Director, Data Engineering - BI Pricing Model Support

Data Engineering Director

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Job Category: Technology

Compensation Overview: The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.

Salary Range: $139,400.00 - $230,000.00

Target Openings: 1

What Is The Opportunity?

As a Data Engineering Director at Travelers, you'll lead our Business Insurance model implementation initiatives by bridging technical expertise with strategic vision. You'll lead and develop a growing engineering team while maturing our engineering practices to enable our pricing strategies across various insurance product lines (GL, Property, CMP, Specialty). Your leadership will drive innovation in how we capture, process, and deliver data and model assets that empower our actuarial and data science partners. Beyond technical oversight, you'll champion data quality standards, implement MLOps best practices, and cultivate strong cross-functional relationships. The ideal candidate combines technical data engineering expertise with the ability to translate complex business requirements into innovative solutions that demonstrate thought leadership. Your contributions will strengthen our pricing strategies in a dynamic insurance marketplace.

What Will You Do?

• Partner with Data Science and Actuarial Product teams to understand business requirements and translate them into robust data solutions for model development and analytic solutions in support of GL, Property, CMP, and Specialty
• Design and implement datasets that power analytical processes in support of BI's pricing strategies
• Execute data preparation including exploration, cleansing, and transformation to ensure high-quality inputs for pricing use cases with an understanding of enterprise architecture, consumption patterns, platforms and application infrastructure
• Embed data Management practices to maintain data quality and data governance standards
• Adopt MLOps practices throughout the model development lifecycle
• Manage the operationalizing and automating of all capabilities to ensure secure, supported and scalable solutions
• Provide data expertise within the BI analytics community, supporting pricing model delivery and educating users on strategic data sourcing
• Present analysis and recommendations to help influence management decisions
• Guide and coach team members to accelerate career development
• Establish team processes and procedures
• Maintain relationships with partner teams to ensure needs are met and impacted areas plan work accordingly
• Perform other duties as assigned

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

Bachelor's Degree in STEM related field or equivalent

Five or more years of related experience

Two or more years of management experience

Advanced knowledge of data tools, techniques, and manipulation including cloud platforms, programming languages, and technology platforms.

What Is A Must Have?

Bachelor's degree or equivalent training with data tools, techniques, and manipulation.

Five years of data engineering or equivalent experience

What Is In It For You?

Health Insurance: Employees and their eligible family members – including spouses, domestic partners, and children – are eligible for coverage from the first day of employment.

Retirement: Travelers matches your 401(k) contributions dollar-for-dollar up to your first 5% of eligible pay, subject to an annual maximum. If you have student loan debt, you can enroll in the Paying it Forward Savings Program. When you make a payment toward your student loan, Travelers will make an annual contribution into your 401(k) account. You are also eligible for a Pension Plan that is 100% funded by Travelers.

Paid Time Off: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 20 days Paid Time Off annually, plus nine paid company Holidays.

Wellness Program: The Travelers wellness program is comprised of tools, discounts and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals and caregiving needs. In addition, our mental health program provides access to free professional counseling services, health coaching and other resources to support your daily life needs.

Volunteer Encouragement: We have a deep commitment to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards program that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice.

Employment Practices: Travelers is an equal opportunity employer. We value the unique abilities and talents each individual brings to our organization and recognize that we benefit in numerous ways from our differences. In accordance with local law, candidates seeking employment in Colorado are not required to disclose dates of attendance at or graduation from educational institutions. If you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email (4-ESU@travelers.com) so we may assist you. Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting. To learn more about our comprehensive benefit programs please visit http://careers.travelers.com/life-at-travelers/benefits/.