Sr. Manager, Data Engineering

Ready for a new challenge? Join Guidewire as a Data Engineering Manager! We are building a new team to take advantage of our market leading position and access to data to build advanced predictive models and variables to drive the next generation of growth in the P&C insurance market. This is an opportunity to come on board early and shape  our direction and have a broad impact on the insurance industry.   

Responsibilities:

• Manage team of data engineers working on multiple simultaneous projects with a focus on data preparation and pipeline development for predictive modeling and GenAI. Includes:
• Data interrogation, exploratory data analysis, profiling, and reconciliation
• Data pipeline creation, revision and monitoring based on product manager and data scientist/actuarial input
• Feature creation,  initial testing, and ongoing management
• Work collaboratively with other staff including product managers, data scientists, other data analysts, architects to solve problems, develop innovative approaches, and provide project status
• Create and manage data assets, datasets, features, and code with a focus on simplicity, scalability, reusability, and clear documentation 
• Additional work assignments not related to specific project work such as new feature development, external data research, providing user feedback on new products and tools under development

Qualifications:

• Bachelors or Masters degree or equivalent industry experience
• Passion for solving complex data engineering problems
• 10+ years of relevant data engineering experience
• 3-5 years of relevant management experience
• Advanced, hands on experience building modeling datasets and features for predictive modeling
• Expert SQL skills, including advanced functions, table design, view creation, stored procedure and script design and coding, general performance tuning
• Expert data profiling and analysis skills including statistical analysis
• Extensive experience building ML data pipelines and working with feature stores
• In-depth knowledge of Python
• Deep experience with AWS data capabilities like Airflow, Glue, Redshift, EMR
• Experience with developing and automating data quality monitoring 
• Experience with US/Canadian P&C standard lines of business
• Experience with P&C policy administration and claims processing concepts
• Demonstrated experience working with Guidewire ClaimCenter and/or PolicyCenter data
• Exposure to and understanding of NLP and other ML techniques 
• Experience with AWS Sagemaker and Feature Store a bonus
• Experience and skill in communicating insights derived from data to both technical and non-technical personnel
• Ability to plan and carry out projects with minimal direction
• Self-motivated and detail-oriented with desire to solve problems

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About Guidewire
Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. We combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 540+ insurers in 40 countries, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, run on Guidewire.
As a partner to our customers, we continually evolve to enable their success. We are proud of our unparalleled implementation track record with 1600+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our Marketplace provides hundreds of applications that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.
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