Data Engineer I

Unum: Your Future When you join the team at Unum, you become part of an organization committed to helping you thrive. Here, we work to provide employee benefits and service solutions that enable employees at client companies to thrive. And this starts with ensuring that every one of our team members enjoys opportunities to succeed both professionally and personally. We provide: Award‑winning culture Inclusion and diversity as a priority Performance based incentive plans Competitive benefits package that includes health, vision, dental, short‑ and long‑term disability, generous PTO (including paid time to volunteer!), up to 9.5% 401(k) employer contribution, mental health support, career advancement opportunities, student loan repayment options, tuition reimbursement, flexible work environments. All benefits listed above are subject to the terms of their individual plans. General Summary This position is for a Data Engineer who will design, build and maintain data systems and pipelines to allow data to be accessed and utilized optimally for analytics or visualization/insight generation purposes. The role requires technical expertise in computer programming, database management, data architecture, and increasing business knowledge. With some support from manager, this individual will build and execute data engineering approaches to support business priorities. Job Specifications Bachelor’s degree in quantitative field or equivalent experience. 2 years of professional experience or equivalent relevant work experience preferred. Core Data Engineer Capabilities Data Engineering – Experience with at least one relevant ETL toolset (IICS, Python, SnowSQL, etc.). Exposure to DevOps best practice including CI/CD, process automation and optimization. Data Architecture and Infrastructure – Understanding of data architecture principles and related infrastructure requirements, covering on‑prem and cloud platforms. Holistic Data Preparation – Ability to understand and present data, including a basic understanding of how data will build towards a business solution. Data Extraction, Transform & Load – Preferred skills include: experience writing complex SQL queries that join multiple tables/databases; exploring databases/tables or other legacy data content to identify best data sources to solve business problems; troubleshooting complex SQL queries with little guidance; creating logical data models by combining data from multiple sources including internal and external data. Domain Knowledge – Deep understanding of Fineos and experience with Snowflake Cortex AI preferred. Core Business Capabilities – Demonstrated communication skills, experience in financial services, exposure to working with senior management and executive leadership, attention to detail while effectively prioritizing work and managing multiple projects simultaneously. Ability to understand and explain a problem and identify and communicate an appropriate solution. Leadership Capabilities – Developing ability to coach or mentor team members, ability to commit quickly and positively to change, viewed as embracing change and leading proof of concept work and prototyping when necessary. Preferred Characteristics Entrepreneurial self‑starter. A thorough, results‑oriented problem‑solver. A lifelong learner with voracious curiosity. Basic understanding of their organization. Principal Duties and Responsibilities Employ a variety of languages and tools to develop, construct, test and maintain data pipelines, ensuring they support the requirements of the business. Integrate varying sizes of data from different sources (including Snowflake, Fineos, Web API and Teradata). Apply validation, aggregation, and reconciliation techniques to create a rich data framework. Work closely with the data scientists and business partners to understand the business problem they are trying to solve and the analytics solutions they plan to apply. Use this understanding to create appropriate data structures tailored for the specific problem. Create data assets that conform to scalability, extensibility, performance and maintainability requirements for the problem at hand. Promote development of solutions following appropriate engineering process that is fit to purpose for different use scenarios. Understand and contribute to the evolution of the enterprise data architecture including the application of current and emerging data frameworks and tools (eg hosting data in Cloud). Efficiently prepare results for interpretation and/or visualization and communicate findings and potential value to manager. Support integration of solutions within existing business processes using automation techniques. Understand theory and application of current and emerging software engineering practices. Provide support to lower level Data Engineer peers. Perform other related duties as assigned. Company Unum and Colonial Life are part of Unum Group, a Fortune 500 company and leading provider of employee benefits to companies worldwide. Headquartered in Chattanooga, TN, with international offices in Ireland, Poland and the UK, Unum also has significant operations in Portland, ME, and Baton Rouge, LA – plus over 35 US field offices. Colonial Life is headquartered in Columbia, SC, with over 40 field offices nationwide. Unum is an equal opportunity employer, considering all qualified applicants and employees for hiring, placement and advancement, without regard to a person’s race, color, religion, national origin, age, genetic information, military status, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, or protected veteran status. Base salary range: $60,500.00 – $123,400.00. Additionally, Unum offers a portfolio of benefits and rewards that are competitive and comprehensive including healthcare benefits (health, vision, dental), insurance benefits (short & long-term disability), performance-based incentive plans, paid time off, and a 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match up to 5% and an additional 4.5% contribution whether you contribute to the plan or not. All benefits are subject to the terms and conditions of individual plans. #J-18808-Ljbffr