Senior Lead Analyst - Data Engineering

• Work with business users/tech partners to translate given business problems into solutions to develop ETL processes with defined outcomes.
• Analyze the data in depth using SQLs and other exploratory tools against various platforms such as Azure Synapse Databricks Bigdata Oracle SQL Server and others.
• Convert business requirements to functional requirements with detailed transformation rules for ETL team. This is a very technical hands-on role and is responsible for the functional design of the end-to-end process.
• Work closely with the ETL and data science/reporting teams to review the requirements and data integrations.
• Understand the requirements from Business and Data Science/reporting. Understand the business and business impact on use cases.
• Write validation scripts to validate the data loaded by data engineering team.
• Work with IT business and architects to develop and design requirements to formulate technical design.
• Skills to understand the right functional domain knowledge of the business to be able to gather right requirements for the design.
• Capture meta data data lineage reference data management and data quality rules as part of data governance.
• Overseeing the development of ETL processes in Azure synapse or Databricks and able to modify those ETL pipelines and troubleshoot failures or issues.
• Lead the team including stakeholders spread across the globe in driving the delivery of projects.
• Lead/mentor other analysts within the team and/or organization.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science engineering or related discipline.
• 8+ years of overall experience including 5+ years working in a data management/engineering organization.
• Proficient in Agile development and operations.
• Detail oriented gathering the appropriate level of feature and user story descriptions and benefit hypothesis.
• Extensive experience in data analysis and data modeling (table design).
• Extensive experience writing functional requirements and high-level design documents data-flow diagrams etc.
• Experience in writing validation scripts to validate the data data integrations and ETL transformations.
• Analytical skills to analyze situations and come to optimal and efficient solution based on requirements.
• SQL knowledge and data analysis skills for data anomaly detection and data quality assurance.
• Proficiency in SQLs and data exploration tools. Experience with SQL Spark &/or Scala/Python and performance tuning.
• Experience with scripting primarily on shell/bash/ PowerShell.
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
• Strong leadership and negotiation skills.

• Working closely with product management customers business owners and other stakeholders to create viable and sustainable plans and seeking and incorporating feedback into the solutions and ensuring completeness and timely execution.
• Strong technical experience in Azure synapse Azure Databricks including Spark DeltaLake data stores for analytics consumption.
• Hands-on expertise in Azure SQL Synapse and/or Data Factory experience.
• Help define refine prioritize and accept the work by an Agile team to meet the feature acceptance criteria and maintain a sustainable pace.
• Strong background or working experience in Insurance Industry.
• Ability to interact with senior leadership teams in IT and business.
• Exposure to Gen AI technology and tools.
• DevOps practices: Git Azure Dev Ops CI/CD pipelines.

What We Do

We're honored to be No. 10 on Great Place to Work's World's Best Workplaces and recognized in the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list in 2025. At MetLife we're leading the global transformation of an industry we’ve defined for over 157 years. At MetLife every innovation and line of code is a lifeline for our customers and their families—from victims of natural disasters to people living with disabilities and beyond. With operations in more than 40 markets and leading positions across the globe MetLife fosters an inclusive culture where our people are energized and inspired to deliver for our customers and communities. Join our remarkable journey—one in which you help write the next century of innovation in financial services—because with MetLife making the world a better place is All Together Possible.

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