Senior Staff Data Engineer - Hybrid

The Hartford • Danbury, CT

67d • $135,040 - $202,560 • Hybrid

About The Position

We're determined to make a difference and are proud to be an insurance company that goes well beyond coverages and policies. Working here means having every opportunity to achieve your goals - and to help others accomplish theirs, too. Join our team as we help shape the future. The Enterprise Data Services department's IT team supporting Global specialty is seeking a hands-on Senior Staff Data Engineer to enhance and support its Data assets on snowflake and SQL server platform. We are looking for a talented professional with a proven track record of engineering the ELT development and integration using Snowflake. Our ideal candidate will leverage deep technical expertise and problem-solving skills to deliver invest, maintenance and enhancement projects within the Data & Analytics Value stream. This role will have a Hybrid work schedule, with the expectation of working in an office location (Hartford, CT; Chicago, IL; Columbus, OH; and Charlotte, NC) 3 days a week (Tuesday through Thursday).

Requirements

• Candidates must be authorized to work in the US without company sponsorship.
• 5+ years in Snowflake data warehousing, data pipelines and automation.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in Datawarehouse and Data Integration(ELT/ETL).
• 3 + years in Cloud Data modernization (Ingestion, Curation, Data Domains, Data Products).
• Experience working with Data Lakes loading disparate data sources- Structured, semi-structured data (Flat files, XML, JSON, Parquet) and unstructured data.
• Ability to create, troubleshoot, enhance complex code in Snowflake Data Lakes/Data hubs/data warehouses.
• Experience in building data pipelines using cloud native ELT tools and automation of data ingestion including change data capture (CDC).
• Hands on experience with Snow SQL, Stored Procedures, UDF's using JavaScript, SnowPipe and other snowflake utilities.
• Experience with Data Governance (Catalog, Quality, Lineage).
• Strong data warehouse applications knowledge in preferably in financial/insurance domain is required.
• Experience with version control tools, CI/CD pipeline and DevOps tools like GitHub, Jenkins nexus and uDeploy.
• Knowledge of Data Profiling, Data Modeling and Database design is key to this role.

Nice To Haves

• SnowPro Core certified.
• AI Certifications.
• Implementing AI data pipelines that bring together structured, semi-structured and unstructured data to support AI and Agentic solutions.
• Hands-on experience with Data Visualization (preferably Tableau).
• Experience in the Insurance industry.
• Experience with Artificial Intelligence.
• Experience with Informatica Data management cloud.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate Technical leadership and expertise in Snowflake's cloud native architecture.
• Implement and leverage Materialized views, Data Sharing, Clone Feature and Performed Dynamic data Masking.
• Have a solid understanding of delivery methodology(SDLC) and lead teams in the implementation of the solution according to the design/architecture.
• Integration of data pipelines with source control repository and build CI/CD pipeline and DevOps.
• Researches and evaluates alternative solutions and recommends the most efficient and cost-effective solution for the systems design.
• Coordinate as needed between multiple disciplines such as, Architects, Business Analysts, Scrum Masters, and Developers to get technical clarity leading to design, develop and implementation of business solution.
• Oversight of quality and completeness of detailed technical specifications, solution designs, and code reviews as well as adherence to the non-functional requirements.
• Experience in delivering technical solutions in an iterative, agile environment (Scrum/Kanban).
• Participate as active agile team member to help drive feature refinement, user story completion, code review, etc.
• Identify, document, and communicate technical risks, issues and alternative technical solutions discovered during project.
• Collaboration with a high-performing, forward-focused team, Release train engineer, Product Owner(s) and Business stakeholders.
• Ability to work on innovative and new projects with a 'fail-fast' approach to provide optimal solutions that bring the most value to the business.
• Passion for learning new skills and the ability to adjust priorities on multiple projects based on changing demands/needs.

Benefits

• The base pay is just one component of The Hartford's total compensation package for employees.
• Other rewards may include short-term or annual bonuses, long-term incentives, and on-the-spot recognition.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Insurance Carriers and Related Activities
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees