Senior Data Solutions Engineer - Remote, Pipelines

Fortitude Re; Jersey City (NJ); Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortitude Reinsurance Company Ltd. (Fortitude Re) is a leading provider of legacy reinsurance solutions, backed by major investors.

We are seeking a Senior Associate, Data Solutions Engineering to design and run robust data pipelines, transform data, and document playbooks. The role emphasizes independent solution design, optimization, and mentoring junior teammates, reporting to the VP/AVP, Data Solutions Engineering.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Math, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Understanding of ETL/ELT, cloud, data operations.
• Domain knowledge of Actuarial, Investment, or Finance within Insurance/Reinsurance is a plus.
• Minimum four years of programming experience (Python, Julia, or R) and strong SQL.
• Robust knowledge of data lakes, data governance and modern data quality techniques.
• Experience with Databricks and/or Dagster and/or DBT is preferred.
• Detail-oriented debugging and troubleshooting abilities.
• 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 per business requirements.
• 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

Data pipelines

ETL/ELT

Cloud data platforms

Data governance

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Math/CS/Engineering

Tools

Databricks

Dagster

DBT

Job description

Fortitude Reinsurance Company Ltd. (Fortitude Re) is a leading provider of legacy reinsurance solutions, backed by major investors.

We are seeking a Senior Associate, Data Solutions Engineering to design and run robust data pipelines, transform data, and document playbooks. The role emphasizes independent solution design, optimization, and mentoring junior teammates, reporting to the VP/AVP, Data Solutions Engineering.