Senior Data Engineer

Job Posting End Date: November 16

When you join the team at Unum you become part of an organization committed to helping you thrive.

Here we work to provide the employee benefits and service solutions that enable employees at our client companies to thrive throughout lifes moments. And this starts with ensuring that every one of our team members enjoys opportunities to succeed both professionally and personally. To enable this we provide:

• Award-winning culture

• Inclusion and diversity as a priority

• Performance Based Incentive Plans

• Competitive benefits package that includes: Health Vision Dental Short & Long-Term Disability

• Generous PTO (including paid time to volunteer!)

• Up to 9.5% 401(k) employer contribution

• Mental health support

• Career advancement opportunities

• Student loan repayment options

• Tuition reimbursement

• Flexible work environments

And thats just the beginning

With 10000 employees helping more than 39 million people worldwide every role at Unum is meaningful and impacts the lives of our customers. Whether youre directly supporting a growing family or developing online tools to help navigate a difficult loss customers are counting on the combined talents of our entire team. Help us help others and join Team Unum today!

This position is for an experienced Senior Data Engineer who will serve as a hands-on technical lead for data engineering across assigned Value Streams providing technical leadership across at least two Value Streams translating enterprise architecture standards patterns and governance guardrails into detailed production-ready designs that engineering teams can successfully implement.

This is a 100% hands-on technical role. The Senior Data Engineer will actively design solutions solve complex engineering challenges make key technical decisions review code and implementations and guide engineers through delivery. The role will lead by doing not simply coordinate the work.

The Senior Data Engineer will lead the design and delivery of complex data pipelines ETL/ELT processes data warehouses data marts data models and integration solutions using technologies including Snowflake SQL Python and modern ETL/ELT tooling.

This individual will partner closely with architects product owners engineers analysts and business stakeholders to deliver scalable reliable secure and maintainable data solutions. They will also play an important role in Value Stream transformation by establishing engineering best practices leading design and code reviews mentoring engineers and driving consistency and technical excellence across teams.

Job Specifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Systems or a related technical field preferred.
• 6 years of experience in Data Engineering Software Engineering Data Integration or related technical disciplines.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience designing and building complex data pipelines ETL/ELT solutions data warehouses data marts and data models in large-scale enterprise environments.
• Strong hands-on expertise with Snowflake SQL Python and modern ETL/ELT technologies.
• Experience working with cloud data platforms and integrating data through APIs batch near-real-time and real-time integration patterns.
• Deep knowledge of data modeling data integration patterns solution design and modern data engineering practices.
• Demonstrated ability to translate enterprise architecture patterns standards and guardrails into detailed scalable production-ready technical designs.
• Proven experience serving as a hands-on technical lead including making design decisions conducting design and code reviews solving complex engineering problems and guiding engineers through implementation.
• Strong understanding of DevOps and CI/CD practices Git automated testing automation deployment and operational excellence.
• Experience delivering solutions within complex enterprise data environments involving multiple systems platforms and data sources.
• Familiarity with legacy data platforms such as Teradata and DB2 is beneficial particularly within modernization or transformation environments.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and influence technical direction while remaining actively involved in engineering delivery.
• Strong problem-solving communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to balance technical quality delivery objectives and business outcomes.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Serve as the hands-on technical lead for data engineering across assigned Value Streams providing technical direction across at least two Value Streams.
• Lead the design and implementation of complex data engineering solutions including data pipelines ETL/ELT processes data warehouses data marts data models and enterprise data assets.
• Translate enterprise architecture standards patterns and governance guardrails into detailed scalable and implementable technical designs.
• Actively contribute to solution design and engineering troubleshooting complex technical challenges and guiding solutions through implementation and production.
• Make key technical design decisions and lead design and code reviews to ensure solutions meet scalability reliability security performance and maintainability standards.
• Lead complex integrations across cloud on-premises internal and external data sources including batch near-real-time real-time and API-based integrations.
• Partner with architects product owners analysts engineers and business stakeholders to understand requirements and determine appropriate technical solutions.
• Establish and promote engineering best practices for data modeling integration automation testing performance optimization deployment and operational support.
• Guide engineers through implementation and provide hands-on technical coaching and mentoring to strengthen engineering capabilities across teams.
• Support Value Stream transformation through the adoption of modern data engineering patterns technologies and development practices.
• Apply approved AI-enabled tools where appropriate to improve engineering productivity quality and delivery.

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Unum and Colonial Life are part of Unum Group a Fortune 500 company and leading provider of employee benefits to companies worldwide. Headquartered in Chattanooga TN with international offices in Ireland Poland and the UK Unum also has significant operations in Portland ME - plus over 35 US field offices. Colonial Life is headquartered in Columbia SC with over 40 field offices nationwide.

Unum is an equal opportunity employer considering all qualified applicants and employees for hiring placement and advancement without regard to a persons race color religion national origin age genetic information military status gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression disability or protected veteran status.

The base salary range for applicants for this position is listed below. Unless actual salary is indicated above in the job description actual pay will be based on skill geographical location and experience.

$98340.00-$201900.00

Additionally Unum offers a portfolio of benefits and rewards that are competitive and comprehensive including healthcare benefits (health vision dental) insurance benefits (short & long-term disability) performance-based incentive plans paid time off and a 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match up to 5% and an additional 4.5% contribution whether you contribute to the plan or not. All benefits are subject to the terms and conditions of individual Plans.

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