Senior Data Solutions Engineer - Hybrid (Jersey City)

Fortitude Re; Jersey City (NJ); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortitude Reinsurance Company Ltd. (Fortitude Re) is a leading provider of legacy reinsurance solutions, with a focus on Life & Annuity and P&C lines.

The Senior Associate, Data Solutions Engineering will design robust data pipelines and data transformations, mentor junior staff, and contribute to scalable, compliant data platforms from our Jersey City office on a hybrid basis. The role emphasizes independent solution design, automation, and DevOps-driven operations within an actuarial–finance

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Math, Computer Science, Engineering or similar field.
• Understanding of ETL/ELT, cloud, data operations.
• Domain knowledge of Actuarial, Investment, or Finance within Insurance/Reinsurance industry is a plus.
• Minimum experience of four years in programming (Python, Julia and/or R) and proficient in SQL.
• Robust knowledge of data lakes, data governance and modern data quality techniques.
• Experience with Databricks and/or Dagster and/or DBT preferred.
• Detail-oriented debugging and troubleshooting.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and conceptual skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver strategic data solutions using modern data engineering principles.
• Independently implement and optimize data ingestion/transformation jobs and deliver incremental datasets for downstream consumption.
• Champion automation and operate in an agile development environment while applying DevOps principles.
• Evaluate and improve existing data pipelines, recommending future-state architectures that increase scalability, performance, and maintainability.
• Collaborate across the function- partnering with data platform engineers, data governance, data science, and data analytics/visualization peers, to ensure solutions are robust, compliant, and reusable.
• Support and mentor early career professionals by sharing best practices and contributing to team knowledge.

Skills

Python

SQL

Julia

R

Education

Bachelor's degree in Math, Computer Science, Engineering or similar field

Tools

Databricks

Dagster

DBT

Job description

Fortitude Reinsurance Company Ltd. (Fortitude Re) is a leading provider of legacy reinsurance solutions, with a focus on Life & Annuity and P&C lines.

The Senior Associate, Data Solutions Engineering will design robust data pipelines and data transformations, mentor junior staff, and contribute to scalable, compliant data platforms from our Jersey City office on a hybrid basis. The role emphasizes independent solution design, automation, and DevOps-driven operations within an actuarial–finance