Hybrid Senior Technical Data Operations Lead

Munich Re Group; Princeton (NJ); Hybrid; USD 142,000 - 208,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training opportunities

Career development

Continuous learning

Collaborative culture

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Munich Re Group in Princeton, NJ is seeking a Technical Data Specialist Sr. to ensure the reliability of our enterprise data ecosystem.

You will oversee data warehouse operations, production support, and incident management in a complex financial services environment. You will lead data operations, collaborate with product owners and engineers, and drive operational governance across Databricks, SQL Server, ADF, and IDMC.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Data Eng or equivalent.
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• Oversee health, availability, and reliability of enterprise data warehouse operations.
• Lead the triage and resolution of production incidents, job failures, and data quality issues.
• Establish incident priorities and drive root-cause analysis to prevent recurring issues.
• Coordinate escalation management and stakeholder communications for critical production events.
• Define and monitor operational success metrics for data products, reporting assets, platforms, and enterprise data capabilities.
• Identify and prioritize enhancements that improve platform stability, scalability, performance, and usability.
• Ensure operational documentation, support procedures, controls, and evidence remain current and audit-ready.
• Support and continuously improve production support operating models and service management practices.
• Serve as a SME across data warehouses, data marts, data lakes, and data APIs.
• Provide leadership across ETL/ELT processing environments and modern cloud-based data ecosystems.
• Coordinate vulnerability remediation efforts with infrastructure, architecture, delivery, and support teams.
• Support the operational management of platforms including Databricks, SQL Server, ADF, and IDMC.
• Lead strategic data-run initiatives and partner with business product owners to prioritize backlog items.

Responsibilities

• Oversee health, availability, and reliability of enterprise data warehouse operations.
• Triage and resolve production incidents, job failures, and data quality issues.
• Lead root-cause analysis to prevent recurring issues.
• Coordinate escalation management and stakeholder communications for critical production events.
• Define and monitor operational metrics for data products, platforms, and assets.
• Identify enhancements to improve stability, scalability, and performance.
• Ensure operational documentation and controls are audit-ready.
• Support production support operating models and service management practices.
• Serve as subject matter expert across data warehouses, data lakes, and data APIs.
• Lead ETL/ELT processing and cloud-based data ecosystems.
• Coordinate vulnerability remediation with cross-functional teams.
• Support Databricks, SQL Server, ADF, and IDMC platform management.
• Lead strategic data-run initiatives and backlog prioritization with product owners.

Skills

Production support leadership

Data engineering

Data operations

Stakeholder management

Incident management

Cloud data architectures

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Data Engineering

Tools

Databricks

SQL Server

Azure Data Factory

Informatica IDMC

Job description

Munich Re Group in Princeton, NJ is seeking a Technical Data Specialist Sr. to ensure the reliability of our enterprise data ecosystem.

You will oversee data warehouse operations, production support, and incident management in a complex financial services environment. You will lead data operations, collaborate with product owners and engineers, and drive operational governance across Databricks, SQL Server, ADF, and IDMC.