About Mission Underwriting Services
At Mission Underwriters, we provide the capital, issuing paper, and reinsurance access you need to launch your own Program Administrator (PA) business quickly and efficiently. We offer non-recourse capital for qualified underwriters, giving you a manageable risk profile with potential equity upside. By taking care of administrative complexities like compliance, risk management, accounting, and HR, we free you to focus on what you do best—underwriting and distribution. Our turnkey platform gets you into the market in just a few months, minimizing disruption to your key relationships. With access to our network of highly rated issuing carriers and reinsurance partners, you can secure coverage with less stress and uncertainty. Built from the ground up, our purpose-driven technology simplifies workflows, enhances responsiveness, and eliminates the burden of outdated legacy systems.
What We Offer:
- Remote First Work Environment (US Based)
- Medical, Dental, Vision
- 401K, 401K Match
- Life and Disability Benefits
- Unaccrued Paid Time Off
- 11 Paid Holidays
- Employee Discounts
- Employee Assistance Program
- Educational Assistance Program
- Employee Referral Program
- Paid Parental Leave
About the Role
The Data Engineer will support the development and optimization of Mission’s data infrastructure as part of our modern data platform initiative. This hands-on role will focus on implementing scalable data pipelines, enabling a centralized enterprise data warehouse, and supporting business reporting needs. The ideal candidate will collaborate across technology, operations, product, and analytics teams to deliver high-quality, governed, and reusable data assets in alignment with Mission’s long-term architecture.
What You'll Do
- Contribute to the implementation of scalable data pipelines to ingest, transform, and store data from third-party vendors and internal systems using APIs, files, and databases.
- Support the development of a cloud-based data warehouse solution in partnership with architects, ensuring clean, normalized, and performant data models.
- Establish and monitor reliable data ingestion processes across systems with varying grain and cadence, ensuring data quality and completeness.
- Collaborate with API and integration teams to develop secure, robust data exchange processes with external vendors and internal services.
- Set up and manage data connections from the warehouse to BI tools (e.g., Power BI, Looker, Tableau) to enable self-service analytics and dashboarding.
- Document data flows, schemas, and definitions, and help drive data governance and standardization efforts across the organization.
- Implement data validation, cleansing, and enrichment processes to ensure high-quality data for financial reporting and analytics
- Ensure compliance with data standards, regulatory requirements (e.g., NAIC, SOX), and data security best practices
- Collaborate with senior team members to apply data engineering best practices, including version control, CI/CD for data pipelines, testing, and observability.
· Assist with building dashboards in BI tools.
Required Qualifications
- 2-5 years of experience in data engineering, data warehousing, or a related field.
- Strong SQL and performance tuning skills, ideally in Microsoft SQL Server environments.
- Experience working with data warehouses or data marts using dimensional modeling.
- Familiar with data ingestion via RESTful APIs, JSON/XML, flat files, message queues, or CDC.
- Understanding of data governance, metadata management, and access control.
- Experience with version control (e.g., Git) and basic CI/CD workflows.
- Experience with BI tools like Power BI, Looker, or Tableau.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualification
- Experience in the commercial insurance industry or with regulated data environments.
- Hands-on experience with Azure data services.
- Familiarity with data cleanup, fuzzy matching, or enrichment workflows.
- Experience with Python, dbt, or Azure Functions.
- Strong communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally.
- Ability to travel up to 10% of the year.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Understanding of data warehousing principles, dimensional modeling, and ETL/ELT architecture, with hands-on experience building analytics-ready structures preferably in Azure SQL and SSMS.
- Ability to interpret business concepts in P&C insurance industry to inform data modeling.
- Proficient in building scalable data pipelines using Azure Data Factory and SQL.
- Skilled in integrating with diverse data sources and managing ingestion at different grains.
- Familiar with core Azure services supporting cloud-native data engineering workflows.
- Able to model and prepare data for downstream BI tools and support dashboard creation.
Additional Information
This is a remote position. Planned, in-office activities may be required on occasion (typically 2-4x per year).
You must live in the United States and be authorized to work in the United States without requirement of employment sponsorship/visa.
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What We Do
We are globally underwriting a new era.
We unite talented underwriters, smart infrastructure, and capital to launch and scale specialist MGAs. Our model gives brokers instant access to sharp, responsive underwriting teams who deliver tailored solutions without the red tape.
We move fast, think differently, and help our partners grow smarter.
