Data Engineer I

Unum UK

Data Engineer designing and building data systems and pipelines for analytics and visualization at Unum. Collaborating with data scientists and business partners to solve complex business problems.

Posted 5/21/2026full-timeColumbia • Maine, South Carolina, Tennessee • 🇺🇸 United StatesJuniorMid-Level💰 $60,500 - $123,400 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ETLPythonSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build and maintain data systems and pipelines
Ensure data is accessed and utilized optimally for analytics or visualization/insight generation
Build and execute data engineering approaches to support business priorities
Integrate varying sizes of data from different sources (including Snowflake, Fineos, Web API and Teradata)
Create data assets that conform to scalability, extensibility, performance and maintainability requirements for the problem at hand
Understand and contribute to the evolution of the enterprise data architecture
Support integration of solutions within existing business processes using automation techniques
Provide support to lower level Data Engineer peers

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in quantitative field or equivalent experience
2 years of professional experience or equivalent relevant work experience preferred
Knowledge in all of the following skillsets and deep expertise in at least two: Data Engineering, Data Architecture and Infrastructure, Holistic Data Preparation, Data Extraction, Transform & Load, Domain Knowledge
Experience with at least one relevant ETL toolset (IICS, Python, SnowSQL, etc.)
Understanding of data architecture principles and related infrastructure requirements
Experience in writing complex SQL queries that join multiple tables/databases
Ability to troubleshoot complex SQL queries with little guidance
Deep understanding of Fineos and experience with Snowflake Cortex AI preferred.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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 *All the benefits listed above are subject to the terms of their individual Plans.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Data EngineeringData ArchitectureData ExtractionTransform & LoadSQLETLData PreparationAutomation TechniquesData PipelinesData Systems

Soft Skills

TroubleshootingCollaborationSupportCommunicationProblem Solving