Senior Engineer- Data Efficiency/Datalakehouse

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Senior Engineer Data

GEICO is seeking an experience engineer who will lead the technical onboarding of new data use cases and business initiatives to Blaise (GEICOs Data Lakehouse) to unify data into a single scalable secure multi-tenant platform providing multiple interfaces to access and query data for users. They will collaborate with stakeholders to understand data requirements design and implement scalable data ingestion and transformation pipelines and ensure integration with the existing Lakehouse architecture.

Position Description

Our Senior Engineer works with Staff Engineers to innovate and build new systems improve and enhance existing systems and identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise as this project has a direct impact on business saving on storage and compute costs

Position Responsibilities

As a Senior Engineer you will:

• Team up with Tech leads Managers work in an Agile environment to tackle organization wide goals centered on Data Efficiency.
• Lead the technical onboarding of new data use cases and projects to the Lakehouse platform working with data scientists analysts and business teams.
• Design build and optimize scalable data pipelines (ETL/ELT) for ingesting and transforming data into the Lakehouse.
• Collaborate with data producers and consumers to define data requirements data models and transformation logic.
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues related to data ingestion processing and consumption within the Lakehouse.
• Collaborate with platform engineers to implement infrastructure improvements to support new use cases and optimize platform performance.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to knowledge sharing within the team and across the organization.
• Stay at the forefront of emerging identity trends technologies and best practices and apply this knowledge to enhance GEICOs data protection strategies

Qualifications

• 4 years of experience in data engineering data warehousing or a related data-focused discipline with a focus on data ingestion and onboarding.
• Experience working with data technologies such as SQL Python PySpark Spark Scala JSON Kafka DBT (Data Build Tool) Iceberg Snowflake Airflow ADO and Azure Data Factory (ADF) are preferred
• Experience building and operating data pipelines using technologies like Apache Spark Flink Kafka etc.
• Hands-on experience with cloud data platforms such as AWS Azure or GCP and their respective data services.
• Experience with data lakehouse technologies (e.g. Delta Lake Apache Hudi Apache Iceberg).
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python Scala or Java.
• Experience with SQL and data modeling techniques.
• Strong understanding of data governance security and compliance principles.
• Excellent communication collaboration and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline setup with best practices. Azure DevOps (ADO) is preferred
• Experience
  • 4 years of professional software development or production support experience preferably with data pipelines and data ingestion and transformation
  • 3 years of experience with AWS GCP Azure or another cloud service
  • 2 years of experience in open-source frameworks

Education

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Information Systems or equivalent education or work experience

Compensation Package

Compensation Package - General Compensation Package

• Compensation Grade- Grade 93

• Compensation Grade Profile- Tech Salary Schedule 2

• Total Base Pay Range- 100000.00 - 150000.00 - 200000.00 USD Annual

Annual Salary

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include but are not limited to the scope and responsibilities of the role the selected candidates work experience education and training the work location as well as market and business considerations.

The GEICO Pledge:

Great Company:At GEICO we help our customers through lifes twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and were constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

Were an iconic brand that thrives on innovation exceeding our customers expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one youll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on peoples lives.

Great Careers:We offer a career where you can learn grow and thrive through personalized development programs created with your career and your potential in mind. Youll have access to industry leading training certification assistance career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.

Great Culture:We foster an inclusive culture of shared success rooted in integrity a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values we have an an established culture of caring inclusion and belonging that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.

As part of our culture we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.

Great Rewards:We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being mental and emotional health and financial future.

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your familys overall well-being.
• Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
• Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
• Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.

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