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New York Life Insurance Company · 7 hours ago

Senior Associate: Data Engineer

New York, NY

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

$98K/yr - $140K/yr

3+ years exp

New York Life Insurance Company is a longstanding organization evolving into a technology and data-driven entity. They are seeking a Senior Associate: Data Engineer to build and maintain data pipelines, ensuring data quality and supporting advanced analytics initiatives across the enterprise.

FinanceFinancial ServicesInsurance

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Build and maintain dbt data pipelines to deliver clean, reliable, and well-structured data for data science and analytics use cases

Implement real-time data ingestion and processing using PySpark and AWS Glue

Apply software engineering best practices—including version control, testing, and integration—to all analytics and data development work

Review code changes and approve pull requests (PRs) in Git to ensure quality and consistency

Partner with stakeholders to explore, analyze, and source data from strategic enterprise data assets

Collaborate closely with data scientists on data quality, availability, and business value to support model development and analysis

Translate business and technical requirements into Jira stories, define milestones, and manage progress

Work with data stewards across New York Life to ensure alignment on data governance and standards

Build strong relationships with Technology (IT) teams to support tooling, data strategy, system integrations, and deployment processes

Communicate information and ideas effectively to diverse audiences across the organization

Qualification

Dbt data modelsAWS GlueDatabricksKafkaPySparkData governanceAnalytical thinkingInsurance industry experienceProblem-solvingCollaborationCommunication

Required

3-7+ years of experience with hands-on experience building and maintaining dbt data models and transformation pipelines

Proficiency with AWS Glue, including ETL development, job orchestration, and catalog integration

Strong working knowledge of Databricks, including SQL, notebooks, and distributed data processing

Experience with Kafka and streaming data pipelines for real-time ingestion and processing

Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot complex data issues

Ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams and communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

Preferred

Experience in the insurance industry or other regulated industries

Benefits

Leave programs

Adoption assistance

Student loan repayment programs

Company

New York Life Insurance Company

For over 180 years, we’ve helped turn your biggest dreams into milestones that last a lifetime.

Founded in 1845

New York, New York, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.newyorklife.com/

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