Data Engineer

About the role

Sammons Financial Group is seeking a Data Engineer to design, develop, and implement scalable data and integration solutions that power Life analytics and operations.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement scalable data ingestion, integration, and processing pipelines across cloud platforms (Azure, Snowflake/ and similar EDW/Lakehouse platforms , AWS).
• Develop and manage data orchestration workflows using tools such as Azure Data Factory (ADF), Azure Data Lake (ADLS), dbt, and comparable technologies.
• Ingest and process large volumes of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, including compressed formats (e.g., .tar), and automate extraction, transformation, and loading processes.
• Design and implement modern data lakehouse architectures, including Iceberg (or similar table formats), to support scalable and high-performance analytics.
• Develop and maintain data models that accurately represent complex relationships within life insurance and policy administration domains.
• Integrate enterprise data platforms with internal and external systems (e.g., APIs, Kafka, MuleSoft) to enable real-time and batch data exchange.
• Collaborate with product owners, architects, analysts, and developers to translate business, functional, and non-functional requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Establish and enforce data engineering standards, best practices, and governance controls across ingestion, transformation, and storage layers.
• Implement data quality validation, reconciliation processes, and error handling to ensure accuracy, consistency, and reliability of data pipelines.
• Maintain pipeline performance, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency; recommend and implement improvements.
• Research and recommend emerging tools, patterns, and technologies to improve data ingestion, processing, integration, and enablement of AI-driven use cases.
• Build and support backend data systems, APIs, distributed services, and orchestration layers for secure enterprise use.
• Support enterprise data integration capabilities across Azure, Snowflake, and similar platforms to unify, govern, and operationalize data for analytics and AI applications.
• Support code versioning, CI/CD pipelines, and controlled deployment of data engineering assets.
• Troubleshoot pipeline, data, and platform issues across development, testing, and production environments.
• Provide operational support, including on-call or on-demand support for critical data processes.

Requirements

• College Degree in the field of computer science, information science, management information systems
• Minimum 8 years' IT development experience or equivalent
• Experience with Python or Java for data processing and automation
• Familiarity with emerging technologies supporting AI/ML and advanced analytics
• Experience working in Agile delivery models and cross-functional enterprise environments

Qualifications

• Effective verbal and written communications skills and the ability to communicate with business partners and other IT staff
• Problem solving skills sufficient to perform research and recommend a proposed solution to problems
• Able to work on multiple tasks and meet established deadlines
• Able to effectively direct and coordinate the work of other team members on a project without having HR management responsibility for them
• Knowledge of computer programming languages as required for the system

Skills

• Strong technical expertise in Snowflake/ similar EDW/Lakehouse platforms, SQL, Python, and cloud-based data platforms (Azure, AWS)
• Strategic thinker who ensures solutions are performant, secure, and aligned with business objectives
• Focus on enabling high-quality data flow, seamless integration, and modern data architecture

Benefits

Comprehensive health coverage for you and your family, including Medical, Dental, Vision, HSA & FSA options, and term life insurance.

Competitive compensation with a performance-based incentive program tied to clear goals and individual and/or company success.

Invest in your future with our 100% company-funded Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), plus automatic enrollment in our 401(k).

Work–life balance that means something. Friday afternoons off year-round, generous paid time off, and paid holidays.

Commit to your growth with paid development time, tuition reimbursement, and professional development opportunities across industry, individual, and leadership programs.

Make an impact beyond the workplace through volunteer time off, and our company nonprofit matching gift program, supporting the causes that matter most to you.

An ownership culture that inspires; join a connected, values-driven workplace where employees take accountability, support one another, and are empowered to do their best work—together shaping our future shared success.

Work Authorization/Sponsorship At this time, we’re not considering candidates that need any type of immigration sponsorship now or in the future or those needing work authorization for this role (This includes, but is not limited to students on F1-OPT, F1-CPT, J-1, etc.).

E-Verify Sammons Financial Group participates in E-Verify and will provide the Social Security Administration and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security with information from each new employee's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.