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Sr Data Engineer

Requirements and responsibilities

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Details

  • 17x Google Cloud Partner of the Year awards in the last 8 years
  • 3x AWS AI/ML award wins
  • 3x NVIDIA Partner of the Year titles
  • 2x Snowflake Partner of the Year awards
  • We have also garnered Top analyst recognitions from Gartner, ISG, and Everest Group.
  • We offer first-in-class industry solutions across Healthcare, Financial Services, Consumer Goods, Manufacturing, and more, powered by cutting-edge Generative AI and Agentic AI accelerators.
  • We have been certified as a Great Place to Work for the third year in a row- 2021, 2022, 2023.

Key Responsibilities

  • Define and own the overall data architecture for ingestion, storage, transformation, and analytics on GCP (focused on BigQuery and Cloud Composer).
  • Design data modeling frameworks and best practices for structured and semi-structured insurance data (Policy, Claims, Billing).
  • Collaborate with Business Analysts to translate functional Guidewire requirements into conceptual and logical data models.
  • Work with Data Modelers and Data Engineers to define physical schemas, transformation strategies, and data lineage standards.
  • Design and oversee data ingestion architecture from Guidewire (staging, raw, curated layers) using SQL-based ELT pipelines.
  • Establish data governance, metadata management, and data quality frameworks for transparency and compliance.
  • Review and optimize BigQuery data structures (partitioning, clustering, query tuning, storage tiering).
  • Define naming conventions, security models (IAM/RLS), and access control standards for the data warehouse.
  • Ensure architecture alignment with cloud best practices for scalability, cost optimization, and maintainability.
  • Provide architectural direction and mentorship to the Data Engineering Lead, Data Modeler, and Data Engineers.
  • Partner with enterprise security and infrastructure teams to maintain compliance with data privacy regulations.

Required Skills and Experience

  • 10+ years of experience in data architecture/design with at least 6+ years on GCP.
  • Deep expertise in Google BigQuery data warehouse design and performance tuning.
  • Strong working knowledge of Cloud Composer (Airflow) and orchestration pipelines.
  • Solid understanding of insurance data structures, preferably from Guidewire systems (PolicyCenter, BillingCenter, ClaimsCenter).
  • Experience architecting enterprise-grade ELT frameworks and multi-layered data architectures (staging → raw → curated → analytics).
  • Hands-on proficiency in SQL and schema design for analytical environments (star/snowflake models).
  • Familiarity with data governance, cataloging, and metadata management.
  • Ability to lead technical teams and guide design decisions with both functional and technical stakeholders.

Required Skills and Experience

  • Be part of the fastest-growing AI-first digital transformation and engineering company in the world
  • Be a leader of an energetic team of highly dynamic and talented individuals
  • Exposure to working with fortune 500 companies and innovative market disruptors
  • Exposure to the latest technologies related to artificial intelligence and machine learning, data and cloud
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