Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer

As the Senior Data Engineer , you will help build, maintain, and optimize the data infrastructure that powers our decision-making and product development. You'll work with modern tools like Snowflake, Metabase, Mage, Airbyte, and MySQL to enable data visualization, data mining, and efficient access to high-quality insights across our GradGuard ecosystem. This is a key opportunity for someone with around five years of experience who's passionate about turning data into impact.

This position is based in Phoenix, AZ.

Challenges You'll Focus On :

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and architectures using Mage (or similar orchestrators) and Airbyte for ELT processes.
• Ensure efficient and reliable data ingestion, transformation, and loading into Snowflake.
• Perform data mining and exploratory data analysis to uncover trends, patterns, and business opportunities.
• Ensure the quality, consistency, and reliability of the underlying data.
• Promote best practices and quality standards for the data engineering team.
• Partner with Data Science, Business Intelligence, and Product teams to define data needs and ensure data infrastructure supports strategic initiatives.
• Optimize SQL queries and data models for performance and scalability.
• Contribute to improving data standards, documentation, and governance across all data systems.
• Help ensure compliance with data security, privacy, and regulatory requirements in the insurance domain.

The person we're looking for has a proven, successful background with :

Snowflake (Data Warehousing). Beyond basic SQL, you must understand Snowflake's unique architecture and features which includes : Data Warehouse Design, Performance Optimization, and Data Loading. Knowledge of advance Snowflake feature is nice-to-have.

Beyond a fulfilling and challenging role, you'll get :

Not familiar with GradGuard?

As the leader in college tuition and renters insurance, GradGuard serves more than 1.7 million students across 1,900+ institutions.

Our national technology platform embeds innovative insurance protections into the enrollment processes of over 650 institutional partners, empowering schools to increase college completion rates and reduce the financial impact of preventable losses.

GradGuard supports College Life Protected, a social purpose entity that promotes research, professional development, and best practices that strengthen campus communities, families, society and the economic competitiveness of our nation.

GradGuard was recognized as one of the Top 100 Financial Technology Companies of 2024 by The Financial Technology Report, a RISE Internship Award winner, and a Phoenix Business Journal best Places to Work finalist, GradGuard remains committed to innovation, excellence, and supporting students and families.

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Those that succeed at our company :

The above just so happen to be our core values. These values are at the heart of our mission to educate and protect students from the risks of college life, empowering us to create meaningful experiences and make a positive impact.

GradGuard is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.