Principal Data Analytics Engineer

Tower Hill Insurance Group has an exciting opportunity for a talented Principal Data Analytics Engineer who enjoys intellectual challenges and is seeking a rewarding career with a company that is experiencing growth. Not only is Tower Hill Insurance one of Floridas most trusted names in homeowners insurance but it offers great opportunities for career advancement and personal growth along with very competitive benefits and rewards. We are growing at a consistent pace and seek professional individuals with drive team mentality who want to make an impact and are committed to a long-term career in the insurance industry.

The Principal Data Analytics Engineer is a hands-on technical leader responsible for owning and delivering complex data engineering projects end-to-end from business requirements gathering through production deployment. This role combines individual technical contribution with team leadership including directing data engineers on project execution representing the team in business stakeholder meetings and ensuring clear communication of technical outcomes to non-technical audiences. This position collaborates closely with the Data Engineering/AI/ML Leader across the analytics stack including pipeline orchestration cloud-native development and API-driven data services while taking ownership of project planning task breakdown and delivery coordination across engineering teams.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own the full project lifecycle for data engineering initiatives: gather requirements from business stakeholders define scope and success criteria decompose work into tasks assign and track execution across the data engineering team and deliver completed solutions to production.
• Train data engineers on project execution including task assignment technical guidance code review backlog prioritization and unblocking technical impediments to maintain delivery velocity.
• Represent the data engineering team in business meetings clearly communicating project status technical constraints timelines and trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders and leadership.
• Conduct technical design reviews and establish engineering standards that the data engineering team follows across projects.
• Serve as the primary technical liaison between business partners and engineering teams translating business requirements into well-scoped executable data initiatives with clear outcomes.
• Architect and develop cloud-native data solutions on AWS including the design and deployment of data pipelines using AWS Glue Airflow (Amazon MWAA) Step Functions Lambda and related services.
• Lead the migration and modernization of existing data workflows including the conversion of RPA-based automation into cloud-native orchestration solutions using AWS Airflow.
• Design develop and deploy RESTful and authenticated APIs on Kubernetes (K8s) to expose data services and other reusable data products consumed by downstream systems.
• Oversee and contribute to infrastructure-as-code practices using Terraform ensuring analytics and data engineering workloads are provisioned managed and repeatable across environments.
• Establish and enforce data pipeline best practices including data quality checks lineage tracking and governance standards across all projects under this roles scope.
• Monitor observe and maintain production data systems and pipelines using tools such as CloudWatch DataDog or Grafana as applicable
• Conduct exploratory and operational data analysis to surface deficiencies validate pipeline outputs and support data-driven decision making for business stakeholders.
• Define and communicate data architecture standards and patterns to both technical and non-technical audiences including documentation of architectural decisions and pipeline design.
• Collaborate on cross-cutting concerns such as data security infrastructure alignment and platform strategy.
• Coordinate with DevOps and infrastructure teams to ensure that data engineering deliverables align with CI/CD pipelines containerization standards and broader organizational engineering practices.

ADDITIONAL DUTIES

This job description reflects the general duties considered necessary to describe the essential functions of the job and should not be considered a complete description of all the work requirements and expectations of the position. Tower Hill reserves the right to assign duties not listed herein as necessary to accomplish the goals of the organization.

To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION

High School Diploma or GED required. Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field preferred.

EXPERIENCE

Minimum of seven (7) to ten (10) years of relevant work experience required in data engineering analytics or automation required including the following:

• Minimum of two (2) years of experience as a technical lead or team lead including work assignment technical mentoring and providing input on team performance and development.
• Track record of owning full project lifecycles from business requirement through production deployment delivered through a team rather than solely as an individual contributor including managing scope timelines and cross-functional dependencies.
• Proven ability to engage directly with business stakeholders to gather requirements scope data projects run status meetings and communicate technical outcomes in accessible non-technical terms.
• Advanced Python programming skills for data engineering automation and analytics including: data manipulation (pandas polars) AWS SDK integration (boto3) database connectivity (SQLAlchemy psycopg2) workflow orchestration (Apache Airflow providers) API development (FastAPI) data validation (Pydantic Great Expectations) testing frameworks and async programming for high-performance applications.
• Deep expertise with Apache Airflow and AWS Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) including DAG development scheduling strategies and operational best practices.
• Strong proficiency with AWS data services including Glue (ETL Data Catalog Crawlers) S3 Athena Lambda Step Functions and EventBridge

The following work experience is highly preferred:

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform CloudFormation) and CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions Azure DevOps Jenkins).
• Working knowledge of containerization (Docker) and orchestration (ECS Kubernetes) for data workloads.
• Experience implementing security frameworks and best practices for API development including authentication/authorization (OAuth 2.0 JWT SAML) API gateway security secrets management (AWS Secrets Manager Vault) encryption (TLS/SSL at-rest encryption) rate limiting and compliance with standards (OWASP API Security Top 10 SOC 2).
• Experience with Microsoft Power Platform specifically Power Automate (including Desktop flows for UI automation) and Power Apps or RPA platforms such as UiPath.
• Experience with real-time data streaming platforms such as Kinesis Kafka or Flink.

CERTIFICATIONS

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional and/or AWS Data Analytics Specialty preferred.

LICENSES

N/A

* Tower Hill currently operates in a hybrid work environment and may consider candidates located outside of our established office locations. We are presently open to hiring in the following states CT FL GA IA IN KY MI MS NC OH SC TN TX UT VA WV.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for current or future visa sponsorship.

Preferred work arrangement hybrid on-site but remote candidates will be considered based on qualifications and experience.

BENEFITS

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Life & Disability Insurance
• 401(k)
• Health Savings Account
• Accident Critical Illness and Hospital Indemnity
• Pet insurance
• Paid time off & Holiday pay

We offer competitive pay and benefits and well-being programs to support you and your family. For more information about our company careers and Total Compensation visit: Total Compensation - Tower Hill Insurance ()

Tower Hill Insurance is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws.

Tower Hill Insurance is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities. If you need reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process please send an e-mail to and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

All applicants will receive an acknowledgement that their application has been received. Candidates will not receive status updates regarding their application; however those candidates selected for further consideration will be contacted by Human Resources.