Director, AI Data Engineering

Dir Data Engineering - GE06AE

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We are seeking a highly skilled Director,  AI Data Engineering, to join our Employee benefits data team. This role requires strategic thinking, expertise in data engineering practices, knowledge of AI technologies, The candidate should be versed in real-time data streaming, agentic frameworks, Data APIs, vector stores, and RAG architectures, and have a track record of enabling self-serve analytics and AI use cases. This role will be a hands on leadership role.

This role will have a Hybrid work schedule, with the expectation of working in an office (Columbus, OH, Chicago, IL, Hartford, CT or Charlotte, NC) 3 days a week (Tuesday through Thursday). Must be eligible to work in the US without company sponsorship. The company will not support the STEM OPT I-983 Training Plan endorsement for this position

Responsibilities:

• Lead Execution of a complex and large Data and Analytics portfolio.
• Data Modernization: Develop and implement a strategic roadmap to modernize legacy data and analytics ecosystems using Cloud and AI.  Solve for data complexity by enabling data domains and data products for all consumption architypes and stakeholders including reporting, data science, AI/ML and analytics.
• Architecture and Solution: Ensure data architecture and solutions align with enterprise-wide standards for Data, AI and Analytics.
• Effectively communicate strategy, execution progress, and outcomes to diverse stakeholders and promote data capabilities through thought leadership and presentations.
• AI Data Engineering leader responsible for Implementing AI data pipelines that integrate structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data to support AI and Agentic solutions.
• Real-Time Data Streaming: Design, build and maintain scalable real-time data pipelines for efficient ingestion, processing, and delivery.
• Drive best practices in AI data engineering by establishing standardized processes, promoting cutting-edge technologies, and ensuring data quality and compliance across the enterprise.
• Data and Analytics Management: Oversee the design, development, and maintenance of data pipelines, data warehouses, data lakes and reporting systems.
• Expertise in data engineering practices, knowledge of AI technologies, and the ability to lead cross-functional teams. Expertise in real-time data streaming, agentic frameworks, Data APIs, vector stores, and RAG architectures, self-serve analytics and AI.
• Leadership: Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing team including business data analysts, data engineers and release train engineers.
• Drive efficiency and Productivity: Identify and champion developer productivity improvements across the end-to-end data management lifecycle. This includes researching and implementing innovative solutions such as AI-driven auto-generation of data pipelines, advanced DevOps practices for data and automated data quality frameworks.
• Technology Evaluation & Adoption: Stay current with emerging trends in data engineering and AI/ML, design prototypes and conduct experiments, and recommend innovative tools and technologies to enhance data capabilities enabling business strategy.
• Data Governance, Stewardship and Quality: Define and implement robust data management frameworks to ensure successful adoption of Enterprise Data Governance and Data Quality practices.
• Budget Management: Effectively manage the budget and financials for the portfolio.
• Develop deep partnerships and alignment with the portfolio and agile value stream frameworks. Experience with Agile at Scale and iterative development through cross-functional teams.
• Partners with Technology, Data, AI Platform, ML Ops and Architecture teams to influence technology, data, platform and tooling strategy.

Qualifications:

• 12+ years in data engineering, data management and building large-scale data ecosystems.
• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science or a related field.
• 3+ years in senior leadership roles managing large and complex data and analytics portfolio with large size teams.
• Proven strategic and innovative thinker with a track record of enabling transformative data capabilities.
• Mastery level data engineering and architecture skills, including deep expertise in data architecture patterns, data warehouse, data integration, data lakes, data domains, data products, business intelligence, and cloud technology capabilities.
• Technical expertise in LLMs, AI platforms, prompt engineering, LLM optimization, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures and vector database technologies (Vertex AI, Postgres, OpenSearch, Pinecone etc.).
• Strong experience with GCP, Vertex AI or AWS required.
• Experience in multi cloud environment.
• Experience in Lang chain, AI agents, Vertex AI and Google Agent ecosystem.
• Strong experience with the design and development of complex data ecosystems leveraging next-generation cloud technology stack across AWS or GCP Cloud and Snowflake.
• Exceptional presentation and verbal/written communication skills; must be able to communicate effectively at all levels across the organization.
• Ability to lead successfully in a lean, agile, and fast-paced organization, leveraging Scaled Agile principles and ways of working. 
• Excellent negotiation, influencing, and conflict resolution skills; adept at building strong cross-functional relationships.
• Preferred experience in the Property & Casualty insurance industry.

Compensation

The listed annualized base pay range is primarily based on analysis of similar positions in the external market. Actual base pay could vary and may be above or below the listed range based on factors including but not limited to performance, proficiency and demonstration of competencies required for the role. 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. The annualized base pay range for this role is:

$156,000 - $234,000

Equal Opportunity Employer/Sex/Race/Color/Veterans/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity or Expression/Religion/Age

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