Geospatial Data Engineer Remote Jobs in Connecticut

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As an AVP of AI Data Engineering for Customer Data Ecosystem (CDE), you will be responsible for defining and advancing the consumer AI-ready data architecture that enables agentic analytics, GenAI applications, and differentiated customer and operational experiences. This role ensures data foundations, context, and engineering patterns are scalable, secure, reusable, and aligned across CDE, applied AI, and enterprise architecture partners. This role will lead a small, high-leverage team of architects, semantic engineers, and innovation team, and serves as the senior technical authority for AI-ready data design within CDE.

This role can have a Hybrid or Remote work schedule. Candidates who live near one of our office locations will have the expectation of working in an office 3 days a week (Tuesday through Thursday) Candidates who do not live near an office will have a remote work arrangement, with the expectation of coming into an office as business needs arise. Must be eligible to work in the US without company sponsorship.

Primary Job Responsibilities

• Strategy and Execution: Lead the strategy and execution of complex and large Data and Analytics portfolio.

• Architecture and Solution: Ensure data architecture and solutions align with enterprise-wide standards for Data, AI and Analytics.

• Effectively communicate strategy, execution progress, and outcomes to diverse stakeholders and promote data capabilities through thought leadership and presentations.

• AI Data Engineering leader responsible for Implementing AI data pipelines that integrate structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data to support AI and Agentic solutions.

• Real-Time Data Streaming: Design, build and maintain scalable real-time data pipelines for efficient ingestion, processing, and delivery.

• Define and operationalize ontologies, context graphs, and knowledge graphs across domains to power reasoning, explainability, and decision intelligence.

• Lead the design and execution of enterprise-scale semantic layers to standardize business meaning and enable trusted analytics, AI, and Agentic use cases.

• Enable semantic-first AI and Agentic analytics, ensuring LLMs and agents can consume governed business context, metrics, and rules.

• Drive production-scale execution of semantic and knowledge platforms with strong standards for performance, governance, security, and lifecycle management.

• Drive best practices in AI data engineering by establishing standardized processes, promoting cutting-edge technologies, and ensuring data quality and compliance across the enterprise.

• Leadership: Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing team including Directors, Business data analysts, Data engineers and Release train engineers.

• Drive efficiency and Productivity: Identify and champion AI augmented productivity improvements across the end-to-end data management lifecycle. This includes researching and implementing innovative solutions such as AI-driven auto-generation of data pipelines, advanced DevOps practices for data and automated data quality frameworks.

• Technology Evaluation & Adoption: Stay current with emerging trends in Agentic AI and data engineering and lead proof-of-concepts and early pilots for emerging data and AI augmented technologies to accelerate speed to market.

• Data Governance, Stewardship and Quality: Define and implement robust data management frameworks to ensure successful adoption of Enterprise Data Governance and Data Quality practices.

• Budget Management: Effectively manage the budget and financials for the portfolio.

• Develop deep partnerships and alignment with the portfolio and agile value stream frameworks. Experience with Agile at Scale and iterative development through cross-functional teams.

• Partners with Technology, Data, AI COE, Applied AI and Architecture teams to influence technology, data, platform and tooling strategy.

• Evangelize Agentic Data Engineering, driving adoption through patterns, playbooks, and real-world deployments across the enterprise.

• Mastery level data engineering and architecture skills, including deep expertise in data architecture patterns, lakehouses, data integration, data domains, data products, conversational business intelligence, and cloud technology capabilities.

• Mastery in implementing scalable AI driven data systems supporting agentic solutions (AWS Lambda, S3, EC2, Langchain, Langgraph, MCP, A2A).

• Technical expertise in LLMs, AI platforms, prompt engineering, LLM optimization, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures and vector database technologies (Vertex AI, Postgres, OpenSearch, Pinecone etc.).

• Experience in multi cloud environment.

• Experience in Lang chain, AI agents, Vertex AI and Google Agent ecosystem.

• Strong experience with the design and development of complex data ecosystems leveraging next-generation cloud technology stack across AWS or GCP Cloud and Snowflake.

• Exceptional presentation and verbal/written communication skills; must be able to communicate effectively at all levels across the organization.

• Ability to lead successfully in a lean, agile, and fast-paced organization, leveraging Scaled Agile principles and ways of working.

• Excellent negotiation, influencing, and conflict resolution skills; adept at building strong cross-functional relationships.

• Preferred experience in the Property & Casualty insurance industry.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science or a related field.

• 12+ years in data engineering, data management and building large-scale data ecosystems.

• 7+ years in senior leadership roles managing complex data and AI portfolio with hands-on experience.

• Expertise in real-time data streaming, agentic frameworks, Data APIs, vector stores, and RAG architecture, self-serve analytics and AI.

• Deep expertise in semantic layer architecture, ontology modeling, and knowledge graph design at enterprise scale.

• Experience integrating knowledge graphs with LLMs, RAG pipelines, vector stores, and Agentic frameworks.

• Strong understanding of context-aware data engineering and semantic interoperability.

• Proven ability to move from strategy pilot scaled enterprise capability.

• Strong executive influence and thought leadership in Agentic analytics and AI native data engineering.

Compensation

The listed annualized base pay range is primarily based on analysis of similar positions in the external market. Actual base pay could vary and may be above or below the listed range based on factors including but not limited to performance, proficiency and demonstration of competencies required for the role. The base pay is just one component of The Hartford's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include short-term or annual bonuses, long-term incentives, and on-the-spot recognition. The annualized base pay range for this role is:

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