Senior Data AI Engineer
Chicago, IL - USA
Job Summary
You have a clear vision of where your career can go. And we have the leadership to help you get there.At CNA we strive to create a culture in which people know they matter and are part of something important ensuring the abilities of all employees are used to their fullest potential.
Senior Data/AI Engineer is an individual contributor role responsible for designing building and modernizing production-grade data pipelines and data solutions across hybrid cloud and on-premise environments. The role applies expertise in AI-assisted development tools strong engineering judgment and modern data engineering practices to integrate structured semi-structured and unstructured data across complex enterprise ecosystems leveraging both legacy platforms and cloud-native technologies to deliver scalable secure resilient and high-quality solutions that improve speed to delivery operational reliability and business value.JOB DESCRIPTION:
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
Performs a combination of duties in accordance with departmental guidelines:
Serves as a key team member who delivers results and creates value for the CNA brand customers and internal stakeholders while collaborating effectively with external and offshore resources as needed.
Demonstrate hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools to accelerate engineering tasks such as pipeline creation code generation testing and troubleshooting
Apply strong engineering judgment when working with AI-generated outputs ensuring alignment with enterprise standards for quality security and data handling
Design and build data pipelines that support multi-modal data including structured semi-structured and unstructured sources (e.g. transactional data documents and external data feeds)
Build and modernize data pipelines across hybrid environments (on-premiseand cloud) incorporating automation observability and resiliency by design
Designs builds and enhances large-scale data processing systems and data lakes on Google Cloud Platformoptimizing forcomputational and storage efficiency while applying strongexpertisein data modeling and engineering best practices.
Operate effectively in complex multi-entity and multi-national system landscapes integrating internal platforms and external data providers
Bring familiarity with both legacy enterprise data tools (e.g. ETL/ELT platforms relational databases) and modern cloud-native data and integration services
This role is not focused on experimentation alone it is focused on applying AI in a disciplined production-grade engineering environment to drive measurable improvements in delivery speed quality and operational reliability
May lead or sub-lead the design of complex physical data models projects and cloud-based data lake constructs including SQL/NoSQL database systems.
May lead or sub-lead the creation of integrated data views based on business or analytics requirements.
May lead or sub-lead robust unit testing to ensure deliverables match the design and provideexpertiseto supportsubsequentrelease testing.
Actively adheres toestablishedquality and reliability standards and ensures team adheres to the same quality and standards working in an Agile development environment.
Researchidentifiesandimplementsprocess improvements that address complex technology gaps. Builds strong knowledge of technology enablers.
May lead or sub-lead the design and building of data solutions and applications that enable reporting analytics data science and data management.
Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications;establishingpersonal networks;participatingin professional societies. Drives the evolution of CNA application development processes and standards.
May perform additional duties as assigned.
Reporting Relationship
Typically Director or above
Skills Knowledge & Abilities
Strong knowledge of data architecture relational and NoSQL database concepts ETL/ELT patterns dimensional modeling metadata and data quality frameworks for enterprise-scale data solutions.
Strong experience designing and building scalable data integration and pipeline solutions with a focus on accuracy observability resiliency performance optimization and ease of consumption.
Proficiencyin Python and advanced SQL for large-scale complex datasets with hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools to accelerate coding testing troubleshooting and engineering productivity.
Strong communication collaboration and stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to apply sound engineering judgment and work effectively across highly matrixed cross-functional and global teams.
Preferred experience building data and analytics solutions on Google Cloud Platform including services such asBigQuery Cloud Storage DataflowDataproc Pub/Sub and Cloud Composer or equivalent cloud-native data technologies.
Preferred experience in insurance and financial services including familiarity with regulatory risk underwriting claims customer and operational data domains.
Experience with big data and distributed processing technologies hybrid cloud andon-premiseenvironments and modern engineering practices including automation testing CI/CD and secure data handling.
Working knowledge of business intelligence reporting and analytics enablement tools with an understanding of data governance lineage monitoring and controls needed to support trusted production-grade data products.
Education & Experience
Bachelors degree withMasterspreferred in Computer Science Information Technology relateddisciplineor equivalent work experience.
Typically5 years of experience in dataanalyticsor application development.
2 years of codingproficiencyin at least one programming language (Python Java SQL).
Experience using Agile methods preferred.
Applicable certifications preferred (GCP Data Engineering).
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