Senior Azure Data Engineer - Boston, United States - Global Atlantic Financial Group Opportunities

    Global Atlantic Financial Group Opportunities
    Global Atlantic Financial Group Opportunities Boston, United States

    2 weeks ago

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    POSITION OVERVIEW


    The Actuary Platform Developer role partners with the Actuary team, IT data team and primary vendor to provide data development, support, and administration for the Actuarial Modeling/Data Management Platform.

    This position will be accountable for managing the data lifecycle and development throughout the Actuarial Modeling process.

    Key responsibilities will include the following:

    New Requests/Builds

    Collaborate with Actuary Model Development to support any data needs for models

    Collaborate with Actuary Valuation to support model analytics and approval workflow

    Define backlog items and requirements for IT Data team and other supporting IT areas

    Participate in testing and verification of technical solutions

    General Support

    Become a subject matter expert in Actuarial Modeling Platform Data Management capabilities

    Is primary administrator of Actuarial Modeling Platform and appropriately manages required administrative tasksif needed

    Responsible for the regular maintenance, updates, fixes and upgrades. This could include testing after upgrade or facilitating UAT

    Ensures platform is running at optimal performance and levels

    Maintain application run books to ensure appropriate documentation exists

    Provide training to new and existing users on current and future functionality

    Production Process


    Manage and facilitate all incidents from Priority 1 to Priority 4, which includes, but not limited to, providing support to users of applications, responding to user-based questions, tickets and assists with troubleshooting issues within platform.

    Manage day-to-day operational and tactical aspects of multiple projects or requests

    Provides on-call assistance as requested, for after-hours issues and support needs

    Resolve incidents if able to, otherwise escalate as needed (provide tier-2 incident response)


    EDUCATION
    An undergraduate degree in an IT related field or similar combination or education and experience.


    SKILLS
    General development skills with proven experience across 2+ programming languages

    General understanding of Life and Annuity insurance (Nice to have)

    Able to understand the business requirements in detail and work independently

    Bonus point for working experience with technology vendors & Actuaries

    Demonstrates excellent interpersonal communication skills and documentation skills

    Proven Data management skills with understanding of Data flows across different platforms

    Able to manage work across a development team

    Work cross-functionally within IT, with an emphasis working with a data team

    Self-disciplined, able to work independently, but also able to take direction when necessary

    Self-motivated to identity and resolve issues and in advancing personal knowledge

    Hands on experience with GITLAB


    EXPERIENCE
    8+ years' experience in Data Integration and Data Management

    Experience working in cloud environments (Azure)

    General understanding of SAS programming

    Must have

    Experience in the following technologies –Azure HD, Azure Data Factory andPowerBI

    Experience in Data Integration and Data Management

    Experience understanding business requirements and translate it to technical code

    Able to lead small projects without significant help

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