Senior Data Engineer

Travelers; Hartford (CT); On-site; USD 139,400 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Travelers is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to accelerate analytics transformation by building scalable data pipelines and AI-enabled data solutions. You will guide junior engineers, collaborate with enterprise teams, and shape data products that translate complex data into accessible insights.

Lead design and deployment of data solutions, ensure governance and security, and partner with stakeholders to deliver measurable business value.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM field or equivalent education/work experience.
• 10+ years of data engineering/related experience?
• Hands-on experience with modular, version-controlled data transformation and integration.

Responsibilities

• Build and operationalize complex data solutions and data pipelines.
• Incorporate core data management: governance, security, and quality.
• Collaborate across teams to deliver data products and educate end users.
• Perform data/system analysis, diagnose defects, and resolve incidents.

Skills

dbt

Apache Airflow

Dagster

AWS / S3

Data modeling

AI tools in delivery

infrastructure as code

RBAC / security

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, related STEM field

6 additional years of data engineering experience

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Who Are We?

Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That's the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 170 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.

Who Are We?

Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That's the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 170 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.

Compensation Overview

The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.

Salary Range

$139,400.00 - $230,000.00

Target Openings

1

What Is the Opportunity?

Travelers Data Engineering team constructs pipelines that contextualize and provide easy access to data by the entire enterprise. As a Senior Data Engineer you will accelerate growth and transformation of our analytics landscape. You will bring a strong desire to guide team members' growth and develop data solutions that translate complex data into user-friendly terminology. You will leverage your ability to design, build and deploy data solutions that capture, explore, transform, and utilize data to support Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and business intelligence/insights.

What Will You Do?

• Build and operationalize complex data solutions, correct problems, apply transformations, and recommending data cleansing/quality solutions.
• Design complex data solutions, including incorporating new data sources and ensuring designs are consistent across projects and aligned to data strategies.
• Perform analysis of complex sources to determine value and use and recommend data to include in analytical processes.
• Incorporate core data management competencies including data governance, data security and data quality.
• Act as a data and technology subject matter expert within lines of business to support delivery and educate end users on data products/analytic environment.
• Perform data and system analysis, assessment and resolution for defects and incidents of high complexity and correct as appropriate.
• Collaborate across team to support delivery and educate end users on complex data products/analytic environment.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Bachelor’s Degree in STEM related field or equivalent.
• Ten years of related experience.
• Hands-on experience with dbt for modular, version-controlled data transformation and integration, including models, tests, snapshots, and documentation across layered architectures.
• Experience building and operating pipeline orchestration with tools such as Apache Airflow and Dagster, including authoring DAGs, managing dependencies, backfills, and observability.
• Demonstrated experience delivering data solutions in AWS environments (e.g. S3, and related data services).
• Strong data modeling skills and experience designing data products with a focus on usability, reusability, and consumer needs.
• Experience leveraging AI tools to accelerate delivery velocity and improve engineering productivity.
• Working knowledge of infrastructure underpinning data platforms, including infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform) and access control via IAM systems and role-based access control (RBAC).
• Ability to think systematically and propose architectural solutions that deliver scalable, reusable data platform capabilities.
• Solid understanding of and hands-on experience with cyber security concepts and the evolving cyber threat landscape.
• Familiarity with the cyber insurance industry is a plus (desirable, not essential).
• A growth mindset driven by curiosity, a commitment to continuous improvement, and a focus on delivering measurable business value.
• Advanced knowledge of tools, techniques, and manipulation including cloud platforms, programming languages, and modern software engineering practices.
• Strong delivery skills including the ability to determine the software design strategy and methodology to be used for efforts, use automated tests, analysis, and informed feedback loops to ensure the quality and production readiness of work before release, monitor the health of work efforts and that of adjacent systems.
• Demonstrated track record of domain expertise including the ability to develop business partnerships and influence priorities by identifying solutions that are aligned with current business objective and closely follow industry trends relevant to domain, understanding how to apply them, and sharing knowledge with coworkers.
• Strong problem solver who utilizes data and proofs of concepts to find creative solutions to difficult problems involving a significant number of factors with broad implications, reflects on solutions, measures impact, and uses that information to ideate and optimize.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to develop business partnerships, describe technology concepts in ways the business can understand, document initiatives in a concise and clear manner, and empathetically and attentively listen to others thoughts and ideas.
• Ability to lead and take action even when there is no clear owner, inspire and motivate others, and be effective at influencing team members.

What is a Must Have?

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, related STEM field, or its equivalent in education and/or work experience.
• 6 additional years of data engineering experience.

What Is in It for You?

• Health Insurance: Employees and their eligible family members - including spouses, domestic partners, and children - are eligible for coverage from the first day of employment.
• Retirement: Travelers matches your 401(k) contributions dollar-for-dollar up to your first 5% of eligible pay, subject to an annual maximum. If you have student loan debt, you can enroll in the Paying it Forward Savings Program. When you make a payment toward your student loan, Travelers will make an annual contribution into your 401(k) account. You are also eligible for a Pension Plan that is 100% funded by Travelers.
• Paid Time Off: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 20 days Paid Time Off annually, plus nine paid company Holidays.
• Wellness Program: The Travelers wellness program is comprised of tools, discounts and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals and caregiving needs. In addition, our mental health program provides access to free professional counseling services, health coaching and other resources to support your daily life needs.
• Volunteer Encouragement: We have a deep commitment to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards program that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice.

Employment Practices

Travelers is an equal opportunity employer. We value the unique abilities and talents each individual brings to our organization and recognize that we benefit in numerous ways from our differences.

In accordance with local law, candidates seeking employment in Colorado are not required to disclose dates of attendance at or graduation from educational institutions.

If you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email so we may assist you.

Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting.

To learn more about our comprehensive benefit programs please visit http://careers.travelers.com/life-at-travelers/benefits/.