Senior Data Reliability Engineer - Data Pipelines

The Hartford; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 128,000 - 191,000; Full time

Job summary

The Hartford is seeking a dedicated Data Reliability Engineer to focus on the integrity, quality, and availability of data assets and pipelines. This role partners with the SRE team to ensure trustworthy data products for downstream consumers and will operate in a hybrid model across multiple U.S.

office locations. Key responsibilities include establishing data SLOs, implementing observability, and automating data validation and runbooks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of experience in an Infrastructure, Data, or related technology organization with increasing responsibilities as a hands-on technologist.
• 3+ years of Data Engineering, Data Quality, or specialized SRE experience within an enterprise data environment.
• Hands-on experience with data warehousing and data lake technologies, including Snowflake, and cloud environments (AWS/GCP).
• Hands-on experience with ETL pipelines using SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).

Responsibilities

• Establish and enforce Data Service Level Objectives focused on data freshness, completeness, and accuracy across critical data products.
• Implement advanced data observability tools to monitor the data journey and detect data quality issues in real-time.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering to embed reliability into data pipelines built on Informatica, Python/PySpark, on EMR/Hadoop and cloud services.
• Automate data validation, reprocessing, backfilling, and other manual tasks to reduce toil.
• Lead data-focused incident response and post-mortems to ensure fast recovery.
• Create and automate runbooks for data pipeline failures, quality issues, and data recovery scenarios.

Skills

Data Reliability

Data Engineering

Data Quality

SRE

Snowflake

AWS/GCP

ETL pipelines

SQL Server SSIS/SSMS

Informatica

Python/PySpark

EMR/Hadoop

Data Observability

Big Data

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Informatica

SQL Server SSIS/SSMS

Snowflake

AWS

GCP

EMR/Hadoop

Monte Carlo

Bigeye

Astro Observe

Datafold

Job description

The Hartford is seeking a dedicated Data Reliability Engineer to focus on the integrity, quality, and availability of data assets and pipelines. This role partners with the SRE team to ensure trustworthy data products for downstream consumers and will operate in a hybrid model across multiple U.S.

office locations. Key responsibilities include establishing data SLOs, implementing observability, and automating data validation and runbooks.