Northwestern Mutual · 4 hours ago
Senior Data Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$119K/yr - $213K/yr
3+ years expNorthwestern Mutual is a leading life insurance company, and they are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, develop, and maintain data products and platform infrastructure. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure efficient operation of data systems and implementing advanced monitoring and performance tuning.
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Responsibilities
Design, develop, and maintain data products and data platform infrastructure
Work with cross-functional teams to ensure efficient and reliable operation of data systems and development of frameworks to support data engineers, scientists, and analysts
Work with site reliability engineers and operational support teams to implement auto-scaling policies and advanced monitoring/alerting systems and tune application performance configurations
Utilize Data Lake platforms, including Databricks, AWS Lake Formation, and Snowflake
Perform tooling to support logging, metrics, and telemetry (including Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, OpenSearch, and Dynatrace)
Lead risk assessment efforts when new technology is introduced and implement process improvement opportunities and automation
Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market for enterprise data platform
Measure and optimize system performance, including automation and self-healing capabilities
Work with modern CI/CD pipeline technologies involving git repositories, static code analysis, and test-driven development
Partner with development teams to improve automated delivery through rigorous testing and release procedures
Maintain and update terraform modules for infrastructure deployment
Build and configure infrastructure resources on AWS cloud platform like Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Public and Private Subnets, Security Groups, Route Tables, Elastic Load Balancer (ELB), EC2, RDS
End-to-end deployment and maintaining all applications, performing testing and security engineering assessments
Interact with application vendors to get updates on product features and issues
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Information Sciences or a related field
3 years of experience as a data engineer or related occupation
3 years of experience with cloud services, architecture of cloud resources, system architecture, and networking components of AWS services
3 years of experience with requirement gathering and analysis
3 years of experience defining and implementing observability frameworks
3 years of experience with Data Lake platforms, including Databricks, AWS Lake Formation, and Snowflake
3 years of experience working in a distributed data system and application
3 years of experience with tooling to support logging, metrics, and telemetry (including Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, OpenSearch, and Dynatrace)
3 years of experience with CI/CD pipeline technologies involving git repositories, static code analysis, and test-driven development
Benefits
Flexible work schedules
Concierge service
Comprehensive benefits
Employee resource groups
Company
Northwestern Mutual
Northwestern Mutual delivers financial security to millions with life, disability income and long-term care insurance, and investments.
5001-10000 employees
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Chairman, President and CEO
Phil Odella
COO/CFO
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