Data Staff Engineer - Java

Customer data will be the fuel for GEICO’s growth and transformation through the years ahead. Here’s your chance to get involved and help shape one of our company’s most critical initiatives. The Single View of the Customer (SVOC) Team is seeking talented senior to principal-level data engineers to join our team. You will team up with business analysts, product owners, ADLs, and managers to deliver agile projects and design, develop, deploy, and maintain our codebase.

An ideal candidate is intellectually curious, has a solution-oriented mindset, and enjoys learning new tools and techniques. You will have the opportunity to design and execute vital efforts such as re-platforming our data services, delivering real-time streaming capabilities to our business applications, and enhancing GEICO ID - the source of record for customer data across the GEICO journey.

Position Responsibilities
As a Principal Data Engineer, you will:

• Focus on a few key areas and provide leadership to the engineering teams.

• Own complete solution across its entire life cycle.

• Design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines and ETL processes to support data ingestion, transformation, and storage. 

• Ensure data quality and integrity by implementing robust data validation and cleansing processes.

• Identify and evaluate new technologies and tools in the data engineering space to improve efficiency and drive innovation. 

• Stay up to date with industry trends and advancements in data engineering and recommend relevant strategies and technologies for adoption.

• Influence and build vision with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve complex problems for building enterprise-class business applications.

• Lead in design sessions and code reviews to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization.

• Mentor more junior team members professionally to help them realize their full potential.

• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams.

Qualifications

• Experience in data software development, using data technologies such as Relational and NoSQL databases, open data formats, and programming languages such as Java, Python, Scala, and/or other frameworks, building data pipelines (ETL and ELT) with batch or streaming ingestion, loading and transforming data, and developing with big data technologies such as Spark, Hadoop, and MapReduce

• Experience building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems

• Experience with Azure data stack such as ADF, Eventhub, Databricks in an Azure Kubernetes environment (AKS) is a plus

• Experience with NoSQL databases like Cassandra

• Strong background in SQL

• Experience with Graph data is a plus (Neo4j, Datastax, etc)

• Experience working with data warehousing stacks such as Snowflake, Delta Lake, or ADLS

• Experience implementing Customer Data Platform or MDM initiatives

• Demonstrated history of defining standards and best practices as well as mentoring developers

• Ability to work independently as well as function as an integral part of a team, take initiative and contribute in a fast-paced environment

• Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication)

• Able to balance multiple projects concurrently and manage changes in scope along the way

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate with vendors, business users, and executives, and the ability to communicate technical solutions in business terms

• Azure certification, at the associate level (Solutions Architect or Developer), or specialty (Big Data) is a strong advantage

Experience:

• 4+ years of Java experience

• 6+ years of professional software development experience

• 3+ years of experience with architecture and design

• 3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service

• 4+ years of experience in open source frameworks

• 1+ years of people management experience

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

 

Annual Salary

$82,000.00 - $261,500.00

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered t