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.
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