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EMC Insurance Companies · 8 hours ago

Senior Data Platform Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$102K/yr - $146K/yr

8+ years exp

EMC Insurance Companies is committed to working together to make an impact. They are seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to guide the Data Platform Engineers on complex projects, ensuring the operationalization of production data environments and delivery of data services.

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Responsibilities

Guides the Data Platform Engineers on highly complex projects related to fully operationalizing EMC's production data environments including alerting and monitoring, continuous integration/delivery/deployment (CI/CD) processes, data lifecycle and change management

Tracks, reviews work in progress and completed assignments for projects within areas of expertise and follows up with team to ensure solutions created meet stakeholder needs and deadline for all technical delivery of project work per quarterly goals

Guides team during planning in selecting tasks needed to deliver data services based on priorities set by stakeholders and team roadmap

Leads planning and execution of strategic initiatives as requested by stakeholders and defined in DPO roadmap

Ensures delivery of assigned projects required for completion of DPO team enablement initiatives

Collaborates with Data Analytics Architecture Director to define and implement shared services solutions to support Data Analytics Product (DAP) teams. Performs work and guides DPO team members in the following areas:

Operational Data Management – creates and maintains a central repository for logs to create metrics, observability, and incident root cause identification

Data Lake – leads the storage of data product files, enabling access as appropriate

Analytics Sandbox – provides guidelines for access, use, and data retention, monitors growth and organization of assets. Collaborates with Actuary, Data Science, and other teams for effective use of the sandbox

Cost of Ownership – creates automated methods for gathering information necessary for producing metrics to analyze costs per data technology, development team, and/or business process

Creates and documents guidelines and procedures used by the DPO team members in the following areas:

Data Access and Security – administers functional and resource roles, data discovery/classification and loss prevention

Data Lifecycle and Change Management – leads development of data retention policies, archival and purge processes, change management for reference data, data models, and metadata

Data Governance and Quality - supports corporate governance strategy, data profiling and score cards

Data Masking - masks data when required to reduce the risk of exposing sensitive data in queries or reports

Data Operations initiatives - focuses on efforts to shorten the systems development life cycle and provide continuous delivery, including statistical process controls, embedded data quality and governance, platform instrumentation, and enhanced self-service capabilities

Ensures proper implementation, education, and adherence to current guidelines and procedures

Collaborates with Cloud Engineering, Data Engineering, Data Governance Office, DevOps, Information Security, Infrastructure, and Integrations in the creation of policies, procedures, and use cases to provide solution enablement for data services consumers

Leads the installation, administration, and documentation of tools to support highly complex, enterprise-level data systems on various cloud-based and on-premise platforms

Monitors system metrics to ensure optimal performance and utilization of the systems. Provides 24x7 support for critical systems as an escalation contact during assigned on-call rotation

Evaluates the effectiveness of existing internal processes and applications and proposes solutions and opportunities for automation and audit controls

Develops, implements, and documents policies and procedures to ensure availability and business recovery of data systems

Leads team members efforts to identify and implement efficiency improvements on consumption-based platforms to contain costs

Leads complex projects to migrate legacy/on-premise data solutions to the cloud

Participates in onboarding new team members and training team members

Maintains inventory lists of all database and software installations and provides recommendations to manager for license renewals

Partners with vendors on proof of concept used to determine best fit during vendor evaluation process

Qualification

Data Management AdministrationRelational DatabasesAWS Cloud ServicesData MigrationScripting LanguagesCollibraInformaticaPower BISnowflakeData GovernanceData SecurityDocumentationTeam CollaborationAttention to DetailCommunication Skills