Data Engineer - Staff Level

Skills :     Data Engineer

Job Description:

Why USAA?

At USAA, we have an important mission: facilitating the financial security of millions of U.S. military members and their families. Not all of our employees served in our nation’s military, but we all share in the mission to give back to those who did. We’re working as one to build a great experience and make a real impact for our members.

We believe in our core values of honesty, integrity, loyalty and service. They’re what guides everything we do – from how we treat our members to how we treat each other. Come be a part of what makes us so special!

The Opportunity

We are seeking a dedicated Data Engineer – Staff Level. We are seeking an experienced Data Engineer Staff for our Property and Casualty Insurance company to design, coordinate, and optimize all activities related to the development and implementation of the organization's data and analytics solutions. This master level engineer will drive systems modernization and delivery for data and analytics across the organization. Works in partnership with development teams supporting one or more lines of business or business functional areas.  Works closely with Lead Engineers to deliver streamlined solutions. Responsible for developing, distributing, supporting, enforcing, and integrating best practices and technology standards across the organization, including ensuring all Information Technology General Controls, Processes and Procedures are followed as applicable and appropriate.

This position is a hybrid work type and can be based in one of the following locations: San Antonio, TX; Plano, TX; Phoenix, AZ; Charlotte, NC. Hybrid roles help employees gain the best of both worlds – collaborating in-person in the office and working from home when needed to achieve focused results.

What you'll do:

• Provides guidance to teams to help design, build and manage data pipelines including data transformation, data models, schemas, metadata, data quality, and workload management.
• Provides expertise to re-engineer data processes to improve overall efficiency and business value.
• Reviews and provides feedback on data models and design considerations.
• Ensures that teams build processes that support effective data management, metadata management, and data quality.
• Documents and socializes findings on technology product evaluations and educates team on options available and preferences in technology selection.
• Mentors and coaches experienced engineers and provides business inputs and feedback to leadership.
• Leverages experience with large scale distributed processing systems to collaborate with architects and manage technology choices and implementation processes across multiple teams.
• Socializes best practices in secure data management, metadata management, information governance, compliance adherence and data quality with teams.
• Builds and oversees a team of employees for assigned functional area through ongoing execution of recruiting, development, retention, coaching and support, performance management, and managerial activities.
• Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

What you have:

• Bachelor’s Degree or 4 additional years of experience beyond the minimum requirement can be used in lieu of a degree.
• 10 years of data engineering, data analysis or software development experience implementing data solutions to include 4 years demonstrated technical leadership experience and/or leading teams.
• 4 years of data engineering or data management experience. 
• Knowledge of emerging and/or evolution of existing technologies.
• Demonstrated ability to act on all phases of the technology lifecycle.
• Strong ability to design, build and manage data pipelines for data structures encompassing data transformation, data models, schemas, metadata, and workload management.
• Experience with end to end delivering of data solutions that includes building, managing, and optimizing data pipelines across cloud environments; curating and modeling the data for various types of consumers/products and their pattern of usage to include data marts, data lake, and operational analytic applications.
• Experience completing multiple projects leveraging the agile methodology in delivering data.
• Subject matter Depth and Breadth in SQL and Relational Databases.
• Demonstrated experience implementing and maintaining cloud technology and solutions.

What sets you apart:

• Demonstrated experience being a thought leader and creating measurable value at the highest levels within the data engineering profession
• Experience creating high level data strategies and engineering best practices
• Experience with large scale system migrations preferably in a cloud environment
• Ability to demonstrate deep knowledge with Snowflake
• Public cloud experience, with a preference for AWS
• Experience with data build tool (dbt)
• Experience within the P&C domain
• Understanding of advance analytics and machine learning

The above description reflects the details considered necessary to describe the principal functions of the job and should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be performed in the job.

What we offer:

Compensation: USAA has an effective process for assessing market data and establishing ranges to ensure we remain competitive. You are paid within the salary range based on your experience and market data of the position. The actual salary for this role may vary by location. The salary range for this position is: $ 132,500.00 - $ 253,220.00.

Employees may be eligible for pay incentives based on overall corporate and individual performance and at the discretion of the USAA Board of Directors.

Benefits: At USAA our employees enjoy best-in-class benefits to support their physical, financial, and emotional wellness. These benefits include comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans, 401(k), pension, life insurance, parental benefits, adoption assistance, paid time off program with paid holidays plus 16 paid volunteer hours, and various wellness programs. Additionally, our career path planning and continuing education assists employees with their professional goals.

For more details on our outstanding benefits, please visit our benefits page on USAAjobs.com.

Relocation assistance is available for this position.

USAA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.