Sr. Director, Data Engineering

Who Are We?

Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That’s the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 160 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.

Job Category

Technology

Compensation Overview

The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.

Salary Range

$149,600.00 - $246,800.00

Target Openings

1

What Is the Opportunity?

The Travelers Digital Analytics team collects data via common digital analytics platforms and then constructs data pipelines that provide data to internal and external partners to consume. As a Digital Analytics Senior Director, you will accelerate growth and transformation of our digital analytics landscape. In this role, you will lead teams designing and building solutions that capture, explore, transform, and utilize data to support Artificial Intelligence, business intelligence/insights, and dynamic user experiences. In addition to ingesting data from multiple sources and relaying information to relevant partners, you will also mentor and develop a team of digital analytics professionals.

What Will You Do?

• Lead development, configuration, and/or maintenance within digital analytic platforms like Tealium, Google Analytics, OneTrust, ObservePoint, and other relevant platforms.
• Support the creation of digital data products within our cloud environments.
• Execute data strategies to support various consumption patterns and identify enterprise architecture, platform, and application infrastructure needs.
• Drive the operationalizing and automating of all capabilities to ensure secure, supported and scalable solutions.
• Present analysis and recommendations to help influence management and executive leadership decisions.
• Guide and coach senior team members to accelerate career development.
• Establish budgets, policies and practices with significant impact on area operations.
• Define, prioritize and ensure a ready backlog of work for 1-2 complex cross-functional product team(s), accept final product output, focusing on achievement of defined outcomes as well as how the work is completed.
• Define team goals and strategy, ensuring alignment with circle and value stream vision; Articulate team goals and strategy effectively to key stakeholders, Circle Leads, Value Stream Leads, and team members.
• Act as voice of the end-user; have a deep understanding of, anticipate, and proactively seek customer feedback ensuring needs and requirements are clearly defined; ensure team work product meets defined acceptance criteria.
• Stay up-to-date on the industry, competition and current trends to inform and influence requirements. 
• Collaborate with Tech/Data Governance, Architecture, and Legal partners to ensure that regulatory obligations for privacy/consent (e.g., CPRA, PIPEDA, GDPR, etc.) are being followed for domestic and international digital properties.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Bachelor’s Degree in STEM related field or equivalent
• Eight or more years of related work experience
• Four or more years of team leadership experience
• Subject matter expertise in data tools, techniques, and manipulation including cloud platforms, programming languages, and technology platforms.
• Four years of experience in Agile product management preferred.
• Five years of experience articulating and translating business strategy, product vision, and analysis for a product preferred.
• Product Mindset: Focus on defining a product value proposition that aligns with and supports the circle/value stream objectives and which is the north star for the team.

What is a Must Have?

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent training with data tools, techniques, and manipulation.
• Six years of data engineering or equivalent experience
• One year of previous management experience.

What Is in It for You?

• Health Insurance: Employees and their eligible family members – including spouses, domestic partners, and children – are eligible for coverage from the first day of employment.
• Retirement: Travelers matches your 401(k) contributions dollar-for-dollar up to your first 5% of eligible pay, subject to an annual maximum. If you have student loan debt, you can enroll in the Paying it Forward Savings Program. When you make a payment toward your student loan, Travelers will make an annual contribution into your 401(k) account. You are also eligible for a Pension Plan that is 100% funded by Travelers.
• Paid Time Off: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 20 days Paid Time Off annually, plus nine paid company Holidays.
• Wellness Program: The Travelers wellness program is comprised of tools, discounts and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals and caregiving needs. In addition, our mental health program provides access to free professional counseling services, health coaching and other resources to support your daily life needs.
• Volunteer Encouragement: We have a deep commitment to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards program that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice.

Employment Practices

Travelers is an equal opportunity employer. We value the unique abilities and talents each individual brings to our organization and recognize that we benefit in numerous ways from our differences. 

In accordance with local law, candidates seeking employment in Colorado are not required to disclose dates of attendance at or graduation from educational institutions.

If you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email so we may assist you.

Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting.

To learn more about our comprehensive benefit programs please visit http://careers.travelers.com/life-at-travelers/benefits/.