Data Engineer

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Position Summary

The Data Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining data pipelines that power the company’s Azure Databricks lakehouse for its property and casualty insurance business. Using technologies such as Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Lakeflow pipelines, and Databricks SQL, the Data Engineer delivers reliable, high-quality, well-tested, and well-documented data to support key business functions, including underwriting, claims, actuarial, and finance.

A key responsibility is developing and supporting data pipelines for the phased migration of data from Guidewire and legacy policy, claims, and billing systems into the Azure Databricks lakehouse. The Data Engineer ensures solutions align with the Unity Catalog governance framework and adhere to the engineering standards and best practices established by the Data Engineering Lead. The role also emphasizes knowledge sharing, technical ownership, and long-term sustainability by progressively assuming responsibility for contractor-developed pipelines, strengthening internal expertise, and building lasting in-house platform capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Build pipelines for the phased data migration from Guidewire (PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter, BillingCenter) and legacy systems into the lakehouse on Azure Databricks, including historical loads, incremental/CDC (Change Data Capture) loads and reconciliation.
• Develop bronze and silver layer transformations in PySpark and Spark SQL on Delta Lake, following the medallion architecture.
• Support modeling of property and casualty insurance data: policies, insured risks and exposures, coverages, endorsements, premiums, claims, reserves, payments and recoveries.
• Integrate third-party data sources such as geospatial and weather data.
• Schedule and run production pipelines with Databricks Workflows (Lakeflow Jobs) or Azure Data Factory, including job dependencies, parameters, retries and alerting; investigate and resolve pipeline failures.
• Apply Unity Catalog controls defined by the Data Engineering Lead and Data Governance lead, including permissions, PII (Personally Identifiable Information) masking, tags and lineage.
• Implement data quality checks, error handling and monitoring.
• Tune pipeline performance and cost, including partitioning, liquid clustering and right-sized job compute.
• Use Git version control (GitHub or Bitbucket) and CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment) with Databricks Asset Bundles to version, review and deploy code across development, test and production.
• Write documentation and runbooks, take part in code reviews, and take ownership of contractor-built pipelines over time.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Associate degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Certification in Databricks engineering
• Three or more years in data engineering, including one or more years hands-on with Databricks (PySpark, Spark SQL, Delta Lake)
• Experience with property and casualty insurance data, ideally Guidewire data; experience migrating data from legacy source systems
• Knowledge of Python/PySpark and SQL (Structured Query Language)
• Knowledge of Unity Catalog: permissions, row/column-level security and lineage
• Experience with incremental loading patterns such as CDC, MERGE, SCD (Slowly Changing Dimension) and Auto Loader
• Knowledge of data modeling, including dimensional modeling
• Experience scheduling and monitoring pipelines with Databricks Workflows and/or Azure Data Factory
• Experience with Git-based version control (GitHub or Bitbucket), including branching, pull request reviews and Databricks Git folders
• Experience with Azure data services such as ADLS (Azure Data Lake Storage) Gen2, Azure Data Factory and Key Vault
• Knowledge of CI/CD basics (Databricks Asset Bundles, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or Bitbucket Pipelines)
• Experience with streaming (Structured Streaming, Event Hubs)
• Experience with API (Application Programming Interface) and integration tools such as MuleSoft is an added advantage

Let’s talk benefits!

• Competitive Salary
• Bonus Structure
• Profit Sharing
• Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
• Employer Paid Short Term Disability
• Employer Paid Long Term Disability
• Employer Paid Life Insurance
• Voluntary Life Insurance
• 401K with Company Match
• PTO

About Builders

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