Senior Staff Data Engineer

Integrated Specialty Coverages, LLC

About The Position

The Senior Staff Data Engineer is the technical owner of ISC’s data platform, responsible for defining architecture, driving technical decisions, and delivering solutions that align with business objectives. This role serves as the primary technical authority across the data engineering team and will lead architecture discussions, mentor engineers, and set engineering standards. You will partner directly with engineering, product, data science, and business stakeholders to translate complex business needs into scalable technical solutions. You must navigate ambiguity, scope undefined problems, and drive them to completion independently. A strong emphasis on AI, both integrated in the development workflow and user-facing capabilities, is expected with a commitment to upskilling the team in modern tooling and practices. No prior insurance knowledge is required, but you must quickly develop deep domain expertise.

Requirements

7+ years of data engineering experience from requirements through production and maintenance
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related degree or equivalent experience
Strong experience building, optimizing and debugging data models, pipelines and data warehousing using SQL, DBT and Snowflake
7+ years of experience writing production software in a cloud-native environment using Python and AWS services (S3, Batch, ECR, DMS, MWAA)
Experience integrating AI/ML tools into development workflows or building AI-driven data products
Demonstrated experience as a technical authority by driving architecture decisions, setting engineering standards, and mentoring engineers
A successful history of transforming, processing and extracting value from large disconnected, datasets from a variety of data sources (Flat files, Excel, databases, APIs, etc.)
Experience working in a complex, fast-moving environment as part of a small, collaborative team

Nice To Haves

Insurance industry systems and technology experience
Experience building AI/ML pipelines or leading AI adoption initiatives across engineering teams
Prior experience working in a staff or principal engineer role or equivalent technical leadership position
Experience operating in a high-growth or PE-backed environment with competing priorities and fast timelines

Responsibilities

Own the technical architecture and long-term strategy of ISC’s data platform, making technology decisions that balance scalability, maintainability, and business value.
Drive adoption of AI-assisted development practices and build AI-driven capabilities that create measurable business value
Partner with executive, product, engineering, and business stakeholders to translate complex business needs into technical strategy and delivery plans
Provide hands-on technical mentorship to data engineers through code reviews, architecture discussions, and knowledge sharing
Navigate ambiguous, undefined problems by scoping them independently and delivering solutions aligned with business priorities
Design, build, and maintain data infrastructure for extraction, transformation, and loading from a wide variety of sources using AWS, DBT + SQL on Snowflake, Python, Docker, and Airflow.

Benefits

Employee Ownership Program - every eligible employee shares in the financial rewards that grow when the company grows
Professional development opportunities
Owner Referral Program
Work from home reimbursement for remote/hybrid roles
Canary emergency financial assistance program
Comprehensive medical, dental, vision
Life/AD&D Insurance
Confidential, Employee Assistance Program
Health Savings Account, includes company contribution
Short-term disability
Voluntary benefits - supplemental accident, critical illness, hospital insurance
Employee discounts
401(k) Plan with company match contribution
Addition Wealth Financial Wellness Program
Various Time Off Programs
11 company paid holidays