700.00

Target Openings 1

What Is the Opportunity?

Travelers Data Engineering team constructs pipelines that contextualize and provide easy access to data by the entire enterprise. As a Data Engineer, you will play a key role in growing and transforming our analytics landscape. In addition to your strong analytical mind, you will bring your inquisitive attitude and ability to translate stories found in data by leveraging a variety of data programming techniques. You will leverage your ability to design, build and deploy data solutions that capture, explore, transform, and utilize data to support Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and business intelligence/insights.

What Will You Do?

• Build and operationalize complex data solutions, correct problems, apply transformations, and recommending data cleansing/quality solutions.
• Design complex data solutions.
• Perform analysis of complex sources to determine value and use and recommend data to include in analytical processes.
• Incorporate core data management competencies including data governance, data security and data quality.
• Collaborate within and across teams to support delivery and educate end users on complex data products/analytic environment.
• Perform data and system analysis, assessment and resolution for complex defects and incidents and correct as appropriate.
• Test data movement, transformation code, and data components.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Eight years of relevant experience.
• Proven experience building ETL pipelines using tools such as AWS, dbt or any other ETL tool.
• Understanding of AWS cloud services and data architecture patterns (S3, IAM, Lambda, CloudWatch).
• Experience with data modeling techniques (star/snowflake schema) and data warehouse design principles.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Ab Initio for enterprise-scale ETL development is a plus.
• Strong delivery skills including the ability to determine the software design strategy and methodology to be used for efforts, use automated tests, analysis, and informed feedback loops to ensure the quality and production readiness of work before release, monitor the health of work efforts and that of adjacent systems.
• Strong problem solver who utilizes data and proofs of concepts to find creative solutions to difficult problems involving a significant number of factors with broad implications, reflects on solutions, measures impact, and uses that information to ideate and optimize.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to develop business partnerships, describe technology concepts in ways the business can understand, document initiatives in a concise and clear manner, and empathetically and attentively listen to other thoughts and ideas.

What is a Must Have?

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, related STEM field, or its equivalent in education and/or work experience.
• 4 additional years of data engineering experience.

What Is in It for You?

• Health Insurance: Employees and their eligible family members – including spouses, domestic partners, and children – are eligible for coverage from the first day of employment.
• Retirement: Travelers matches your 401(k) contributions dollar-for-dollar up to your first 5% of eligible pay, subject to an annual maximum. If you have student loan debt, you can enroll in the Paying it Forward Savings Program. When you make a payment toward your student loan, Travelers will make an annual contribution into your 401(k) account. You are also eligible for a Pension Plan that is 100% funded by Travelers.
• Paid Time Off: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 20 days Paid Time Off annually, plus nine paid company Holidays.
• Wellness Program: The Travelers wellness program is comprised of tools, discounts and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals and caregiving needs. In addition, our mental health program provides access to free professional counseling services, health coaching and other resources to support your daily life needs.
• Volunteer Encouragement: We have a deep commitment to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards program that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice.

Employment Practices

Travelers is an equal opportunity employer. We value the unique abilities and talents each individual brings to our organization and recognize that we benefit in numerous ways from our differences. In accordance with local law, candidates seeking employment in Colorado are not required to disclose dates of attendance at or graduation from educational institutions. If you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email so we may assist you.

Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting.

To learn more about our comprehensive benefit programs please visit http://careers.travelers.com/life-at-travelers/benefits/.

Travelers has more than 30,000 employees in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Ireland.

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