*At Securian Financial the internal position title is Data Engineering Consultant*

Position Overview:

We have an amazing opportunity for someone passionate about data and technology that will drive our Win with Purpose strategy! Our team delivers the data platforms, tools, and technical solutions that empower our data and analytics teams (Data Engineering, Data Science, Data Governance, and Analytics teams) to implement data solutions, AI use cases, help the business make data driven decisions and drive adoption of transformational solutions that help people excel in their work. We work closely with these teams to understand their current and future needs and execute projects to research, proof of concept, and implement new solutions. We always stay up to date with the latest trends and technologies to meet the ever-changing requirements of our stakeholders. Join us to make a difference and leverage data as an asset!

Some of the groundbreaking technology and project opportunities include working with:

• Snowflake Data Platform for Datastores, Data Warehouses, Data Lake 

• Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ (IDMC) platform to deliver trusted data for AI and analytics

• Informatica Cloud Data Governance and Catalog (CDGC) product

• Reltio Master Data Management platform

Required Experience:

• 6+ years as a hands-on Solutions Architect, DBA, or Data Engineering experience designing and implementing data solutions

• 2+ years hands on experience designing and building data solutions on the Snowflake Data Platform utilizing cloud technologies and solutions

• Serve in a Product Owner role for our Snowflake data platform, directing and prioritizing the backlog with stakeholders

• Demonstrated expertise in effectively leading and managing a team comprising Senior and Junior Infrastructure Engineers, fostering internal growth through coaching, mentoring, and performance management

• Ability to multitask, prioritize, and work across multiple projects at once

• Proven track record of collaborating with stakeholders, technology partners and delivery team members across distributed teams, ensuring seamless, successful project delivery outcomes

• Ability to develop end-to-end technical solutions into production — and to help ensure performance, security, scalability, and robust data integration

• SQL and the ability to write, debug, and optimize SQL queries

• Programming expertise in Java, Python and/or Scala

• Written and verbal communication skills and experience

• Detailed solution documentation (e.g. including POCS and roadmaps, sequence diagrams, class hierarchies, logical system views, etc.)

• 4-year Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience

• Ability to work with ambiguity while collaborating with partners to drive requirements definition

Preferred Qualifications:

• Production experience in core data platforms: Snowflake, AWS Redshift, RDS Postgres

• Cloud and Distributed Data Storage: S3, DynamoDB or other NoSQL storage systems

• Data integration technologies: APIs, Spark, Kafka, event/streaming, Streamsets, Fivetran,  AWS Data Migration Services, Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS), or other data integration technologies

• Collaborate with Data Engineering, Data Management, and Data Science teams to identify data tooling gaps and inefficiencies, and partner to implement solutions for their needs

• Research and experiment with data and analytics tools to stay at the forefront of technology trends

• Experience with data management technologies such as Informatica IDMC Platform, Informatica CDGC Data Catalog, & Reltio Master Data Management

• Strong data skills, with experience researching, implementing, and onboarding new technologies

• CI/CD Cloud deployment experience, experience using Git / GitHub

• Complete software development lifecycle experience: including design, documentation, implementation, testing, and deployment

• Automated data transformation and data curation: dbt, Spark, Spark streaming, automated pipelines

• Workflow Management and Orchestration: Airflow, AWS Managed Airflow or similar

• Methodologies: Agile Project Management, Data Modeling (e.g. Data Vault, Kimball), or similar

Securian Financial believes in hybrid work as an integral part of our culture. Associates get the benefit of working both virtually and in our offices. If you’re in a commutable distance (90 minutes) you’ll join us 3 days each week in our offices to collaborate and build relationships. Our policy allows flexibility for the reality of business and personal schedules.

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#LI-hybrid **This position will be in a hybrid working arrangement.**

For more information regarding Securian’s benefits, please review our Benefits page.

This information is not intended to explain all the provisions of coverage available under these plans. In all cases, the plan document dictates coverage and provisions.

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