Senior Data Engineer - Brighton, MA 02135 - 4 days onsite

Role: Senior Data Engineer

Location: Brighton, MA 02135 4 days onsite

Full Time Role

Job description:

You'll build scalable data pipelines to power insurance analytics. Preference for candidates with insurance domain expertise.

Some of your key responsibilities include:

1. At least 8 to 10 years of overall IT experience. 5+ years of relevant experience in design and development complete end-end to design of enterprise-wide big data solution.
2. Experience in designing & developing a big data solution using Spark, Scala, AWS Glue, Lambda is a must.
3. Strong Application development experience in Java/Scala/Python.
4. Strong Database SQL experience, preferably Redshift or Snowflake.
5. Acts as a Technical Leader and mentor to the team.
6. Experience in Insurance or Investment Management functions is highly preferred.
7. Advise on architectural decisions and design.
8. Participate in design workshops.
9. Create integration and application technical design documentation.
10. Conduct peer-reviews of functional design documentation
11. Provide guidance on intended solution and best practices during development, configuration, and testing phases.
12. Complete development, configuration, and unit testing of high complexity areas
13. Perform code reviews and ensure standards are applied to each solution component.
14. Resolve complex defects during testing phases.
15. Provide guidance to developers in resolving defects.
16. Support and execute performance testing.
17. Provides guidance on infrastructure and environment setup.
18. Production Support: Assist in troubleshooting production environment and tuning environments.
19. Ensures best practices are followed from a technical perspective during all phases of the project.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will be responsible for:

1. Developing our application - by delivering new features according to the business requirements, ensuring their high quality and timely delivery. We expect you to develop maintainable, well-documented solutions, with an eye toward standardization, reusability, simplicity, performance, robustness, and other attributes of enterprise-strength solutions.
2. Contributing to the application design - creating Proofs of Concepts or prototypes when needed, contributing to technical design of applications, helping to choose the right tech stack, choosing, and applying system integration patterns, contributing to DB & data model design.
3. Helping to define application requirements - using your technical expertise to work with business analysts, business representatives and other stakeholders to define requirements.
4. Thorough validation of the developed system by utilizing advanced techniques and comprehensive testing approach (e.g. negative testing, testing boundary conditions, etc.), and working with the business stakeholders to support UAT testing.
5. Supporting our business stakeholders with your technical expertise - replying to inquiries, investigating, and resolving encountered issues, addressing production incidents, and maintaining a helpful, "high-touch" approach to working with our business users.
6. Following and improving Agile practices - participating in Scrum Development team, encouraging others to follow the rules of Agile development, continuously improving our development methodology.