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Senior Data Engineer

Transamerica
Cedar Rapids, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 13 Jul 2026
💰 $115,000/yr($95,000/yr$115,000/yr)

About the role

Job Family

IT Operations

About Us 

 

At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential of leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.  

 

Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment — one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there. 

     

Who We Are 

 

We believe everyone deserves to live their best life. More than a century ago, we were among the first financial services companies in America to serve everyday people from all walks of life 

Today, we’re part of an international holding company, with millions of customers and thousands of employees worldwide. Our insurance, retirement, and investment solutions help people make the most of what’s important to them. 

We’re empowered by a vast agent network covering North America, with diversity to match. Together with our nonprofit research institute and foundation, we tune in, step up, and are a force for good — for our customers and the communities where we live, work, and play. United in our purpose, we help people create the financial freedom to live life on their terms. 

What We Do 

 

Transamerica is organized into three distinct businesses. These include 1) World Financial Group, including Transamerica Financial Advisors, 2) Protection Solutions and Savings & Investments, comprised of life insurance, annuities, employee benefits, retirement plans, and Transamerica Investment Solutions, and 3) Financial Assets, which includes legacy blocks of long term care, universal life, and variable and fixed annuities. These are supported by Transamerica Corporate, which includes Finance, People and Places, General Counsel, Risk, Internal Audit, Strategy and Development, and Corporate Affairs, which covers Communications, Brand, and Government and Policy Affairs. 

 

Transamerica employs nearly 7,000 people. It’s part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group serving approximately 23.9 million customers worldwide.* For more information, visit transamerica.com.  

Job Description Summary

The Senior Data Engineer will support creation of the Book of Record by building AWS-based data pipelines, enabling a single source of truth. The role requires strong AWS expertise, Snowflake / Power BI integration, data quality focus, and ability to work in an agile, collaborative environment.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Work collaboratively with other engineers, data scientists, analytics teams, and business product owners in an agile environment. 
  • Design robust, reusable, and scalable data-driven solutions and data pipeline frameworks. 
  • Automate ingestion, processing, and delivery of structured/unstructured and batch/real-time data. 
  • Understand and implement best practices in enterprise data management (master data, reference data, metadata, data quality, lineage). 
  • Work with ALM, Hedging, Risk, and other stakeholders. 
  • Navigate competing priorities; adapt to changing requirements.  ​


Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, math, engineering, or related field. 
  • Four years of experience a

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