Job Description

JOB DESCRIPTION


JOB TITLE: Senior Data Engineer / Low-code Data Solution Engineer


GENERAL SUMMARY


The Technology team utilizes best practice design techniques to deliver business applications, workflow automation, analytics, data management, and more. We work closely with business teams to translate their requirements into technology solutions, empower them to work more efficiently and deliver a superior service to our customers.


As a Senior Data Engineer, you are responsible for expanding and improving our data and data pipeline architecture, as well as enhancing data flows and data collection to ensure our data delivery architecture is optimal, safe, compliant and consistent throughout initiatives. As the key interface to operationalize data and analytics, this role requires collaborative skills to evangelize business stakeholders of effective data & analytics practices, and help data consumers optimize their models for quality, security and governance.


You are an experienced data wrangler who enjoys optimizing existing data systems or building them from scratch. You are autonomous and comfortable supporting the data needs of multiple teams and products.


PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES


1. Build data pipelines: Architecting, creating, maintaining and optimizing data pipelines is the primary responsibility of the data engineer.


2. Drive automation through effective metadata management: automate the most common, repeatable and tedious data preparation and integration tasks, in order to minimize manual processes and errors and improve productivity. The data engineer also assists with renovating the data management infrastructure to drive automation in data integration and management.


3. Collaborate across departments: work collaboratively with varied stakeholders (notably data analysts and scientists) to refine their data consumption requirements.


4. Educate & train: be knowledgeable about how to address data topics, including using data & domain understanding to address new data requirements, proposing innovative data ingestion, preparation, integration and operationalization, and training stakeholders in data pipelining & preparation


5. Participate in ensuring compliant data use: ensure that data users and consumers use the data provisioned to them responsibly. Work with data governance teams, and participate in vetting and promoting content to the curated data catalog for governed reuse.


6. Become a data and analytics evangelist: The data engineer is a blend of "analytics evangelist", "data guru" and "fixer." This role will promote the available data and analytics capabilities and expertise to business leaders to help them leverage these capabilities in achieving business goals.


JOB SPECIFICATIONS


Education and Experience


Required:

6+ years of work experience in data management including Big Data processing, ETL frameworks, data integration, optimization and data quality, of which 3+ years supporting data and analytics initiatives for cross-functional teams Responsible for designing, building, and testing several complex ETL workflows preferably using Alteryx. Experienced with SQL/NoSQL databases, structured and unstructured data processing. Experienced with SQL optimization and performance tuning. Experienced with Logical and Physical data modeling and exposure to data modeling tools. Foundational knowledge of various data management architectures like data warehouse, data lake and data hub, and supporting processes like data integration, data governance, data lineage and metadata management. Experienced with:

o Big Data processing tools and frameworks


o Data preparation/ETL tools (Alteryx,Informatica,Datastage, ...)


o Data Visualisation tools (Power BI, Tableau, ...)


o Working with SQL on Hadoop tools and technologies (HIVE, Impala, Presto ,...)


o Agile Development


o Public Cloud data environments (AWS,Azure,...) OR hybrid environments.

Preferred to have experience on:

o Any programming languages (JAVA,Python,Node.js,...)


o DevOps capabilities like version control, automated builds, testing and release management capabilities with Git, Jenkins.


o CI/CD deployment practices.


o Certification on Alteryx, Tableau or similar tools


o Low-code platform (e.g.: Power Automate, UiPath, Retool, etc.)

Bachelor's degree in STEM or a related technical field, or equivalent work experience


Skills and Abilities


Required:

Strong experience collaborating with a wide range of IT and business stakeholders Strong verbal and written communication demonstrating ability to efficiently share information, influence decisions, negotiate and network Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills, with a strategic view to conceive solutions that adapt over time or can be reused across different initiatives Organizational skills with attention to details and great documentation skills Ability to adapt quickly to new methods and work under tight deadlines Ability to set goals and handle multiple tasks, stakeholders and projects simultaneously Ability to bridge deep data infrastructure, governance with low-code agility to build scalable data foundations and rapidly deploy applications that turn complex reinsurance data into actionable insights for business teams.

WORKING AT RGA


RGA Empowers Employees. It's one thing to hire smart people, it's another to empower them. This is one of the most important differences between RGA and its competitors. We empower our employees to use their intelligence and creativity to find solutions for our customers. To be proactive in their approach to bringing value to our customers.


PHYSICAL / MENTAL REQUIREMENTS AND WORKING CONDITIONS


The duties listed above are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related or a logical assignment to the position.


While performing the duties of the job, the employee is frequently required to talk and communicate with others. The employee is regularly required to feel objects, tools, controls or to keyboard. Vision abilities are required to perform duties such as analyzing data and figures and viewing a computer terminal. The employee is not exposed to adverse environmental conditions.


The job description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and employee and is subject to change by the employer as job requirements evolve.

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