Lead Data Engineer

Job Description:

The Lead Data Engineer at Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin will work on development, automation, TOIL elimination, incident response, root cause analysis, and monitoring improvements. Leverage software engineering skillset to improve reliability of infrastructure. Lead efforts to implement site reliability engineering framework for cloud infrastructure. Design and develop integrated monitoring solutions across multiple technical stacks. Build and maintain data storage solutions to aggregate key metrics in an accessible format to display past and current performance. Establish an advocate for CICD best practices for technical stacks in the core platform area. Utilize CICD tooling to create self-healing mechanisms to address system issues and eliminate manual effort. Respond to critical system outages and resolve issues. Use lessons learned from these issues to drive engineering improvement making our systems more resilient. Create, collect, and store data used for system architecture and data flow analysis. Design, build, and maintain robust data pipelines using AWS Glue for Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) operations and AWS Lake Formation for centralized data governance and access control. Develop quality code that leverages existing Glue Terraform Module to automate provisioning of AWS Glue resources, ensuring reusable, version-controlled, and facilitate consistent infrastructure deployment across environments. Continuously improve data processing workflows by identifying bottlenecks and implementing performance. Provide thoughtful system monitoring and resilient architecture. Oversee a team of Data Engineers. Guide and mentor junior team members and direct reports and establish positive relationships with application development customers. Learn new tools and systems as needed. Telecommuting permitted 2 days per week. Salary $156,374- $212,550 per year.

Minimum Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering or a related field and 5 years of experience as a software engineer or in a related occupation. Experience must include at least 5 years of experience with each of the following: (1) AWS Glue; (2) AWS Cloud; (3) Terraform; (4) Lake Formation; (5) Databricks; (6) Python programming; (7) Informatica PowerCenter and Power Exchange admin and development; (8) Relational Databases (DB2 LUW, Redshift, MySQL) and shell scripting; (9) DevOps, CICD and Git; (10) Open Table Format (Iceberg & Delta); and (11) Power BI. Interested candidates send resume to apply@northwesternmutual.com. Reference code 501 in the subject line. We believe in fairness and transparency. It's why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. If noted, this is standard pay structure for this position. Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now! Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer who welcomes and encourages diversity in the workforce. We are committed to creating and maintaining an environment in which each employee can contribute creative ideas, seek challenges, assume leadership and continue to focus on meeting and exceeding business and personal objectives. If you work or would be working in California, Colorado, New York City, Washington or outside of a Corporate location, please click here for additional information pertaining to compensation and benefits. At Northwestern Mutual, we believe relationships are built on trust. That our lives and our work matter. These beliefs launched our company over 160 years ago. Today, they're just a few of the reasons why people choose to build careers at Northwestern Mutual. What started in Milwaukee, WI has grown into 7,000+ home office professionals split across 3 campuses: New York City, Franklin and downtown Milwaukee (HQ) - each one bringing with it its own unique talent and culture. In a company with such a long and storied history, this may be the most exciting and important time to be a part of Northwestern Mutual as we are growing our digital and tech capabilities and are always on the lookout for bright, tech-savvy candidates. Northwestern Mutual is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We have chosen to build a diverse and inclusive workplace where talented people from all backgrounds want to be, want to stay, and want to build their future. We celebrate and support our differences for the benefit of our employees, our products, and our community. 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.