Data Engineer ; Snowflake

Overview

Travellers Data Engineering team constructs pipelines that contextualize and provide easy access to data for the entire enterprise. As a Data Engineer, you will play a key role in growing and transforming our analytics landscape, designing, building, and deploying data solutions that support AI, ML, and business intelligence.

• Build and operationalize complex data solutions, correct problems, apply transformations, and recommend data cleansing and quality solutions.
• Design data solutions and analyze sources to determine value.
• Incorporate data management competencies including governance, security, and quality.
• Collaborate within and across teams to support delivery and educate end users on data products and analytic environment.
• Perform data and system analysis, resolving defects and incidents of moderate complexity.
• Test data movement, transformation code, and data components.
• Database Admin & Governance:
  Snowflake DBA responsibilities—warehouses, RBAC, resource monitors, tuning; design and enforce role‑based access control and least‑privilege security.
• Lead data governance: classification, tagging, lineage tracking.
• Collaborate with security and compliance on platform posture; audit access logs and respond to security requests.
• Platform Support & Administration: LOB admin across Snowflake, Databricks, and AWS services; configuration, environment setup, access management; troubleshoot CI/CD and HSP pipeline failures; monitor and optimize platform performance and cost.
• Development & Engineering: build and maintain dbt models, Python pipelines, and Terraform IaC; write advanced SQL; contribute to reusable frameworks and internal tooling.
• Advisory, mentorship & leadership: onboard new projects, guide teams on best practices, mentor staff and vendor resources, lead work streams and set technical direction.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s Degree in STEM related field or equivalent.
• Six years of related experience and 4–7+ years in data engineering or analytics engineering.
• Proven Snowflake DBA or platform administration background.
• Experience with data governance, security, and access control frameworks.
• Vendor/contract resource collaboration and technical oversight.
• Mentorship or informal technical leadership experience.
• Advanced SQL skills;
  Snowflake DBA‑level (strongly preferred).
• Experience with Data Governance tools (Alation, Data Hub, Unity Catalog, or Snowflake‑native).
• Terraform IaC for cloud resource provisioning.
• CI/CD pipeline knowledge and troubleshooting.
• Active use of AI‑assisted development tools (Git Hub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, etc.).
• Python pipeline scripting, automation, data transformation, and API integrations.
• Databricks workspace and cluster management, notebook‑based development, Delta Lake.
• Experience building and maintaining dbt projects.
• AWS basics: S3, IAM, Lambda, and Terraform; AWS Cloud Practitioner certification or equivalent experience.
• Strong verbal and written communication; ability to interact with team members and business partners.
• Leadership and self‑motivation; ability to identify growth opportunities and mentor teams.
• Problem‑solving skills, debugging, and repetitive problem resolution.
• Steady, predictable pace in delivering work; ability to decompose assignments into small releases.
• Knowledge of immediate systems and domain expertise.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, related STEM field, or equivalent education and/or work experience.
• 2 additional years of software/data engineering experience.

• Health insurance for employees and eligible family members.
• 401(k) matching up to 5% of eligible pay.
• Paid time off: minimum 20 days annually plus nine company holidays.
• Wellness program with mental health resources.
• Volunteer and community engagement opportunities.

Travellers is an equal opportunity employer. We value the unique abilities and talents each individual brings to our organization. Candidates in Colorado are not required to disclose dates of attendance at or graduation from educational institutions.