MetLife · 3 weeks ago
Principal Data Architect & Data Modeler
Bridgewater, NJ
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
$130K/yr - $209K/yr
8+ years expMetLife is one of the world’s leading financial services companies, providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits, and asset management. The Principal Data Architect & Data Modeler plays a critical role in the data and analytics lifecycle, focusing on architecting and designing data solutions while demonstrating expertise in data management and engineering.
Asset ManagementFinancial ServicesInsuranceLife InsuranceRisk Management
Responsibilities
Design and solution end to end data architecture for data hubs/data products and Salesforce data all the way from source systems to consumption via Salesforce, web applications and reporting & analytics solutions
Solve complex problems using data and advanced technologies
Own/Approve data models for data domains within the US Group Benefits business
Design data pipelines for analytical/operational needs
Ideate, Solution and lead to building reusable data frameworks for enterprise
Lead POCs to evaluate new technologies, Data products, Salesforce products and solutions as needed
Provide oversight for ongoing initiatives and ensure adherence to defined architecture, quality, security, and compliance guidelines, policies and standards
Build, optimize and troubleshoot ETL/ELT pipelines to ingest and store large volumes of structured and unstructured data for batch/real time processing
Define and develop data standards, guidelines, patterns and recommendations to be used across the organization
Collaborate with multiple partners from Business, Technology, Operations and D&A capabilities (Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Modeling, Enterprise Architecture, Data science, DevOps, BI & insights)
Independently lead design, solutioning & estimations
Qualification
Required
8+ years of overall related experience
Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology or equivalent educational qualification
Data architecture (traditional – examples include Oracle & SQL Server + modern – examples include AWS & Azure) and knowledge of Salesforce data architecture patterns
Data Modeling for OLTP & OLAP systems using various data modeling techniques
ETL pipeline design and development; solutioning and estimation
Knowledge of data quality and governance practices
Knowledge of BI Tools (Tableau, Power BI etc)
Experience with Big Data and Cloud Frameworks: Apache Spark, Hadoop, and Hive
Exposure and knowledge of the following: Azure data factory, Synapse and/or Databricks
Data Warehouses, data marts, data lakes
Data integration strategies using APIs and ETL tools
Expertise in core data management processes
Preferred
Exposure to Gen AI technology and tools
Performance tuning, optimization, and data quality validation
Real-time and batch data processing, streaming pipelines with Spark
Banking Financial Services and Insurance domain knowledge
Experience with EventHub and Azure functions, Azure data factory, Synapse and Databricks
DevOps practices: Git, Azure Dev Ops, CI/CD pipelines
Unix shell scripting, Kafka, MongoDB, Nifi, containerization
Benefits
Comprehensive health plan that includes medical/prescription drug and vision
Dental insurance
No-cost short- and long-term disability
Company-paid life insurance
Legal services
A retirement pension funded entirely by MetLife
401(k) with employer matching
Group discounts on voluntary insurance products including auto and home, pet, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accident insurance
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Digital mental health programs
Parental leave
Volunteer time off
Tuition assistance
Company
MetLife
MetLife is a provider of insurance, employee benefits, and financial services .
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$500M2024-06-20Post Ipo Debt· $500M
2000-04-14IPO
Leadership Team
Michel A. Khalaf
President & CEO, MetLife, Inc.
Koley Corte
Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer - Institutional, Regional, Global Insights+Analytics
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