Lead Data Engineer - Python

Lead Data Engineer - Python

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The world isn’t standing still, and neither is Allstate. We’re moving quickly, looking across our businesses and brands and taking bold steps to better serve customers’ evolving needs. That’s why now is an exciting time to join our team. You’ll have opportunities to take risks, challenge the status quo and shape the future for the greater good.

You’ll do all this in an environment of excellence and the highest ethical standards – a place where values such as integrity, inclusive diversity and accountability are paramount. We empower every employee to lead, drive change and give back where they work and live. Our people are our greatest strength, and we work as one team in service of our customers and communities.

Everything we do at Allstate is driven by a shared purpose: to protect people from life’s uncertainties so they can realize their hopes and dreams. For more than 89 years we’ve thrived by staying a step ahead of whatever’s coming next – to give customers peace of mind no matter what changes they face. We acted with conviction to advocate for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws. We help give survivors of domestic violence a voice through financial empowerment. We’ve been an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, digital photo claims and, more recently, device and identity protection. We are the Good Hands. We don’t follow the trends. We set them.

Job Description

Job Summary:


This role is responsible for the design of data engineering projects, pipeline & proof of concept business solutions for users in analytics and data science. This person works directly with business users, actuaries, data scientists, and analytic engineers on needs and tactical solutions. This role will execute new ETL work tracks for Data Science and analytics from inception and prototyping to fully developed solutions. This role reports into the Pricing organization.

Key Responsibilities

  • Work closely with Data Science and business partners to take defined Data Science and analytic data engineering needs and bring them from ideation to working pilots and deliverables.
  • As team expert, provide direction to peers or AOR partners on technical solutions. Understand the changing analytic needs of users and Data Scientists and assists in the development of goals, and tracks of work to meet those needs. 
  • Partner on new ideas and initiatives, and executes rapid development of new data and analytic work tracks with fast iteration over quick sprints
  • Leverage data analysis with technology fluency in parallel processing/programming, software/programming languages and (i.e. Oracle, SQL, Python, Spark, R, Object Storage, and Hadoop) paired with a high degree of analytic agility to meet fluid and dynamic business needs in this space 
  • Support and develop the data engineering pipelines required to support needs of predictive modeling and analytics. Support the environment; implement monitoring, quality and validation processes to ensure data accuracy. 
  • Development of enterprise data assets, information platforms or data spaces designed for exploring and understanding the data. 
  • Execute data exploration, data engineering, testing and implementation. 
  • Development of prototypes for business or research solutions and ensures prototypes meet the organization standards, so that business users may visually understand and explore a new feature or functionality, before implementation, to expose design assumptions and drive ideation. 
  • Develop test plans and scripts, preparation of test data, reconciliation of data sources, and execution of functional tests. 
  • Mentor and lead other team members in a business technical environment and creates/promotes an environment that supports innovation and process improvement.  
     

Supervisory Responsibilities:

  • This job may have supervisory responsibilities.

Job Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications:

Education and Experience

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
  • 8 or more years of related experience

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

  • None

Functional Skills

  • Proficient development experience in data projects and knowledge  with ability to learn new database technologies
  • Advanced engineering, data sourcing, and data management skills  
  • Advanced programming skills (i.e. Python, R, and SQL) with ability to learn new technologies  
  • Unix proficiency 
  • Ability to extract data and work with various data sources 
  • Ability to learn and teach new technologies  
  • Experience in designing and managing the nuances of an array of data sources
  • Strong attention to detail  
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills including the ability to effectively collaborate with multi-disciplinary groups and all organizational levels
     

Compensation Data

The minimum salary for this position is $103,000. The maximum salary is $140,000. The salary offered will be commensurate with experience. This position is bonus-eligible.

The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation, which includes a drug screen.

Good Work. Good Life. Good Hands®.

As a Fortune 100 company and industry leader, we provide a competitive salary – but that’s just the beginning. Our Total Rewards package also offers benefits like tuition assistance, medical and dental insurance, as well as a robust pension and 401(k). Plus, you’ll have access to a wide variety of programs to help you balance your work and personal life -- including a generous paid time off policy. For a full description of Allstate’s benefits, visit allstate.jobs/benefits/

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