MFT Lead Engineer

Verisk; New Jersey; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 152,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Short-term incentive

Job summary

Verisk in Jersey City, NJ seeks an experienced MFT Lead Engineer to design, build, and modernize the managed file transfer platform. You will lead secure transfer patterns, scheduling, encryption, automation, and resilience across enterprise data exchanges.

You will own platform architecture, drive modernization with API enablement, CI/CD, observability, and production readiness, guiding incident response, runbooks, and vendor strategy in a hybrid work environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering, design, and delivery of the enterprise MFT platform, including secure transfer patterns, workflows, scheduling, encryption, automation, and resilience.
• Own platform architecture and technical standards to ensure secure, scalable, reliable, and supportable file transfer services.
• Drive modernization initiatives, including automation, self-service capabilities, API enablement, CI/CD integration, and cloud adoption where applicable.
• Establish and improve observability through dashboards, alerting, logging, service metrics, and reporting to support proactive service management and continuous improvement.
• Provide engineering oversight for service health, escalations, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and long-term reliability improvements.
• Partner with operations, infrastructure, security, architecture, and business stakeholders to deliver production-ready solutions and define operational readiness requirements, including runbooks, monitoring, training, and handoff artifacts.
• Support governance, audit, and risk management activities by ensuring strong technical controls, secure onboarding standards, certificate management, and remediation of platform vulnerabilities.
• Act as the technical lead and subject matter expert for the MFT platform, influencing roadmap, vendor strategy, technical debt reduction, and service-quality outcomes.

Job description

• Locations 545 Washington Blvd, Jersey City, NJ, 07310, US (Hybrid)
• Short Term Incentive Yes
• Long Term Incentive No
• Commission No
• Work Arrangement Hybrid
• Budgeted Salary Currency USD
• Minimum Salary 120,000
• Maximum Salary 152,000
• Division Corporate Functions
• Legal Employer Insurance Services Office, Inc.
• Disclaimer Annualized base pay may vary depending on geographic location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced MFT Lead Engineer to lead the design, engineering, modernization, and continuous improvement of our managed file transfer platform. This role is responsible for building a secure, reliable, scalable, and supportable MFT service that enables critical business data exchange across the enterprise and with external partners. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in managed file transfer technologies, platform architecture, automation, observability, and production readiness, and can serve as the technical lead for service reliability, engineering standards, and strategic platform evolution.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering, design, and delivery of the enterprise MFT platform, including secure transfer patterns, workflows, scheduling, encryption, automation, and resilience.
• Own platform architecture and technical standards to ensure secure, scalable, reliable, and supportable file transfer services.
• Drive modernization initiatives, including automation, self-service capabilities, API enablement, CI/CD integration, and cloud adoption where applicable.
• Establish and improve observability through dashboards, alerting, logging, service metrics, and reporting to support proactive service management and continuous improvement.
• Provide engineering oversight for service health, escalations, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and long-term reliability improvements.
• Partner with operations, infrastructure, security, architecture, and business stakeholders to deliver production-ready solutions and define operational readiness requirements, including runbooks, monitoring, training, and handoff artifacts.
• Support governance, audit, and risk management activities by ensuring strong technical controls, secure onboarding standards, certificate management, and remediation of platform vulnerabilities.
• Act as the technical lead and subject matter expert for the MFT platform, influencing roadmap, vendor strategy, technical debt reduction, and service-quality outcomes.

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About Us

For over 50 years, Verisk has been the leading data analytics and technology partner to the global insurance industry by delivering value to our clients through expertise and scale. We empower communities and businesses to make better decisions on risk, faster.

At Verisk, you'll have the chance to use your voice and build a rewarding career that's as unique as you are, with work flexibility and the support, coaching, and training you need to succeed.

For the eighth consecutive year, Verisk is proudly recognized as a Great Place to Work for outstanding workplace culture in the US, the fourth consecutive year in the UK, Spain, and India, and the second consecutive year in Poland. In addition, we’ve been recognized by The Wall Street Journal as one of the Best-Managed Companies and by Forbes as a World's Best Employer, testaments to the value we place on workplace culture.

We're 7,000 people strong. We relentlessly and ethically pursue innovation. And we are looking for people like you to help us translate big data into big ideas. Join us and create an exceptional experience for yourself and a better tomorrow for future generations.

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