AVP, Data Engineering - HIRING ASAP

$30,000 - $205,000/Yr

TEKsystems - Warren, NJ

Full-time - Senior

Warren, NJ

10,001+ employees

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The AVP, Data Engineering role at TEKsystems is a leadership position focused on overseeing the development and execution of data engineering strategies, particularly in the context of a recent migration to Azure. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in data engineering and leadership, with a strong technical background to guide teams in building data lakes and refactoring data systems. This position requires collaboration with various stakeholders to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards and to drive technology modernization initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Translate business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint and design specifications adhering to enterprise architecture standards.
• Collaborate with other solution architects and enterprise/domain architects to ensure solutions are optimized and aligned with the organization's strategic direction.
• Continuously review/monitor project implementations and coding patterns to ensure alignment with the approved solution architecture.
• Work closely with project management and delivery teams to review and mitigate any architecture-related issues and risks during project execution and lifecycle.
• Create/maintain architecture artifacts and documentation, updating when necessary and communicating changes clearly and professionally.
• Maintain software and technology currency by documenting appropriately and ensuring artifacts are easily accessible by others within the organization.
• Provide expert knowledge of technical and application architecture to various development teams.
• Manage individual workload and deliver on agreed-upon milestones and date commitments.
• Communicate effectively, professionally, and routinely to senior managers and the solution architecture team on project progress/status and any major design changes/challenges.
• Use active listening to define architecture and technical needs, recommending appropriate solutions based on a strong understanding of technology and business needs.
• Proactively identify and capitalize upon opportunities to share/re-use existing components where possible.
• Identify and communicate business, application, and technical risks associated with application implementation.
• Provide technical guidance to the Development Teams during the analysis, development, and testing processes.
• Guide the selection of the hardware and software components the applications will use for implementation and provide instruction on how to appropriately implement the application components using the respective hardware and software.
• Collaborate with PMO, BSA, and Delivery Lead to develop Cost Basis Analysis.
• Participate in Product/Vendor evaluation and selection process.
• Define, design, and initiate proof of concept/technology when appropriate.
• Create and socialize corporate architecture standards and best practices.
• Create and present solutions to the Architecture board using pre-defined templates.

Requirements

• 8+ years' experience with data engineering
• 5+ years in a leadership role
• Expert with Azure (ADF & data bricks)
• Proficient with CI/CD, Spark, SQL, Power BI
• Property and casualty insurance experience

Nice-to-haves

• Domain knowledge of the Insurance Industry (preferably P&C) and value chain as well as the technologies and solutions relevant to this industry is desired.
• Ability and interest in mentoring technical staff and raising collective technical competencies.
• Experience executing technology modernization initiatives including migration to cloud native and API Strategies.
• Recent experience working in a Scaled Agile environment with Agile tools, e.g. Jira, Confluence.

Benefits

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)