Senior Data Engineer

You desire impactful work.
 

You’re RGA ready

RGA is a purpose-driven organization working to solve today’s challenges through innovation and collaboration. A Fortune 500 Company and listed among its World’s Most Admired Companies, we’re the only global reinsurance company to focus primarily on life- and health-related solutions. Join our multinational team of intelligent, motivated, and collaborative people, and help us make financial protection accessible to all.

Independently designs, develops, tests, implements, documents, and supports big data/ data lake systems, including big data cataloging, modeling, ingestion, streaming, processing, and storage technologies and processes. Applies a general understanding of the source systems and leverages general knowledge of data warehouse and business intelligence technologies, as well as processes, to execute responsibilities.

What you will do

• Design, develop, test, and implement data ingestion pipelines for large data sets utilized for analytics and data science activities.
• Utilize existing patterns and processes to ingest evaluation data sets at scale.
• Integrate additional technologies and solutions into the ingestion pipelines to provide the ability to augment and enhance the ingested data for analytics and data science models.
• Work with business and technology stakeholders to optimize information collection and storage aligned to business requirements and technology standards.
• Recommend improvements and apply standards, processes and procedures for big data processing.
• Design, develop, test and implement services to allow business stakeholders to interact with curated data sets through defined functional capabilities.
• Create and implement effective metrics and monitoring processes.
• Seek continuous performance improvement and ensure security of information at scale.
• Follow secure code standards and best practices to develop and deliver solutions supporting needed business functionality.
• Maintain Knowledge Management to communicate the best practices, standards, patterns, and other documentation which will facilitate operational support and user interaction with data ingestion pipelines.
• May lead small projects with manageable risk and resource requirements.
• Act as a resource and impact on the quality of work for colleagues with less experience.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in arts/sciences (BA/BS) or equivalent education
• 4+ Years big data or relevant experience required
• 4+ Years’ experience with cataloging, modeling, ingestion, processing, and streaming technologies and processes. Continuous Integration Tools (eg, Jenkins, Cruise Control, Continuum, Travis) required
• 1+ Years Data Analysis experience required

Preferred:

• Master’s degree in arts/sciences (MA/MS) preferred

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Required:

• Development technologies (eg, Python, Scala, Java)
• AWS technologies (eg, Lambda, Step Functions, S3, Glue, EMR, IAM, Network, CloudWatch)
• Infrastructure as Code technologies (eg, Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Database technologies (eg, Snowflake, RDS, RedShift, Postgres,MongoDB, Athena, DynamoDB, MySQL, Oracle, NoSQL)
• JavaScript technologies (eg, jQuery, Angular, React and Nodejs)
• Communication and Data Exchange technologies (eg HTTP, SSL/TLS, REST, SQL, JSON)
• Enterprise Application Development technologies (eg, AIX/Linux, Websphere, Weblogic, Tomcat, JBOSS),  
• Continuous Integration Tools (eg, Jenkins, CruiseControl, Continuum, Travis)
• Test Driven Development processes and tooling (eg,PyTest, JUnit, Mocha, Jasmine, Protractor)
• DevOps-style deployment tools (eg, Docker, Ansible, Vagrant)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

What you can expect from RGA:

• Gain valuable knowledge from and experience with diverse, caring colleagues around the world.

• Enjoy a respectful, welcoming environment that fosters individuality and encourages pioneering thought.

• Join the bright and creative minds of RGA, and experience vast, endless career potential.

Compensation Range:

Base pay varies depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and market location. In addition, RGA provides an annual bonus plan that includes all roles and some positions are eligible for participation in our long-term equity incentive plan. RGA also maintains a full range of health, retirement, and other employee benefits.

RGA is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, gender identity or expression, sex, disability, veteran status, religion, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.