Associate Data Engineer

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Member of the Hiscox US IT Team Data Engineering practice

Position: Associate Data Engineer

Reporting to: Director of Data Engineering

Location: Atlanta, New York, Chicago, West Hartford, Boston (Hybrid/Remote/Office)

The Role:

You will be a member of our US Data Engineering practice. You will be joining an exciting team and working on a modern cloud data platform that has been built the right way. In this early career role, you will be constantly learning, honing your craft and bringing fresh thinking to our team.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Working with business stakeholders and our delivery team to understand high value business problems that can be solved through the application of data processing and analytical systems

• Developing, expanding and evolving our data platform and transformation pipelines.

• Understand business requirements and help refine into development tasks and estimate their complexity

• Research, evaluate and adopt new technologies with a right tool for the job mentality.

• Focus on both speed of delivery and quality, with suitable pragmatism – ensuring your solutions are always appropriate and not too complex or over-engineered.

• Quick progression of projects from proof-of-concept to post-production stage.

• Communication and presentation of ideas to colleagues in all parts of the wider tech team.

• Participating in code reviews for the data engineering practice.

• Adopting a growth mindset to continuously improve your skills and finding the right niche in our team to get the most from your aptitude and enthusiasm.

Essential Skills:

• Knowledge of, or ability to rapidly adopt our core languages for data engineering – SQL and/or Python.

• Experience working using a modern DevOps approach. You should not just have written data code but also worked with the CI/CD pipelines necessary to test and deploy that code.

• A robust understanding of core data engineering topics – ETL vs ELT, structured and unstructured data and data quality.

• Ability to contribute to all aspects of a solution – design, infrastructure, development, testing and maintenance.

• The ability to design and advocate for technical solutions to business problems.

• Effective collaboration with technical and non-technical team members through agile ceremonies – roadmap planning, feature workshops, backlog elaboration, code review.

• An understanding of cloud technology and how to build cloud-native solutions.

• Track record of taking initiative and delivering projects end-to-end; clear evidence of being self-driven and motivated

• Immense curiosity, high energy and desire to go the extra mile to make a difference.

Desirable Skills:

Beyond the required skills we are open to individuals of diverse talents. Experience with additional technologies, data science knowledge or a business background are all valued. We want to know how your unique abilities can contribute to our team.

Our Technology:

We operate in a diverse technical landscape and are looking for flexible engineers who can adapt to and use many different tools. We would not expect any engineer to be familiar with the entire tech stack – no engineer can. Instead, we seek people with a good understanding of data structures and algorithms and the ability to apply this knowledge in learning new tools.

We have built a modern cloud data platform to realise the full value of our data. It is based on Databricks and we use dbt for transformation. We surface data for use by analysts working primarily in PowerBI.

We take a DevOps approach and strive for continuous integration / continuous deployment. We use Azure Pipelines to deploy our code. We deploy infrastructure the same way using Terraform and Docker.

Our technology landscape is not complete. Our engineering teams will be able and required to help us build out our technology stack to fill gaps and embrace new opportunities.

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary and bonus (based on personal & company performance)

• 401(k) with competitive company matching

• Comprehensive health insurance, vision, dental and FSA plans (medical, limited purpose, and dependent care)

• Company paid group term life, short- term disability and long-term disability coverage

• 24 Paid time off days plus 2 Hiscox days, 10 paid holidays plus 1 paid floating holiday, and ability to purchase 5 PTO days

• Paid parental leave

• 4-week paid sabbatical after every 5 years of service

• Financial Adoption Assistance and Medical Travel Reimbursement Programs

• Annual reimbursement up to $600 for health club membership or fees associated with any fitness program

• Company paid subscription to Headspace to support employees’ mental health and wellbeing

• Recipient of 2021 Cigna’s Well-Being Award for having a best-in-class health and wellness program

• Dynamic, creative and values-driven culture

• Modern and open office spaces, complimentary drinks

• Spirit of volunteerism, social responsibility and community involvement, including matching charitable donations for qualifying non-profits via our sister non-profit company, the Hiscox USA Foundation

Salary: $90-$110k

The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment.

**Please note that this position is hybrid and requires two (2) days in our office weekly**

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