Data Engineer

Travelers Data Engineering team constructs pipelines that contextualize and provide easy access to data by the entire enterprise. As a Data Engineer, you will play a key role in growing and transforming our analytics landscape. In addition to your strong analytical mind, you will bring your inquisitive attitude and ability to translate the stories found in data. You will leverage your ability to design, build and deploy data solutions that capture, explore, transform, and utilize data to support Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and business intelligence/insights.

What is the Opportunity?

This role is part of the Travelers Investigative Services (TIS) Data & Analytics Team. Travelers Investigative Services provides industry-first resources designed to detect and deter fraudulent claims. Using some of the most comprehensive technology available, our highly trained and experienced professionals have the abilities and expertise to identify potential risks and combat fraudulent claims practices.

The Data & Analytics Team in TIS is evolving to bring new data, technology, insights, and methodologies into the organization. The industry continues to be challenged with the variety of ways fraudsters can take advantage of insurance companies and their processes, which includes leveraging new technology.

Our vision is to advance our ability to identify fraudulent patterns by leveraging data and technology. As a Data Engineer, you will have the unique opportunity within TIS to combine your data expertise, analytics, and a creative and inquisitive mindset to grow and transform our analytics landscape. This is a challenging and exciting opportunity to partner with our Investigators and Analysts to build solutions that will provide insights that lead to investigations.

Within TIS, this position will be responsible for designing and developing products to advance our commitment to identifying fraud and progressing our analytics capabilities. The position will grow and establish optimal and effective techniques within the TIS Data & Analytics Team. This will include building and deploying data solutions which includes quantifying our fraud exposure and the impact to our loss payouts, developing statistical approaches to support our workflows as well as leveraging industry and other 3rd party data to help with staffing analysis and to develop other operational metrics and benchmarks.

Travelers offers a hybrid work location model that is designed to support flexibility.

What Will You Do?

• Build and operationalize complex data solutions, correct problems, apply transformations, and recommend data cleansing/quality solutions.
• Design data solutions.
• Analyze sources to determine value and recommend data to include in analytical processes.
• Incorporate core data management competencies including data governance, data security and data quality.
• Collaborate within and across teams to support delivery and educate end users on data products/analytic environment.
• Perform data and system analysis, assessment and resolution for defects and incidents of moderate complexity and correct as appropriate.
• Test data movement, transformation code, and data components.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Bachelor’s Degree in STEM related field or equivalent
• Six years of related experience
• Proficient use of tools, techniques, and manipulation including Cloud platforms, programming languages, and an understanding of software engineering practices.
• The ability to deliver work at a steady, predictable pace to achieve commitments, decompose work assignments into small batch releases, and contribute to tradeoff and negotiation discussions.
• Demonstrated track record of domain expertise including the ability to understand technical concepts and possess in-depth knowledge of immediate systems worked on.
• Proven problem solving skills including debugging skills, allowing you to determine source of issues in unfamiliar code or systems and the ability to recognize and solve repetitive problems.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to interact with team members and business partners.
• Leadership –…