Data Engineer

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection. 

Job Description

This role is responsible for the use and development of data infrastructure projects and proof of concept business solutions for users in analytics and Data Science. This person works directly with data scientists and analytic engineers on needs and tactical solutions. This role will execute new data engineering work tracks for Data Science and analytics from inception and prototyping to fully developed solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Execute rapid development of new data and analytic work tracks with fast iteration over quick sprints
• Provide support on requirement development for analytic data sources, breaking down business problems into solvable components and assist with documenting requirements with minimal supervision.
• Work with Data Scientists and business partners on cross functional teams; developing subject matter expertise in the business as well as advanced analytics.
• Mentor other team members in a business technical environment and promote an environment that supports innovation and process improvement.
• Participate in the development of new concepts, proof of concept designs, and prototypes for business or research data solutions so that business users or predictive modelers may visually understand and explore a new feature or functionality before implementation to expose design assumptions and drive ideation.
• Participate in the development of enterprise data assets, information platforms or data spaces designed for exploring and understanding the data.
• Leverage “agile” data analysis with technology fluency in parallel processing/programming, software/programming languages and technologies (i.e. Oracle, MongoDB, SQL, Python, Spark, Kafka, Scala and Hadoop), paired with a high degree of analytic agility to be able to meet fluid and dynamic business needs in this space.
• Builds test scripts, executes testing, works with data scientists and business to ensure end user acceptance
• Help develop and deliver the data infrastructure required to support needs of predictive modeling and analytics with minimal supervision.

Education

• 4 year Bachelors Degree (Preferred)

Experience

• 2 or more years of experience (Preferred)

Supervisory Responsibilities

• This job does not have supervisory duties.

Education & Experience (in lieu)

• In lieu of the above education requirements, an equivalent combination of education …