[Remote] Principal Data Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Genworth is a company dedicated to empowering families in navigating the aging journey with confidence. They are seeking a Principal Data Engineer to lead and mentor data engineering teams, establish best practices, and ensure the delivery of high-quality data products and analytical solutions.
Responsibilities
- Leading 3–4 build teams, providing technical direction, coaching, mentoring, and technical governance
- May directly lead some data engineers for POCs, building coding frameworks that will be shared across teams, and other re-usable data assets
- May perform hands on designing, building, testing, and supporting analytical pipelines
- Establishing and enforcing design, engineering, and coding standards, including code reviews
- Leading CI/CD and designing reusable data tests for future releases
- Expanding your expertise into AI, ML, Lakebase, and other capabilities available in the DataBricks platform to these features are implemented as needed
- Driving Spark performance optimization and leading platform cost optimization opportunities
- Managing production monitoring, troubleshooting, and defect resolution
Skills
- 3–5 years of hands-on Databricks experience with other complementary technologies including data governance, reporting and dashboard, and source system technologies
- Proven experience in a Tech Lead role, including leading developers and distributing/decomposing work
- Strong communication skills with the ability to mentor, influence, and align cross functional stakeholders
- Ability to engage proactively with business leaders to recommend solutions aligned to strategy and support data self-service capabilities
- Solid grounding in general analytics, data warehousing, and modern data engineering practices
- Experience working in Agile frameworks and writing high-quality user stories
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and provide clarity for your team and partners
- Azure and Fabric cloud experience
- Insurance industry business process and data knowledge
- Medical data experience
- Familiarity with data governance and data quality needs for business consumers and how they integrate with pipeline design
Benefits
- Competitive Compensation & Total Rewards Incentives
- Comprehensive Healthcare Coverage
- Multiple 401(k) Savings Plan Options
- Auto Enrollment in Employer-Directed Retirement Account Feature (100% employer-funded!)
- Generous Paid Time Off – Including 12 Paid Holidays, Volunteer Time Off and Paid Family Leave
- Disability, Life, and Long Term Care Insurance
- Tuition Reimbursement, Student Loan Repayment and Training & Certification Support
- Wellness support including gym membership reimbursement and Employee Assistance Program resources (work/life support, financial & legal management)
- Caregiver and Mental Health Support Services
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