Data Engineer

Crum & Forster Company Overview

Crum & Forster (C&F), with a proud history dating to 1822, provides specialty and standard commercial lines insurance products through our admitted and surplus lines insurance companies. C&F enjoys a financial strength rating of "A" (Excellent) by AM Best and is proud of our superior customer service platform. Our claims and risk engineering services are recognized as among the best in the industry.

Our most valuable asset is our people: more than 2500 employees in locations throughout the United States. The company is increasingly winning recognition as a great place to work, earning several workplace and wellness awards for four years running, including the 2025 Great Place to Work Award for our employee-first focus and our steadfast commitment to diversity, equity and Inclusion.

C&F is part of Fairfax Financial Holdings, a global, billion dollar organization. For more information about Crum & Forster, please visit our website:

The Specialty & Surplus Digital Data Services team leverages agile software development principles to achieve success in its support of the business. We are a dynamic organization always on the lookout for intelligent, capable employees who are passionate about their career. We seek a Data Engineer to join our team and help us continue to provide a high level of support to our business partners, while planning for our exciting future in the cloud.

If you are interested in contributing to the transformation of an IT organization utilizing innovative tools then this is the place for you!

What you will do:

This position is to support and develop in house, cloud based, data driven development initiatives, which involves/includes:

• Build and maintain the data pipelines that move and process data from disparate sources into our data lake house platform
• Facilitate data preparation for use cases involving internal reporting, data lake house integrations, and predictive analytics
• Work closely with our analytics and reporting teamto create and maintain curated data marts.
• Leverage agile software development methods to make iterative enhancements to the data lakehouse infrastructure and ETL processes
• Working with databases and data pipelines
• Data ingestion using products like Fivetran, AWS Glue and other cloud-based tools
• Working with the full suite of AWS Services (S3, Lambda, Glue, Athena, SNS, EC2, etc)
• Working with databases such as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Postgre
  
  SQL, Dynamo
  
  DB, etc
• Working with version control software such as Git and Bitbucket
• Working with the various business units to analyze need, recommend solutions, and work with the team to prioritize, plan, and execute on deliverables
• Communicate with other Digital teams and Business Units to clearly define project goals, discuss timelines, and provide input on solutions

Become an agent of change and use your creativity and skills to implement new technology and skills

The Digital Data Services Data Engineer will work with a group of highly motivated and experienced technologists who have spent the past several years working hard to implement innovative tools to the C&F Surplus & Specialty Organization for quick and scalable business solutions.

What you will bring to C&F:

Individuals that would best match our needs should have:

• 4+ years working proficiently with SQL, Python and Data Frames.
• 2+ years of experience with the Snowflake Data Cloud, preferably worked on Data Pipes, Streams, Streamlit and Snowpark.
• Familiarity with the AWS ecosystem, preferably services such as Lambda Functions, Lake Formation, Glue and Athena.
• Good knowledge of semi-structured data, e.g. JSON and the columnar file formats, e.g. Parquet
• Strong in writing complex queries that involve nested joins, derived tables and common table expressions.
• Capable of performing technical root cause analysis and delivering corrective action.
• Experience working with APIs a plus
• Experience with the following SaaS tools a plus:
  Fivetran, dbt Cloud
• Ability to travel quarterly, and as needed for team events and conferences.
• A passion for learning
• Great communication, note taking, and organizational skills
• An ability to leverage web…