Senior Associate – Data Engineer
Our client is the largest mutual life insurance company in the United States, headquartered in New York City and maintains offices in all fifty states. They are seeking a Data Engineer in its Center for Data Science and Analytics. The Center for Data Science and Analytics is the innovative corporate Analytics group within the company.
Responsibilities
- Ingests, merges, prepares, tests, documents curated datasets from various novel external and internal datasets for a variety of advanced analytics projects such as Multi-variate model for Risk, Marketing and Compliance
- Utilizes data wrangling/data matching/ETL techniques while to explore a variety of data sources, gain data expertise, perform summary analyses and curate datasets
- Functions as data expert, contributes to analytics/solutions design and productizing decisions
- Can work independently with some supervision and be part of a collaborative team
- Work with Project Managers and Scrum Masters to provide milestones and stories
- Proactively and effectively communicates in various verbal and written formats with senior level member of the team and partners
Required qualifications
- Graduate-level degree in computer science, engineering, or relevant experience in the field of Business Intelligence, Data Mining, Database Engineering, Programming
- 3-5 years of overall experience working in the field of data wrangling and programming with a minimum of 1 year experience with ingesting, cleaning, merging and applying necessary data wrangling logic in Hadoop
- 1+ years in writing complex SQL queries in any of the following and/or similar databases – Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, MySQL
- Proficiency using Python for all data related work such as Numpy, Pandas, PySpark
- Experience working with Linux Operating System
- Experience working with data visualization tools or packages
- Experience building Exploratory Data Analysis reports such as Histograms, Box plots, Pareto, Scatter Plot using R, Python or a Data Visualization tool such as Tableau, Spotfire
