Sr Staff Data Engineer - Hybrid
The HartfordAbout the role
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Sr Staff AI Data Engineer is responsible for Implementing AI data pipelines that bring together structured, semi-structured and unstructured data to support AI and Agentic solutions. This Includes pre-processing with extraction, chunking, embedding and grounding strategies to get the data ready.
This role will have a Hybrid work schedule, with the expectation of working in an office location (Hartford, CT; Chicago, IL; Columbus, OH; and Charlotte, NC) 3 days a week (Tuesday through Thursday).
Responsibilities:
- AI Data Engineering lead responsible for Implementing AI data pipelines that
- bring together structured, semi-structured and unstructured data to support AI
- and Agentic solutions. This Includes pre-processing with extraction, chunking,
- embedding and grounding strategies to get the data ready.
- Develop AI-driven systems to improve data capabilities, ensuring compliance
- with industry’s best practices.
- Implement efficient Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures and
- integrate with enterprise data infrastructure.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate solutions into operational
- processes and systems supporting various functions.
- Stay up to date with industry advancements in AI and apply modern
- technologies and methodologies to our systems.
- Design, build and maintain scalable and robust real-time data streaming
- pipelines using technologies such as Apache Kafka, AWS Kinesis, Spark
- streaming, or similar.
- Develop data domains and data products for various consumption archetypes
- including Reporting, Data Science, AI/ML, Analytics etc.
- Ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of data pipelines and systems
- through effective monitoring, alerting, and incident management.
- Implement best practices in reliability engineering, including redundancy, fault
- tolerance, and disaster recovery strategies.
- Collaborate closely with DevOps and infrastructure teams to ensure seamless
- deployment, operation, and maintenance of data systems.
- Mentor junior team members and engage in communities of practice to deliver
- high-quality data and AI solutions while promoting best practices, standards,
- and adoption of reusable patterns.
- Develop graph database solutions for complex data relationships supporting AI
- systems.
- Apply AI solutions to insurance-specific data use cases and challenges.
- Partner with architects and stakeholders to influence and implement the vision
- of the AI and data pipelines while safeguarding the integrity and scalability of
- the environment.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field.
- 8+ years of strong hands-on data engineering experience including Data solutions, SQL and NoSQL, Snowflake, ETL/ELT tools, CICD, Bigdata, Cloud Technologies
- (AWS/Google/AZURE), Python/Spark, Datamesh, Datalake or Data Fabric.
- Strong programming skills in Python and familiarity with deep learning
- frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
- Experience in implementing data governance practices, including Data
- Quality, Lineage, Data Catalogue capture, holistically, strategically, and
- dynamically on a large-scale data platform.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization
- technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to explain technical
- concepts to various stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in multi cloud hybrid AI solutions.
- AI Certifications
- Experience in Employee Benefits industry
- Knowledge of natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision
- technologies.
- Contributions to open-source AI projects or research publications in the field of
- Generative AI.
- Experience with building AI pipelines that bring together structured, semistructured and unstructured data. This includes pre-processing with extraction,
- chunking, embedding and grounding strategies, semantic modeling, and getting
- the data ready for Models and Agentic solutions.
- Experience in vector databases, graph databases, NoSQL, Document DBs,
- including design, implementation, a
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