Data Engineer - Founding Member, US Platform

About the role

Howden is launching its US retail platform and is looking for a Data Engineer to design, build and maintain the data platform from scratch. As a founding member of the Howden US Data team, you will help pioneer the data strategy and build the core systems that will enable the company to lead in data and analytics. The role is full time, classified as exempt under the FLSA, with a base salary range of $160,000 - $190,000.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain a scalable data platform for collecting, storing and processing raw data.
• Build efficient, performant and well-tested data pipelines that turn raw data from disparate sources into trusted data products.
• Collaborate with global data teams and business stakeholders to understand requirements and design solutions following global best practices.
• Implement data validation, quality checks and error handling, and document architecture, pipelines and transformations for data governance.
• Ensure compliance with data governance, security and privacy standards.
• Stay up to date with emerging data engineering technologies and design patterns.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in a technical or quantitative discipline, or equivalent technical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in data engineering or similar data platform roles.
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines and data models.
• Proven experience deploying and maintaining production workloads on Azure and/or Databricks.
• Willingness to wear multiple hats, with enough knowledge of data visualization, business intelligence and project management to fill gaps while the team grows.
• Experience with insurance data is a plus.

Required skills

• SQL and a scripting language such as Python; PySpark preferred.
• Pipelines built in Databricks.
• Dimensional modeling and medallion architecture.
• Azure services and data quality, validation and testing, including CI/CD.
• Practical use of AI coding tools (e.g. Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT, Genie Code) is mentioned as helpful.

What we offer

• Base salary of $160,000 - $190,000, with a discretionary bonus.
• Medical, dental and vision insurance, with healthcare savings and reimbursement accounts.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Flexible paid time off and paid parental leave.
• Life and disability insurance.