Senior Data Engineer, Telemetry & Analytics Platform

Colonial Group; Greenwich (CT); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) retirement plan with company–mA

Excellent health and wellness benefits

Paid parental leave

Life insurance and disability coverage

Flexible Spending Accounts

Job summary

Colonial Group seeks a Senior Data Engineer to design and extend the telemetry and analytics framework, enabling product managers and engineers to self-serve analytics. You’ll own data collection, transformation and visualization tools and lead a small data team focused on reliable, scalable data platforms.

You will work with cross-functional teams to instrument systems, develop self-service data models and dashboards, and drive data quality and access control across products.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building data platforms, telemetry pipelines or analytics tooling
• Strong programming skills in Java and Python
• Deep experience with the ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana): index and mapping design, ingest pipelines, aggregations and Kibana dashboards
• Experience with OpenTelemetry across traces, metrics and logs: instrumentation, collectors and the Elastic OpenTelemetry distributions
• Experience building data collection systems end to end, from instrumentation through to consumption
• Experience leading or managing engineers, and setting technical direction for a small team
• Experience partnering with development teams to standardize instrumentation across frontend and backend systems
• Strong analytical and math skills applied to performance, stability and usage data
• Problem-solving aptitude and business acumen
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to teach non-specialists to use data tooling themselves
• BSc/BA in Computer Science, Engineering or a relevant field

Responsibilities

• Design, build and evolve the framework and tooling for collecting, transforming and aggregating telemetry and product data
• Build self-service capability: data models, aggregations, dashboards and tooling for non-specialists
• Process and model OpenTelemetry data (traces, metrics and logs) at scale
• Manage two data engineers: set technical direction, review designs and grow the team's capability
• Work with frontend and backend teams to instrument systems and report telemetry and analytics data
• Take on analyses beyond self-service: how services operate, perform and remain stable
• Own data access and quality: make the right data available to the right people
• Enable colleagues through documentation, dashboard patterns and hands-on support
• Present findings using clear data visualization

Skills

Java

Python

ELK Stack

OpenTelemetry

Data pipelines

Team leadership

Instrumentation standards

Communication

Statistics

Problem solving

Education

BSc/BA in Computer Science or Engineering

Graduate degree (nice to have)

Tools

Tableau

Kibana

SQL

AWS analytics services

Job description

Colonial Group seeks a Senior Data Engineer to design and extend the telemetry and analytics framework, enabling product managers and engineers to self-serve analytics. You’ll own data collection, transformation and visualization tools and lead a small data team focused on reliable, scalable data platforms.

You will work with cross-functional teams to instrument systems, develop self-service data models and dashboards, and drive data quality and access control across products.