Founding Data Platform Engineer — Hybrid/Ownership

Howden Insurance (Ireland) Limited; United States; On-site; USD 160,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Flexible Paid Time Off

Parental leave

Life and Disability insurance

Job summary

Howden Insurance (Ireland) Limited in the United States is building a data-driven platform. We seek a founding Data Engineer to design and implement the core data platform, pipelines, and governance to power analytics across the business.

As a founding member of the Howden US Data team, you will own the end-to-end data stack, collaborate with global data teams, and shape the data strategy to enable data-driven decision making at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical or quantitative discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in data engineering or similar data platform roles.
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines and data models.
• Proven experience deploying and maintaining production workloads on Azure and/or Databricks.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain a scalable data platform for collecting, storing, and processing raw data.
• Build efficient, performant, and well-tested data pipelines that transform raw data from disparate sources into trusted data products.
• Collaborate with global data teams and business stakeholders to understand business requirements and design solutions that adhere to global best practices.
• Implement data validation, quality checks, and error handling processes.
• Document data architecture, pipelines, transformations, and processes for seamless data governance.
• Ensure compliance with data governance, security, and privacy standards.
• Stay up-to-date on emerging data engineering technologies and design patterns.
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Skills

SQL

Python

PySpark

Databricks

Azure

CI/CD

Data governance

Data quality

Stakeholders

Insurance data

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical or quantitative discipline

Tools

Azure services

Databricks

Job description

Howden Insurance (Ireland) Limited in the United States is building a data-driven platform. We seek a founding Data Engineer to design and implement the core data platform, pipelines, and governance to power analytics across the business.

As a founding member of the Howden US Data team, you will own the end-to-end data stack, collaborate with global data teams, and shape the data strategy to enable data-driven decision making at scale.