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Allstate
Senior/Lead Big Data Engineer- Hadoop - Remote Opportunity
The world isn’t standing still, and neither is Allstate. We’re moving quickly, looking across our businesses and brands and taking bold steps to better serve customers’ evolving needs. That’s why now is an exciting time to join our team. You’ll have opportunities to take risks, challenge the status quo and shape the future for the greater good.
You’ll do all this in an environment of excellence and the highest ethical standards – a place where values such as integrity, inclusive diversity and accountability are paramount. We empower every employee to lead, drive change and give back where they work and live. Our people are our greatest strength, and we work as one team in service of our customers and communities.
Everything we do at Allstate is driven by a shared purpose: to protect people from life’s uncertainties so they can realize their hopes and dreams. For more than 89 years we’ve thrived by staying a step ahead of whatever’s coming next – to give customers peace of mind no matter what changes they face. We acted with conviction to advocate for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws. We help give survivors of domestic violence a voice through financial empowerment. We’ve been an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, digital photo claims and, more recently, device and identity protection. We are the Good Hands. We don’t follow the trends. We set them.
Job Summary
Data Science incorporates techniques across many disciplines – including mathematics/statistics, computer programming, data engineering and ETL, software development, and high performance computing – with traditional business expertise with the goal of extracting meaning from data to optimize future business decisions. Individuals in this field should be an expert/fluent in several of these disciplines and sufficiently proficient in others to effectively design, build, and deliver end to end predictive analytics products to optimize future decisions. Individual demonstrates sufficient analytic agility to quickly develop new skills across these disciplines as those disciplines evolve. Data, Discovery & Decision is responsible for aligning with and contributing to corporate objectives by identifying and developing growth and profitability opportunities that will enable Allstate to generate profitable market share growth. The Big Data Engineer job family is accountable for end to end engineering of data solutions which includes designing and building systems for data storage and analytics that enable Allstate analysts to make better decisions to achieve Allstate’s goals.
This role is responsible for the delivery of Big Data solutions to make decisions. This includes the development of new systems for analyzing data; the coding & development of advanced analytics solutions to make/optimize business decisions and processes; integrating new tools to improve descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics; and discovery of new technical challenges that can be solved with existing and emerging Big Data hardware and software solutions. This role will also begin project management of moderately complex projects. This role contributes to the structured and unstructured Big Data / Data Science tools of Allstate from traditional to emerging analytics technologies and methods. The role is responsible for assisting in the selection and development of other team members.
Key Responsibilities
This role can sit remote- but the preference is in the Dallas, TX location
⦁ Executes complex and occasionally highly complex functional work tracks for the team. Drives the execution of operational/technical objectives for data analytic outputs and business solutions.
⦁ Partners with Allstate Technology teams on Big Data efforts.
⦁ Partners closely with peers in the department to ensure holistic Big Data solutions for our data science community and analytic users.
⦁ With coaching, can identify new areas of data, research and big data technology that can solve business problems
⦁ Leverages and uses Big Data best practices / lessons learned to develop technical solutions used for descriptive analytics, ETL, predictive modeling, and prescriptive “real time decisions” analytics
⦁ Influences within the department on the effectiveness of Big Data systems to solve their business problems
⦁ Is recognized as an expert in Big Data and is influential within the department.
⦁ Develops technical solutions using Big Data techniques in data & analytics processes.
⦁ Supports Innovation; regularly provides new ideas to help people, process, and technology that interact with analytic ecosystem.
⦁ With coaching, develops and builds frameworks/prototypes that integrate big data and advanced analytics to make business decisions.
⦁ With coaching, implements new areas of Big Data technologies, (ingestion, processing, distribution) and research delivery methods that can solve business problems.
⦁ Understands the Big Data related problems and requirements to identify the optimal technical approach.
⦁ Works with key team members to ensure efforts within owned tracks of work will meet their needs.
⦁ Drives multiple tracks of moderately complex and occasionally complex work within the research group.
⦁ Identifies and develops Big Data sources & techniques to solve business problems.
⦁ Co-mingles data sources to lead work on data and problems across departments to drive improved business & technical results through designing, building, and partnering to implement models.
⦁ Manages various Big Data analytic tool development projects with midsize teams.
⦁ Executes on Big Data requests to improve the accuracy, quality, completeness, speed of data, and decisions made from Big Data analysis.
⦁ Uses, learns, teaches, and supports a wide variety of Big Data and Data Science tools to achieve results (i.e., R, ETL Tools, Hadoop, and others).
⦁ Uses, learns, teaches, and supports a wide variety of programming languages on Big Data and Data Science work (i.e. Java, C#, Python, and Perl)
⦁ The development and execution of a communication strategy that keeps all relevant stakeholders informed and provides an opportunity to influence the direction of the work
⦁ Trains and develops more junior engineers.
Job Qualifications
This role can sit remote- but the preference is in the Dallas, TX location
⦁ 3 - 4 Years of experience or equivalent skills & ability
⦁ Master’s or PhD preferred in a quantitative or scientific field such as computer science, computer engineering or equivocal experience
⦁ Experience in using software development to drive data science & analytic efforts
⦁ Experience with database & ETL technologies
⦁ Experience with various data types (e.g. Relational, Unstructured, Hierarchical, Linked “Graph” Data)
⦁ Experience in developing, managing, and manipulating large, complex datasets
⦁ Experience in working with statistical software such as SAS, SPSS, MatLab, R, CART, etc.
⦁ Proven ability to code and develop prototypes in languages such as Python, Perl, Java, C, R, SQL, XSLT
⦁ Ability to communicate and present advanced technical topics to general audiences
⦁ Leading project teams of various skills levels
⦁ Understanding of predictive modeling techniques a plus
The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation, which includes a drug screen.
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As a Fortune 100 company and industry leader, we provide a competitive salary – but that’s just the beginning. Our Total Rewards package also offers benefits like tuition assistance, medical and dental insurance, as well as a robust pension and 401(k). Plus, you’ll have access to a wide variety of programs to help you balance your work and personal life -- including a generous paid time off policy.
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