Senior Engineer

Straive; Overland Park (KS); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Straive is seeking a hands-on Senior Engineer to design, build, and support cloud-native data, integration, and AI-enabled solutions in the insurance and financial services domain. You will work across AWS data platforms, Salesforce, and generative AI technologies to deliver secure, compliant solutions in a regulated enterprise environment.

Responsibilities include designing AWS data solutions, integrating Salesforce with data platforms, and building AI-enabled and Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software/data engineering or cloud engineering experience.
• Hands-on AWS data services experience (Glue, Redshift, Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge).
• Experience building or supporting AI/LLM solutions (production or prototyping).
• Experience with Salesforce integration (Apex, Flow Builder, CDC, SFDX).
• Strong analytical thinking to diagnose complex issues and improve processes.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and support AWS data solutions and data platforms.
• Develop Salesforce integrations between Salesforce, AWS, and downstream platforms.
• Build AI-enabled and RAG solutions using Bedrock and BI platforms.
• Ensure security, governance, and compliance across data workflows.
• Troubleshoot production issues and improve monitoring/runbooks.

Skills

AWS data services

AI/LLM experience

Problem solving

Communication

Tools

Apex

Flow Builder

CDC

SFDX

Glue

Redshift

Lambda

DBT

Terraform

PySpark

Job description

About Straive

Straive is a global leader in data analytics, AI, and knowledge services, partnering with Fortune 500 enterprises across financial services, insurance, life sciences, and information providers. We build and operate data platforms, AI-enabled solutions, and analytics products that power mission-critical business decisions for our clients worldwide.

Role Overview

We are seeking a hands-on Senior Engineer to design, build, and support cloud-native data, integration, and AI-enabled solutions in the insurance and financial services domain. You will work independently across AWS data platforms, Salesforce, and generative AI technologies, partnering with architects, engineers, and business stakeholders to deliver secure, reliable, and compliant solutions in a regulated enterprise environment.

Key Responsibilities

• AWS Data Solutions: Design, build, enhance, and support AWS data solutions using services such as Glue/PySpark, Redshift, Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, DBT, and Terraform, including data reconciliation, testing, deployment, and performance optimization.
• Salesforce Integration: Develop and support Salesforce solutions using Apex, Flow Builder, Change Data Capture, and SFDX; collaborate on integrations between Salesforce, AWS, and downstream data platforms.
• AI & RAG Development: Build and enhance AI-enabled and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) solutions using Amazon Bedrock and enterprise analytics/BI platforms, applying established patterns for prompt engineering, knowledge retrieval, agent workflows, testing, guardrails, and human review.
• Enterprise Delivery: Develop applications, workflows, automations, agents, and analytics that address business requirements while applying appropriate security, data access, provenance, and compliance controls.
• Production Operations: Troubleshoot complex production issues, improve monitoring and runbooks, and participate in incident response.
• Engineering Standards: Collaborate with architects, engineers, and business partners to recommend improvements to reliability and engineering practices.

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years of relevant professional experience in software engineering, data engineering, cloud engineering, or related technology disciplines.
• Strong hands-on expertise across AWS data services (Glue, Redshift, Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge) with PySpark, DBT, and Terraform.
• 1+ year of hands-on experience building or supporting AI/LLM solutions (production or advanced prototyping).
• Hands-on experience developing on Salesforce (Apex, Flow Builder, CDC, SFDX) and integrating Salesforce with cloud data platforms.
• Demonstrated experience troubleshooting production systems and collaborating across technical and business teams to resolve complex issues and improve processes.
• Strong analytical thinking to diagnose complex issues, evaluate alternatives, and recommend practical solutions.
• Clear communication of technical concepts and a solid understanding of how security, reliability, data governance, and regulatory requirements influence technology design and delivery.

Domain & Business Knowledge (Nice to Have)

Prior experience in the life insurance, annuities, or broader insurance domain is a strong plus, particularly:

• Institutional or group life insurance products (e.g., COLI/BOLI, group life, or worksite/voluntary benefits).
• Individual life and annuity products, including policy lifecycle processes (new business/onboarding, underwriting, in-force policy administration, billing/payments, and claims).
• Retirement and institutional solutions such as pension risk transfer, stable value, or guaranteed products.
• Working alongside actuaries, underwriters, finance, and operations teams in a regulated environment (data privacy, audit, model/AI governance expectations).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with BI/analytics platforms (e.g., Amazon QuickSight), agentic AI frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, LangGraph, CrewAI), MCP, vector databases, streaming technologies, or LLM evaluation tooling.
• AWS and/or Salesforce certifications (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect, Salesforce Platform Developer II).
• Experience with security controls, observability, SRE practices, or AI governance in enterprise environments.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Straive is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.