Lead Data Engineer

Being good neighbors - helping people, investing in our communities, and making the world a better place - is who we are at State Farm. It is at the core of how we operate and the reason for our success. Come join a #1 team and do some good! Khakis optional. . .

At State Farm, we offer more than just a paycheck. Check out our suite of benefits designed to give you the flexibility you need to take care of you and your family!

• Get Paid! On top of our competitive pay, you are eligible for an annual raise and bonus.
• Stay Well! Focus on you and your family's health with our robust health and wellbeing programs. State Farm pays most of your healthcare premium, and we offer multiple healthcare plan options, including a high deductible plan. All medical plans provide 100% coverage for in-network preventative care, AND you and your family have access to vision, dental, telemedicine, 24/7 mental health professionals, and much more!
• Develop and Grow! Take advantage of educational benefits like industry leading training programs, top-notch tuition assistance programs, employee resource groups, and mentoring.
• Plan Ahead! Plan for those big moments in life with benefits like fertility/IVF/adoption assistance, college coaching, national discount programs, interactive monthly financial workshops, free financial coaching, and more. You can also start a savings account or consider financing through our State Farm Federal Credit Union!
• Take a Little "You" Time! You will have access to our generous time off policies designed so you can plan around holidays, family events, volunteering, or just to take a relaxing day off. With the opportunity to initially earn up to 20 days annually plus parental leave, paid holidays, celebration day, life leave (40 hours/year), bereavement leave, and community service/education support days, there will be plenty of time for you!
• Give Back! We offer several ways to give back through our Matching Gift Program, Good Neighbor Grant Program, and the Employee Assistance Fund.
• Finish Strong! Plan for retirement using free financial advisors and a 401(k) plan with company contributions of up to 7% of your salary.

Visit our State Farm Careers page for more information on our benefits, locations, and the hiring process of joining the State Farm team!

Locations: Bloomington, IL | Richardson, TX | Tempe, AZ | Dunwoody, GA

Relocation Benefits: Do Not Apply

Work Arrangement: Hybrid - This is a "Hybrid" position, which means selected candidates will be assigned to a facility and will spend some time working both in office and from their home. Selected candidates will be expected to report to the office once a week.

Sponsorship: Applicants are required to be eligible to lawfully work in the U.S. immediately; employer will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work authorization (e.g. H-1B visa) for this opportunity.

The Life/Health Data team is developing innovative data products using emerging AWS technologies and capabilities. Working in the Life/Health business department on the data team, you'll play an integral role working directly with business and technical partners to make decisions and drive pace. Your work is essential for transitioning data to Cloud-based technology, investigating new and innovative services, and building creative data solutions.

As a member of the Life/Health Data Engineering team you will be challenged and empowered to grow professionally. We are dedicated to helping each of our associates develop to their full potential as we are considering various levels of work experience. We appreciate your interest in this role.

As a Data Engineer you will:

• Work closely with the predictive modeling team, life actuaries and business experts to develop data products to support business line stakeholders.
• Develop, test, implement, execute, validate, and monitor logic to build and maintain data products.
• Prepares and manipulates data for use in development of data analytics solutions.
• Provides data pipeline solutions for the development, implementation, containerization, execution, validation, monitoring, and improvement of data analytics solutions.
• Demonstrate advanced understanding in data engineering practices, including ETL (Extract, Transform, Load), data integration, reusable data pipelines, data management, data analytics, data visualization, and data science.
• Conformance with State Farm data management and governance policies.
• Establish business domain knowledge for State Farm data sources.
• Identify critical and emerging technologies, techniques, tools, data sources, and platforms in the data engineering field, including cloud-based solutions, that support and extend data solutions.

We are looking for Candidates who have:

Required Skills:

• Experience with developing solutions on AWS Cloud technologies and concepts (Glue, Lambda, Redshift, Postgres, Athena, S3, EC2, Pyspark)
• Design, deploy and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform
• Experience with version control (e.g., GitHub, GitLab)
• Hands on GitOps experience
• Experience in programming languages such as Python and SAS
• Experience with any opensource database such as PostgreSql, MySQL. Etc.
• Experience with gathering and creating analytic business requirements, researching potential data sources (both internal and external sources), designing, developing, and maintaining data assets
• Ability to learn and adopt new technologies and languages
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field

Preferred Skills:

• Experience working with Life/Health Insurance data
• Experience with the Model Building Lifecycle
• Experience using deployment automation technologies, preferably Terraform

****Applicants are required to be eligible to lawfully work in the U.S. immediately; employer will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work authorization (e.g. H-1B visa) for this opportunity*****

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