Senior Security Automation & Data Pipeline Engineer

Northwestern Mutual; Milwaukee (WI); Hybrid; USD 131,000 - 196,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work schedules

Concierge service

Comprehensive benefits

Employee resource groups

Job summary

Northwestern Mutual is seeking a Security Automation Engineer with Data Engineering experience to design, build, and maintain automated data pipelines and analytics products. You will implement ETL/ELT frameworks, cloud-based pipelines, and data lake architectures while ensuring data quality and governance across the lifecycle.

Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and engineers, and mentor junior team members.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional development experience using SQL and Python.
• 5+ years of professional experience building data pipelines (batch and/or streaming) and data governance practices.
• Hands-on experience with modern data warehouses and large-scale data platforms (Databricks Preferred).
• Deep understanding of database structures principles and best practices.
• Deep understanding of data modeling, ETL/ELT design, data engineering best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines, datasets, and analytics products supporting IRC department's reporting and analytics capabilities.
• Develop and maintain enterprise-ready ETL/ELT processes and data transformation frameworks to support data-driven initiatives.
• Design, build and support cloud-based data pipelines and data lake architectures using software and data engineering best practices.
• Ensure data quality, lineage, integrity, and governance standards are implemented throughout the data lifecycle.
• Optimize and troubleshoot existing data pipelines for performance and reliability across data sources.
• Identify opportunities to automate workflows and improve efficiency through SOAR playbooks and Kubernetes- or cloud-hosted pipelines.
• Develop integrations with security tools and APIs.

Skills

Adaptive Communication

Data Architecture

Data ETL

Databases & Data Platforms

Engineering Practices

Programming Languages

SQL

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Databricks

GitLab

GitLab CI

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

PowerShell

Bash

Java

C++

Go

Job description

Northwestern Mutual is seeking a Security Automation Engineer with Data Engineering experience to design, build, and maintain automated data pipelines and analytics products. You will implement ETL/ELT frameworks, cloud-based pipelines, and data lake architectures while ensuring data quality and governance across the lifecycle.

Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and engineers, and mentor junior team members.