Director, Data Engineering

Title: Director, Data Engineering Company: Everest Global Services, Inc. Job Category: Technology Job Description: About Everest: Everest is a leading global reinsurance and insurance provider, operating for nearly 50 years through subsidiaries in the Europe, Bermuda, Canada, Singapore, US, and other territories. Our strengths include extensive product and distribution capabilities, a strong balance sheet, and an innovative culture. Throughout our history, Everest has maintained its discipline and focuses on creating long-term value through underwriting excellence and strong risk and capital management. But the most critical asset in this organization is our people. Everest is a growth company with $14 Billion of Gross Written Premium offering Property, Casualty and specialty products among others, through its various operating subsidiaries located in key markets around the world. Everest has been a global leader in reinsurance with a broad footprint, deep client relationships, underwriting excellence, responsive service and customized solutions. Our insurance arm draws upon impressive global resources and financial strength to tailor each policy to meet the individual needs of our customers. About the Role: Everest Re Group, Ltd. (“Everest”) is seeking a Sr. Data Engineer to drive the execution of our Global Data Strategy. In this highly visible position, you will apply strong technical acumen and leadership in partnership with business counterparts to effectively define, plan and deliver technical solutions that support business outcomes in service to Everest's strategy. This is a role that enable you to become a strong engineering leader across the organization. Responsibilities: Partner and work collaboratively with internal customers to understand strategic analytics and business intelligence needs and the associated enabling technology requirements. Lead the technology activities to enable the delivery of meaningful, actionable, data-driven capability in alignment with business strategies Develop and lead the execution of the data and analytics technology strategies and roadmaps to optimize rapid delivery of information management capabilities, while aligning to established technology and architecture standards Define and deliver the data & analytics architecture, tooling and capabilities needed to enable a modern cloud-based data environment and the best practices, governance, and controls to support the broad adoption and use across the enterprise Drive the delivery of an exceptional customer/partner experience through ready access to data and intuitive self-service capabilities that ensures the security, integrity and quality of data while enabling the agility and performance of a scaled ecosystem. Deliver enabling capability to support the rapid ingestion of new data and the timely deployment of advanced analytic models into production Support the development of engineering capabilities that promotes sharing, inner sourcing and reuse of code, capabilities and methods in a cloud-first environment that leverages highly automated DevOps tools and capabilities Drive and accelerate data and analytics transformation and cloud adoption while being a champion of security, standards, governance, and best practices with a focus on data quality and integrity Manage the engagement / coordination across assigned delivery teams to ensure high quality project delivery within scope, timeframe, and budgets Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering 5 years in the data engineering space with deep experience delivering enhanced analytic and data access capabilities 5 years of experience in Big Data Technologies Experience with Cloud-based technologies (Spark, Kafka, Databricks) Experience with advanced functional programming (Scala, Python) Direct experience with Machine Learning techniques (Deep Learning, Sentiment Analysis, Random Forest/Decision Tree modelling) Preferred Skills: Team lead or direct management experience Knowledge or experience within the Insurance or Financial Services Industry #LI-HYBRID #LI-AS1 Type: Regular Time Type: Full time Primary Location: Warren, NJ Additional Locations: Everest is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or creed, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, genetics, physical or mental disability, age, marital status, civil union status, family or parental status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. As part of this commitment, Everest 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 contact Everest Benefits at everestbenefits@everestre.com. Everest U.S. Privacy Notice | Everest (everestglobal.com) EVEREST is a leading international reinsurance and insurance group with an extensive distribution network that spans five continents. With roots dating back to 1973, Everest has developed a global footprint and deep client relationships that are largely unmatched by its peers. The Company’s principal business strategies seek to leverage its strengths to optimize returns over the underwriting cycle, thereby creating value for its shareholders and business partners.