Director, AI Data Engineering for Actuarial Analytics

The Hartford; Hartford (CT); Hybrid; USD 156,000 - 234,000; Full time

Job summary

The Hartford is seeking a Director of AI Data Engineering to lead a cross-functional team delivering governed AI-enabled data products, semantic layers, and analytic-ready datasets for actuarial analytics and business decision making.

You will drive Snowflake-based pipelines, data governance, and cloud data platforms while partnering with actuaries, data scientists, analytics, IT, and business leaders in Hartford and nearby hubs in a hybrid setup.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years in data engineering or analytics delivery.
• 3+ years supporting actuarial, insurance, pricing, reserving, modeling, underwriting, portfolio management, or financial analytics use cases.
• Mastery level data engineering and architecture skills, including data warehouse, data integration, data lakes, data domains, data products, BI, and cloud tech with data governance.
• Technical expertise in LLMs, AI platforms, prompt engineering, LLM optimization, RAG architectures and vector databases (Vertex AI, Postgres, OpenSearch, Pinecone).
• Experience enabling AI for analytics use cases, including verified analytic agents and governance of knowledge bases.

Responsibilities

• Lead execution of a large Data and Analytics portfolio.
• Modernize legacy data and analytics ecosystems using Cloud and AI.
• Design data architectures aligned with enterprise standards for Data, AI and Analytics.
• Oversee Snowflake-based pipelines, transformations, validations, and analytics.
• Build and mentor a high-performing cross-functional team.

Skills

Data engineering

Actuarial analytics

LLMs

Prompt engineering

RAG architectures

Snowflake

Cloud data engineering

Data governance

Tools

Vertex AI

Postgres

OpenSearch

Pinecone

Snowflake

Job description

The Hartford is seeking a Director of AI Data Engineering to lead a cross-functional team delivering governed AI-enabled data products, semantic layers, and analytic-ready datasets for actuarial analytics and business decision making.

You will drive Snowflake-based pipelines, data governance, and cloud data platforms while partnering with actuaries, data scientists, analytics, IT, and business leaders in Hartford and nearby hubs in a hybrid setup.