Data Engineer

Location Designation: Hybrid - 1 day per quarter

When you join New York Life, you're joining a company that values career development, collaboration, innovation, and inclusiveness. We want employees to feel proud about being part of a company that is committed to doing the right thing. You'll have the opportunity to grow your career while developing personally and professionally through various resources and programs. New York Life is a relationship-based company and appreciates how both virtual and in-person interactions support our culture.

The Senior Insights Analyst must be passionate about digging into data and understanding the stories the data are telling. You will be equally passionate about helping others solve problems, gain insights, and make decisions using data. You will work to solidify, enhance and support our data quality, analytics and dashboards/reports.

Position Description:

Actively partner with Corporate Data Strategy and Governance and other Corporate Technology divisions to design and implement solutions for extraction and integration of data to and from data warehouses, data marts and data lakes for the purposes of reporting, decision support and driving insights.

Identify, investigate, and resolve data discrepancies by finding the root cause of issues; work with partners across various cross-functional teams to prevent future occurrences.

Proactively look for opportunities to optimize the data loading structure and develop new approaches to improve the onboarding and integrity of the data.

Provide basic reporting and respond to inquiries asking for insights about the data sets from stakeholders, in a timely fashion thru data.

Ensure that data is clean, consistent and synchronized across platforms as you oversee the design and implantation of data cleansing procedures.

Represent area on projects, be a key player in meetings with all levels of management.

Act as a mentor to team members and the Foundational Business on all technical issues.

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree - Information Science, Computer Systems Analysis or Computer Science, preferred.

Proficient knowledge of SQL

Experience working with Redshift and Hadoop.

Ability to interpret data to help in strategic decision making.

Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking skills required

Ability to clearly articulate and present ideas both in writing and verbally to all levels within NYLife

Experience manipulating large data sets leveraging tools such as Python & R

Knowledge of the ETL process

Solid proficiency in all Microsoft Office applications; expert Excel skills

Expertise in doing Root Cause Analysis and resolving performance bottlenecks

Professional, positive demeanor

Be able to pull data from multiple platforms and organize the data for reporting and insights.

Good understanding of how to leverage data to drive insights.

Innovative thinker who is self-motivated to complete projects and tasks on time with minimum supervision.

Represent team on projects and be a key player in meetings.

Act as a mentor to team members and the Foundational Business on how to use data effectivity.

Have a professional, positive demeanor.

Collaborative, team-oriented can work independently or part of team with sense of urgency.

Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking skills required.

Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills.

Resolve report performance issues as it relates to data.

Have input in the decision-making process surrounding all data related issues.

Empowered to make all routine decisions concerning his/ her position (i.e., the reporting software tool to use to complete assignment).

Ability to establish priorities, work on multiple assignments and meet deadlines.

Good interpersonal communication and presentation skills

Ability to communicate complex results to less technically sophisticated audiences.

Ability to clearly articulate and present ideas both in writing and verbally to all levels within NYLife.

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Salary range: $75,000-$115,000

Overtime eligible: Exempt

Discretionary bonus eligible: Yes

Sales bonus eligible: No

Click here to learn more about our benefits. Starting salary is dependent upon several factors including previous work experience, specific industry experience, and/or skills required.

Recognized as one of Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies, New York Life is committed to improving local communities through a culture of employee giving and volunteerism, supported by the Foundation. We're proud that due to our mutuality, we operate in the best interests of our policy owners. We invite you to bring your talents to New York Life, so we can continue to help families and businesses "Be Good At Life." To learn more, please visit LinkedIn, our Newsroom and the Careers page of www.NewYorkLife.com.

Job Requisition ID: 90089