Lead Data Engineer – Big Data, Cloud & ETL

American Family Insurance Agency Staff; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 131,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

401(k) plan

Pension plan

Paid time off

Health benefits

Job summary

American Family Insurance Agency Staff is seeking a data engineering leader to architect and deliver data-driven solutions within our big data platform. You will oversee an engineering team responsible for building, maintaining, and operating ETL workflows that load and transform data across data stores and warehouses.

The role emphasizes cloud- based data processing, collaboration with architecture and development teams, and ensuring data quality and security throughout the lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience providing customer-driven solutions, support or service.
• In-depth knowledge of SQL or NoSQL and experience using a variety of data stores (e.g. RDBMS, analytic database, scalable document stores)
• Extensive hands-on Python programming experience, with an emphasis towards building ETL workflows and data-driven solutions.
• Able to employ design patterns and generalize code to address common use cases.
• Capable of authoring robust, high quality, reusable code and contributing to the division's inventory of libraries.
• Expertise in big data batch computing tools (e.g. Hadoop or Spark), with demonstrated experience developing distributed data processing solutions.
• Applied knowledge of cloud computing (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Knowledge of open source machine learning toolkits, such as sklearn, SparkML, or H2O.
• Solid data understanding and business acumen in the data rich industries like insurance or financial
• Applied knowledge of data modeling principles (e.g. dimensional modeling and star schemas).
• Strong understanding of database internals, such as indexes, binary logging, and transactions.
• Experience using tools for infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Docker, CloudFormation, Terraform, etc.)
• Experience with software engineering tools and workflows (i.e. Jenkins, CI/CD, git).
• Practical experience authoring and consuming web services.

Responsibilities

• Leads an engineering team to meet project deadlines and priorities.
• Supervises assigned data engineering team members & activities.
• Ensures the quality, completeness, security, privacy, and integrity of data throughout the data lifecycle.
• Documents critical workflows and operational support aspects of team's responsibilities
• Develops deep understanding of data sources, granularity, availability, and limitations.
• Provides proactive technical oversight and advice to application architecture and development teams fostering re-use, design for scale, stability, and operational efficiency of data/analytical solutions.
• Creates maintainable, scalable code to load and manipulate data in the data warehouse.
• Facilitates communication upward and across project teams and business stakeholders.

Skills

SQL/NoSQL

Python

ETL workflows

Data modeling

Big data tools

Cloud platforms

Web services

CI/CD

Tools

Docker

CloudFormation

Terraform

Jenkins

Git

Hadoop

Spark

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

American Family Insurance Agency Staff is seeking a data engineering leader to architect and deliver data-driven solutions within our big data platform. You will oversee an engineering team responsible for building, maintaining, and operating ETL workflows that load and transform data across data stores and warehouses.

The role emphasizes cloud- based data processing, collaboration with architecture and development teams, and ensuring data quality and security throughout the lifecycle.