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VP, Data Engineer

With a company culture rooted in collaboration, expertise, and innovation, we aim to promote progress and inspire our clients, employees, investors, and communities to achieve their greatest potential. Our work is the catalyst that helps others achieve their goals. In short, We Enable Possibility?.

Have you ever wondered how insurance companies calculate the price of insurance policies?

The Actuarial Enterprise Data & Solutions Team is a dynamic, growing team at Arch. This team implements innovative insurance pricing models and analytical tools created by the actuarial department to improve profitability and growth across a wide range of Property & Casualty insurance products.

The VP, Data Engineer, will implement complex databases and data pipelines that put analytics at the heart of real-time decision-making. They will collaborate closely with leaders across the company on high-profile analytics projects that drive business strategies. They will provide technical leadership, champion best engineering practices, and optimize resource utilization to deliver scalable, high-quality data solutions. As a key member of the Actuarial Enterprise Data & Solutions implementation engineering team, they will advance our implementation capabilities and help our team deliver solutions faster.

This role is open to a hybrid schedule (2 days in the office), for candidates in New York, NY, Raleigh, NC, Hartford, CT, Chicago, IL, St, Paul, MN, or Jersey City, NJ. This role is also open to remote for those outside of these locations.

Job Responsibilities

• Work with strategic partners to solve business problems by directing the development of best-in-class data solutions
• Lead and mentor mid-level and junior team members to develop best-in-class data solutions that solve complex business challenges in partnership with strategic stakeholders
• Direct operations and resources to deliver data solutions
• Manage data engineering throughout the project lifecycle
• Build strong partnerships with peers across the organization to support data-related goals
• Design intuitive data structures by anticipating analytic needs
• Explore modern technologies and data sources with curiosity and creativity
• Leverage technology to automate data ingestion and link external and internal data
• Provide the appropriate documentation of sources and technical solutions
• Prioritize competing priorities across portfolios and resources
• Contribute to and promote the adoption of evolving best practices
• Continuously advance team capabilities and workflows

Required Skills/Experience

• 10+ years of data engineering experience
• 5+ years managing a team

Desired Skills/Experience

• Demonstrated experience building data structures to support analytics/research/actuarial functions in an insurance company setting
• Experience with cloud technologies like Snowflake and Databricks
• Familiarity with the MLOps framework
• Ability to operate independently managing tasks and engaging people across the team
• Exceptional collaboration and relationship building skills
• Comfortable handling ambiguous concepts and breaking down complex problems into manageable pieces
• Strong data manipulation skills for analytics
• Resilient problem solving and critical thinking skills
• Thorough understanding of data warehousing concepts and design
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to tailor messaging for technical and non-technical audiences, including senior executives
• Flexibility - able to meet changing requirements and priorities

Education

• College degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, Actuarial Science, Data Analytics, or equivalent

For individuals assigned or hired to work in the location(s) indicated below, the base salary range is provided. Range is as of the time of posting. Position is incentive eligible.

For JC/NYC: $174,800 - $236,040/year For Chicago, Hartford, St. Paul: $157,400 - $212,436/year

Total individual compensation (base salary, short & long-term incentives) offered will take into account a number of factors including but not limited to geographic location, scope & responsibilities of the role, qualifications, talent availability & specialization as well as business needs. The above pay range may be modified in the future.

Arch is committed to helping employees succeed through our comprehensive benefits package that includes multiple medical plans plus dental, vision and prescription drug coverage; a competitive 401k with generous matching; PTO beginning at 20 days per year; up to 12 paid company holidays per year plus 2 paid days of Volunteer Time Offer; basic Life and AD&D Insurance as well as Short and Long-Term Disability; Paid Parental Leave of up to 10 weeks; Student Loan Assistance and Tuition Reimbursement, Backup Child and Elder Care; and more.