Lead Data Integration Engineer

As a lead Engineer on Data Strategy you will be involved in designing system solutions, implementing new features, resolving complex incidents and problems, responding to infrastructure monitoring and alerts, and consultation with application support and development staff. You will also have the opportunity to learn and work with application technologies as architectural and engineering design needs arise. Applying established best practices, you will take charge of build decisions, infrastructure design for larger, more complex systems to achieve strategic objectives in the areas of service management, risk management and project delivery. As a strategic thinker, you will move between diverse tasks with cooperation and persistence, helping to bring out the best in those around you.

Bring Your Best! What this role needs: 

•  Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems or related field, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.

• AWS or Docker or Kubernetes Certification Preferred
•  6+ years experience in Data Movement technologies like Informatica, Qlik ,AWS DMS,GLUE systems Administration or Application Engineering.
• 3+  years of experience leading complex solutions and teams
• 6+ years experience with networking and Linux based platforms
• 6+ years experience with modern programming and scripting languages (Python, Go, JavaScript)
• 6+ years experience performance tuning and operations of application stacks, OSs, DBs, etc
• 3+ years experience with AWS Cloud Services (AWS Certified Preferred) and containerized applications

Technical Skills:

• Develop data ingestion pipelines to efficiently load data from various sources into the data lake.
• Establish data quality checks, validations, and monitoring processes to ensure data accuracy and consistency.
• Implement and maintain data lineage, auditing, and reporting mechanisms.
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, particularly in services related to data lakes (e.g., AWS S3, Azure Data Lake, Google Cloud Storage).
• Experience with data integration, data transformation, and data pipeline orchestration.
• Experience resolving complex problems logically and methodically, and good judgment to involve and communicate with vendors, internal teams and management.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Experience working with DevOps, CICD, GitOps, Agile methodologies.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation and how to apply it with services such as Gitlab CI, Jenkins, CodePipeline, or Circle CI
• Experience with Unit Testing
• Experience with Linux and Windows. Understanding how to install, configure and manage. Very comfortable with CLI.
• Ability to write complex python scripts for maintenance automation and testing.
• Ability to design, implement and maintain Business Continuity Plan (BCP) and provide support for BCP exercises and actual disaster recovery.

Professional Skills:

• Ability to drive innovation for system improvements, determine architectural and design best practices, find automation opportunities and guide proper use of new features
• Competency in ITIL processes: Incident, Problem, Knowledge and Change Management
• Awareness of Service Management target metrics
• Ability to work in agile teams by defining and planning work on a team backlog, and determining ways for the team to be successful in meeting its outcomes
• Experience working in an Agile environment preferred (i.e. SAFe, SCRUM, XP, Kanban, SCRUMban)
• Strong focus on teamwork and collaboration skills
• Ability and willingness to learn and develop new mindsets and skills
• Ability to be self-directed and collaborative in ambiguous situations

Responsibilities

• Monitors and refines processes, procedures, and systems to optimize effectiveness and/or integrity and recommends and/or implements improvements.
• Participate in security audits by assisting investigations, evaluating evidence, developing responses and action plans, and making appropriate modifications to technology, processes, and documentation.
• Participate in defining architectural roadmaps for technology based on business needs and industry trends
• Mentoring and training of other administrators, managing task assignments, review workload and providing input to the management team.

Northwestern Mutual pays on a geographic-specific salary structure and placement in the salary range for this position will be determined by a number of factors including the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; the scope, complexity as well as the cost of labor in the market; and other conditions of employment. At Northwestern Mutual, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. Please note that the salary range listed in the posting is the standard pay structure. Positions in certain locations (such as California) may provide an increase on the standard pay structure based on the location. Please click here for additiona l information relating to location-based pay structures.

We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age or status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.

If you work or would be working in California, Colorado, New York City, Washington or outside of a Corporate location, please click here for information pertaining to compensation and benefits.