The Hartford

Director of Data Engineering, Data Science Team

The Hartford

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: HartfordConnecticutIllinoisUnited States

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Salary

💰 $156,000 - $234,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Actively lead and develop a team of data engineers to deliver and maintain reusable and sustainable data assets and production pipelines that assist the functional business units in meeting their strategic objectives
  • Collaborate with Data Scientists and Product Owners to advise approaches to business opportunities
  • Develop the design and vision for data pipelines and testing frameworks, both batch and real-time to meet business needs while balancing maintainability, reliability, security, and scalability.
  • Provide guidance on and independently navigate data warehouses, understand data architectures, and join disparate data sources to ensure quality and appropriateness of data solutions.
  • Lead the use and development of GitHub best practices for version control, documentation, and code collaboration throughout the data science lifecycle and ensure solutions align with best practices
  • Contribute to and execute a multi-year roadmap to build and remediate enterprise-grade data assets leveraging cloud-based target state technology and architecture
  • Drive disciplined innovation by balancing a relentless focus on delivering results and customer adoption with out-of-the-box thinking and a continuous improvement mindset
  • Coordinate activities with cross-functional IT unit stakeholders (e.g., database, operations, telecommunications, technical support, etc.)

Requirements

  • 8+ years of relevant experience recommended
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, MIS, or a related discipline
  • Experience in managing Data Engineering teams in an Agile environment
  • Experience designing and delivering scalable data engineering solutions that integrate GenAI capabilities and agentic AI systems
  • Expertise in Python and SQL
  • Expertise in ingesting data from a variety of structures including relational databases, Hadoop/Spark, cloud data sources, XML, JSON
  • Expertise in ETL concerning metadata management and data validation
  • Expertise in Unix and Git
  • Expertise in Automation tools (Autosys, Cron, Airflow, etc.)
  • Experience with AWS Services (i.e. S3, EMR, etc.) or GCP
  • Experience with Cloud data warehouses, automation, and data pipelines (i.e. Snowflake, Redshift) a plus
  • Able to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical teams
  • Able to translate complex technical topics into business solutions and strategies as well as turn business requirements into a technical solution
  • Experience with leading project execution and driving change to core business processes through the innovative use of quantitative techniques
  • Candidates must be authorized to work in the US without company sponsorship. The company will not support the STEM OPT I-983 Training Plan endorsement for this position.
Benefits
  • Bonuses
  • Short-term or annual bonuses
  • Long-term incentives
  • On-the-spot recognition
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonSQLETLUnixGitHadoopSparkAutomation toolsCloud data warehousesData validation
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationcollaborationinnovationproblem-solvingcustomer focuscontinuous improvementcross-functional coordinationtechnical translationproject execution