Job Summary:
Sammons Financial Group Companies is seeking a Data Engineer who will be responsible for designing and implementing scalable data and integration solutions. The role requires strong technical skills in Snowflake, SQL, and DBT, focusing on enabling high-quality data flow and seamless integration across enterprise systems.
Responsibilities:
• Design, develop, and implement scalable data pipelines and ELT/ETL solutions using Snowflake and modern data engineering frameworks.
• Develop and manage data transformations and orchestration using dbt, Azure Data Factory (ADF), Azure Data Lake (ADL), or comparable tools.
• Integrate Snowflake with enterprise systems and cloud data platforms (e.g., MuleSoft, Kafka, REST APIs).
• Collaborate with product owner, architects, and developers to translate business and technical requirements into scalable data solutions.
• Prepare and interpret business, functional, and non-functional requirements and translate them into effective data models and pipelines.
• Establish and enforce data engineering standards, best practices, and governance controls.
• Implement quality assurance of data processing, transformations, and error resolution.
• Monitor pipeline performance, reliability, and cost efficiency; recommend and implement improvements.
• Research and recommend emerging tools, patterns, and technologies that improve data delivery and integration efficiency.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Strong technical skills in Snowflake, SQL and DBT
• Experience in designing and implementing scalable data and integration solutions
• Ability to enable high-quality data flow and seamless integration across enterprise systems
• Hands-on technologist and strategic thinker
• Experience in developing and managing data transformations and orchestration using dbt, Azure Data Factory (ADF), Azure Data Lake (ADL), or comparable tools
• Experience in integrating Snowflake with enterprise systems and cloud data platforms (e.g., MuleSoft, Kafka, REST APIs)
• Ability to collaborate with product owner, architects, and developers to translate business and technical requirements into scalable data solutions
• Ability to prepare and interpret business, functional, and non-functional requirements and translate them into effective data models and pipelines
• Establish and enforce data engineering standards, best practices, and governance controls
• Implement quality assurance of data processing, transformations, and error resolution
• Monitor pipeline performance, reliability, and cost efficiency; recommend and implement improvements
• Research and recommend emerging tools, patterns, and technologies that improve data delivery and integration efficiency
• Certifications in Snowflake
• Criminal background check required
Preferred:
• College Degree in the field of computer science, information science, management information systems
• Minimum 8 years' IT development experience or equivalent
• Effective verbal and written communications skills and the ability to communicate with business partners and other IT staff
• Problem solving skills sufficient to perform research and recommend a proposed solution to problems
• Able to work on multiple tasks and meet established deadlines
• Able to effectively direct and coordinate the work of other team members on a project without having HR management responsibility for them
• Knowledge of computer programming languages as required for the system
• Experience in the Life Insurance or Financial Services domain
Company:
Sammons® Financial Group Companies (collectively, Sammons Financial Group) provide today’s most sought after life insurance, annuity, and retirement products. Founded in 1938, the company is headquartered in West Des Moines, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.