Senior Data Engineer - Enterprise Data Management
Voya Financial
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Profile Summary:
The Senior Data Engineer, leads the design and implementation of robust data solutions across multiple domains, driving technical excellence and scalability. This role mentor others, shape best practices, and influence data architecture. This role is expected to proactively identify opportunities to improve systems, drive reliability, and collaborate with product and business stakeholder to again data strategy and company goals.
Profile Description:
- Design, build and scale robust, high-performing batch and real-time data pipelines. Drive architectural decisions for transformation logic, storage formats, and schema design. Lead complex data ingestion efforts and mentor peers on performance optimization and scalability.
- Lead the design and optimization of complex data models and storage architecture, balancing performance, scalability, and usability. Partner with stakeholders to translate business requirements into robust data structures.
- Contribute significantly to delivery planning and execution, mentor junior engineers on agile approaches, and ensure timely completion of tasks by managing dependencies and escalating delivery challenges.
- Design and standardize advanced data validation frameworks and testing strategies across platforms. Lead root cause analysis and data quality issues and mentor others on quality best practices. Partner with stakeholders to define SLAs and quality metrics.
- Leads efforts to automate, monitor, and scale deployment of production-grade data pipelines. Design resilient workflows with retry logic, failure handling, and resource optimization. Proactively address performance and reliability issues and contribute to runbooks and on-call documentation.
- Lead the creation and maintenance of detailed technical documentation for complex pipelines, data models, and system integrations. establish and enforce documentation and development standards across projects. Mentor junior engineers on clear, consistent coding and documentation habits.
- Act as a key technical partner to product, analytics and data science teams. Lead design, discussions, communicate complex data trade-offs with clarity, and proactively surface risks and blockers. Support collaborative planning and mentor junior team members in effective communication and partnership.
Knowledge & Experience:
- 5-9 years in data engineering, data modeling, and pipeline development
- Expert in SQL and Python for developing and debugging scalable data pipelines.
- Deep hands-on experience with Azure and Databricks, including Delta Live Tables and Unity Catalog
- Skilled with data integration/orchestration tools (SnapLogic, Azure Data Factory, Jenkins)
- Strong use of infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform to manage deployment pipelines.
- Design and optimize API integration in pipelines.
- Familiar with data quality observability tools such as Soda or similar.
- Proficient in version control and CI/CD workflows using GitHub.
- Advanced understanding of dimensional modeling and data warehousing concepts.
- Comfortable leading efforts in agile environments and strong ownership and collaboration.
Compensation Pay Disclosure:
Voya is committed to pay that’s fair and equitable, which means comparable pay for comparable roles and responsibilities.
The below annual base salary range reflects the expected hiring range(s) for this position in the location(s) listed. In addition to base salary, Voya may offer incentive opportunities (i.e., annual cash incentives, sales incentives, and/or long-term incentives) based on the role to reward the achievement of annual performance objectives. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Voya Financial is willing to pay at the time of this posting.
Actual compensation offered may vary from the posted salary range based upon the candidate’s geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.
$114,450 - $143,060 USDBe Well. Stay Well.
Voya provides the resources that can make a difference in your lives. To us, this means thriving physically, financially, socially and emotionally. Voya benefits are designed to help you do just that. That’s why we offer an array of plans, programs, tools and resources with one goal in mind: To help you and your family be well and stay well.
What We Offer
- Health, dental, vision and life insurance plans
- 401(k) Savings plan – with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%)
- Voya Retirement Plan – employer paid cash balance retirement plan (4%)
- Paid time off – including 20 days paid time off, nine paid company holidays and a flexible Diversity Celebration Day.
- Paid volunteer time — 40 hours per calendar year
Learn more about Voya benefits (download PDF)
Critical Skills
At Voya, we have identified the following critical skills which are key to success in our culture:
- Customer Focused: Passionate drive to delight our customers and offer unique solutions that deliver on their expectations.
- Critical Thinking: Thoughtful process of analyzing data and problem solving data to reach a well-reasoned solution.
- Team Mentality: Partnering effectively to drive our culture and execute on our common goals.
- Business Acumen: Appreciation and understanding of the financial services industry in order to make sound business decisions.
- Learning Agility: Openness to new ways of thinking and acquiring new skills to retain a competitive advantage.
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Equal Employment Opportunity
Voya Financial is an equal-opportunity employer. Voya Financial provides equal opportunity to qualified individuals regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, veteran status, creed, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other status protected by state or local law.
Reasonable Accommodations
Voya is committed to the inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Voya will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please reference resources for applicants with disabilities.