Data Engineer

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Argo Group

Argo Group (NYSE: ARGO), is a Bermuda-based underwriter of specialty insurance products in the property and casualty market.

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Argo Group is a leader in specialty insurance with a vibrant culture built on respect, equality, wellness and opportunity. We’re an innovative organization that’s small enough to be agile and big enough to make a difference in our industry.  

Our hybrid workplace is continuously evolving to ensure all employees feel: 

  • Comfortable bringing their whole selves to work. 
  • Confident that they will be treated respectfully. 
  • Recognized for their performance and provided with equal opportunities to succeed. 

At Argo, skill meets opportunity. If you’re wired to raise your hand and ask, “Where can I help?”, you’ll thrive with us. 

As a Data Engineer, the ideal candidate will have a proven track record in implementing data ingestion and transformation pipelines for large scale organizations. The candidate should have 8+ yrs of experience and love being a problem solver, while translating requirements into data metrics and schemas that are easy to understand. We are seeking someone with deep technical skills in a variety of technologies like Snowflake, Talend, AWS storage integration solutions and DevOps. Candidates should also have strong interpersonal skills, enabling them to guide people through conversations to collect information, as needed.  

 

Who You Are 

You're someone who wants to see the impact of your work making a difference every day by driving outcomes and results for stakeholders and solving client needs. Your friends describe you as thorough, analytical and detail-oriented, and someone who gets things done. You are someone with high standards who leads by example, and who will take pride in Argo like we do. Most of all, you love solving difficult business and technical challenges to make a difference in the lives of other people. 

 

Qualifications: 

  • Core skills include the following:  SQL; ETL; Talend; Snowflake; Scripting; Git; Batch and streaming technologies. 

  • 8+ years’ experience in Data Warehousing and Data Engineering. 

  • 3+ years’ strong experience with Snowflake, Talend, highly desired.

  • Strong SQL and PL/SQL skills and ability to write queries and data extracts. 

  • Experience working with different file formats like Parquet, Avro, JSON, etc. 

  • Good understanding of Snowflake database architecture and ability to design and build optimal data processing pipelines. 

  • Demonstrated skill in designing highly scalable ETL processes with complex data transformations, data formats including data cleansing, data quality assessment, error handling and monitoring. 

  • Expertise in building and managing large volume data processing (both streaming and batch) platform is a must. 

  • Design, develop, manage and monitor complex ETL data pipelines and support them through all environment runways.  

  • Experience with Python/JavaScript or other scripting language is a plus. 

  • Proficient utilizing platforms and technologies which support DevOps and SDLC leveraging CI/CD principles and best practices. 

  • Ability to work with developers to build CI/CD pipelines and Self-service Build tools to automate deployment processes. 

  • Working knowledge and experience of using orchestration frameworks like Airflow, UC4, and AWS Step functions. 

  • Knowledge of Containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) is a plus.  

  • Provide support and troubleshooting for data platforms. Must be flexible in and willing to provide escalated on-call support for complicated and/or critical incidents. 

  • Work well within an Agile Team, or have sound Agile Scrum Team Knowledge. 

  • Manage and prioritize multiple assignments. 

  • Ability to work individually and as part of a team. 

  • Provide technical guidance and mentoring for other team members. 

  • Good communication and cross functional collaboration skills.  

Argo Group International Holdings, Ltd. (NYSE: ARGO) is a global multiline underwriter of specialty insurance and reinsurance products in the property and casualty market. We help power the businesses that drive the world economy, offering a comprehensive line of high-quality products and services designed to meet the unique coverage and claims-handling needs of our clients. We foster an inclusive culture that embraces diversity and design thinking, relies on innovation and agility, promotes collaborative service delivery, offers frequent, integrated communication and values authentic recognition of excellence. View our 2022 Environmental, Social & Governance Report to learn more about Argo.    

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, ancestry, color, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, national origin or citizenship (including language use restrictions), denial of family and medical care leave, disability (mental and physical) , including HIV and AIDS, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), race, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex (including pregnancy, child birth, breastfeeding, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, child birth or breastfeeding), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or other status protected by laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We do not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. 

Our Benefits

Developing our employees professionally and personally strengthens our organization.
Argo Group offers an attractive Total Rewards package that includes:

  • A culture that recognizes performance and empowers employees to excel, offering competitive compensation and merit driven profit sharing.

  • Flexible workplace policies that support employee well-being include compressed hours, flex-time, job-sharing, remote work, sabbatical leave, holiday and summer hours.

  • Comprehensive health, wellness, and financial planning options that employees can tailor to meet their personal and family needs.   In addition to traditional health and wellness plans, benefits include retirement savings, matching 401K (US-based employees), generous paid time off (PTO), paid caregiver and parental leave, employee assistance program (EAP), an employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) offering a 15% discount, and an array of voluntary benefits.  

  • Argo Academy, a digital and instructor-led platform that offers continuous learning and professional development – Training magazine lists Argo among the Training "Top 125" Companies.   Argo encourages career mobility and continuing education to pursue and maintain professional and industry designations, in addition to traditional university and higher education programs.

  • An inclusive culture that develops and sponsors diverse teams, encourages cross-functional engagement and collaboration, builds community through employee resource groups (ERGs), and provides an environment that welcomes ongoing dialogue, creative innovation, professional and personal development.

  • Active community outreach and volunteer programs in addition to matching charitable gifts by 100%.

  • A generous Employee Referral program that has resulted in 25% of all new hires this year.

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Tags: Agile Airflow Avro AWS CI/CD Data pipelines Data Warehousing DevOps Docker Engineering ETL Excel Git JavaScript JSON Kubernetes Parquet Pipelines Python Scrum SDLC Snowflake SQL Streaming Talend

Perks/benefits: 401(k) matching Career development Competitive pay Equity Flex hours Flex vacation Health care Insurance Medical leave Paid sabbatical Parental leave Wellness

Region: Remote/Anywhere
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