Senior Data Engineer
New York, NY

Job Description

At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.

What's the role?

* Responsible for working closely with business and technology partners and industry experts to continuously evaluate, evolve, and drive the investment in the overall strategic capabilities, architecture, infrastructure, and roadmap for enabling and supporting end-to-end data & analytics capabilities as a strategic driver for the company.
* Collaborate with technology and leadership teams to understand structural requirements and define standards for how data will be stored, consumed, integrated, and managed across the organization. Recommend appropriate data/analytics tools and technology strategy and support.
* Advise on architecture options, risks, costs versus benefits, system impacts, and technology priorities
* Build an inventory of data needed to implement architecture and create a vision for how data will flow through the organization.
* Leads and drives implementation of measures to ensure data accuracy and accessibility, constantly monitoring and refining the performance of data management systems. Produce and enforce database development standards.
* Accountable for documentation, reporting, risk identification, and management communication on projects.
* Leads and drives data architecture engagements in alignment with general architecture strategy and standards. Provides deep data design expertise across structured and semi-structured approaches and varying techniques or methodologies.
* Provides day-to-day leadership and coaching to less experienced professionals
* Exhibits the following competencies; accountable for high quality, value driven work that drives business outcomes; places the user in the center of decision making, partners and collaborates for speed, agility, and innovation; embraces continuous learning and improvement, is curious, embraces ambiguity, voices opinions; and takes personal accountability

Bring Your Best! What this role needs:

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, System Analysis or equivalent work experience.


* 10+ years of IT and business/industry experience including data modeling, architecture design and deployment, systems lifecycle management and infrastructure planning and operations.


* Demonstrated experience partnering with senior level management and key stakeholders


* Expert level knowledge and understanding of data modeling, data architecture, application design, system engineering, integration and deployment.


* Proven ability to analyze, design, and develop data architecture roadmaps and implementation plans.


* Deep understanding of data lifecycle with a strong focus on data security.


* Practical hands on experience with multiple data storage methods and platforms; including RDMS, NoSQL and AWS.


* Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments.


* Development of data policies, standards, guidelines and procedures.


* Ability to work effectively with minimal guidance.


* Demonstrated creative and innovative approach to problem solving and solution formulation.


* Strong customer / client orientation.


* Excellent communication skills.


* Knowledge of all components of holistic enterprise data architecture, business re-engineering principles


* Previous experience in real-time event driven designs with a focus on Kafka and Apache NiFi



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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.

Req ID: 25433

Position Type: Regular Full Time

Education Experience: Bachelor's Required

Employment Experience: 6-8 years

Licenses/Certifications:

FLSA Status: Exempt

Posting Date: 06/04/2019