Principal Data Engineering

Job Family
IT Operations
About Us
At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential of leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.
Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment — one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there.
Who We Are
We believe everyone deserves to live their best life. More than a century ago, we were among the first financial services companies in America to serve everyday people from all walks of life.
Today, we’re part of an international holding company, with millions of customers and thousands of employees worldwide. Our insurance, retirement, and investment solutions help people make the most of what’s important to them.
We’re empowered by a vast agent network covering North America, with diversity to match. Together with our nonprofit research institute and foundation, we tune in, step up, and are a force for good — for our customers and the communities where we live, work, and play. United in our purpose, we help people create the financial freedom to live life on their terms.
What We Do
Transamerica is organized into three distinct businesses. These include 1) World Financial Group, including Transamerica Financial Advisors, 2) Protection Solutions and Savings & Investments, comprised of life insurance, annuities, employee benefits, retirement plans, and Transamerica Investment Solutions, and 3) Financial Assets, which includes legacy blocks of long term care, universal life, and variable and fixed annuities. These are supported by Transamerica Corporate, which includes Finance, People and Places, General Counsel, Risk, Internal Audit, Strategy and Development, and Corporate Affairs, which covers Communications, Brand, and Government and Policy Affairs.
Transamerica employs nearly 7,000 people. It’s part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group serving approximately 23.9 million customers worldwide.* For more information, visit transamerica.com.
Job Description Summary
The Principal, Data Engineer is focused on the design and development of modern architectures to enable data-driven digital business across the enterprise. Designs data strategies, grow capabilities, and develop the enterprise data platform by providing technology leadership, insight on new developments within the data engineering space, and guidance in architectural and design decisions.
Job Description
Responsibilities
Act as subject matter with other engineers, data scientists, analytics teams, and business product owners in an agile environment.
Architect, build and support the operation of Cloud and On-Premises enterprise data infrastructure and tools.
Design robust, reusable, and scalable data driven solutions and data pipeline frameworks to automate the ingestion, process and deliver structured and unstructured batch and real-time streaming data.
Demonstrate technical and procedural leadership in the development of data APIs and data delivery services to support critical operational processes, analytical models and machine learning applications.
Leads the selection and integration of data related tools, frameworks and applications required to expand our platform capabilities.
Implement best practices in management of enterprise data, including master data, reference data, metadata, data quality and lineage.
Assist in strategy, budget, and execution development for all data initiatives.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, math, engineering, or relevant technical field
Seven years of experience in the application of data engineering, data analytics, data warehousing, business intelligence, database administration and data integration concepts and methodologies
Six years of experience architecting, building, and administering big data and real-time streaming analytics architectures in on premises and cloud environments
Four years of experience architecting, building, and administering large-scale distributed applications
Three years of experience with Linux operations and development, including basic commands and shell scripting
Three years of experience executing DevOps methodologies and continuous integration/continuous delivery
Demonstrated skills in detailed-oriented delivery management
Expertise in SQL for data profiling, analysis, and extraction
Familiarity with data science techniques and frameworks
Results oriented and with a strong customer focus
Creative thinker with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Results oriented with a strong customer focus
Ability to work in a team environment
Strong technical communication skills
Ability to prioritize work to meet tight deadlines
Ability to learn and keep pace with the latest technology advances and quickly grasp new technologies to support the environment and contribute to project deliverables
Preferred Qualifications
Master’s degree in a technical field (e.g. computer science, math, engineering)
Understanding of big data and real time streaming analytics processing architecture and ecosystems
Experience with data warehousing architecture and implementation, including hands on experience with source to target mappings and developing ETL code
Experience with advanced analytics and machine learning concepts and technology implementations
Experience with data analysis and using data visualization tools to describe data
Relevant technology or platform certification (AWS, Microsoft, etc.)
Software development experience in relevant programming languages (e.g. Java, Python, Scala, Node.js)
Working Conditions
Office Environment
This job description is not a contract of employment nor for any specific job responsibilities. The Company may change, add to, remove, or revoke the terms of this job description at its discretion. Managers may assign other duties and responsibilities as needed. In the event an employee or applicant requests or requires an accommodation to perform job functions, the applicable HR Business Partner should be contacted to evaluate the accommodation request.
What We Offer
For eligible employees, we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support both the personal and financial well-being of our employees.
Compensation Benefits
Competitive Pay
Bonus for Eligible Employees
Benefits Package
Pension Plan
401k Match
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Tuition Reimbursement
Disability Insurance
Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Employee Discounts
Career Training & Development Opportunities
Health and Work/Life Balance Benefits
Paid Time Off starting at 160 hours annually for employees in their first year of service.
Ten (10) paid holidays per year (typically mirroring the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) holidays).
Be Well Company holistic wellness program, which includes Wellness Coaching and Re