VP, Data Engineering & Management

Description

Summary

This job description is unique and tailored specifically for this role. Travelers Business Insurance ($20B+) is seeking an ambitious and proven Vice President to lead our growing Data Engineering and Data Management team.

You will be at the forefront of expanding our data / feature engineering capabilities, modernizing data pipelines, and significantly enhancing data quality and governance.

This role requires strong leadership skills to motivate highly skilled data professionals while delivering significant value to our business partners.

You will bring unparalleled visibility to data flows from source systems to modeling and pricing datasets, ensuring transparency and efficiency.

You’ll bring an eye towards transforming our analytics and AI / ML data stack to reduce friction for our data customers and accelerate our time to value.

We are an ambitious, curious, and humble team. With your expertise, you will influence executive leadership, shaping data strategies that align with our technology, architecture and value stream patterns.

As an inspirational people leader, you will cultivate and mentor high-performing teams, fostering a culture of growth and development.

Travelers is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply and join us in creating innovative solutions that drive our success.

Our values are rooted in integrity, customer focus, and innovation. We offer a supportive environment where continuous learning and professional growth are encouraged If you are a visionary leader with a passion for data engineering and a track record of transformative success, we invite you to lead our Business Insurance division into the future.

Key Responsibilities :

Strategic Leadership : Drive Long-term Strategy : Shape and implement the long-term strategy around analytic data products, data movement, data consumption patterns, and persistence capability to support the Business Insurance line.

Build and Develop Teams : Mentor and guide data engineering group leaders and directors to advance their expertise and develop future leaders to meet Travelers’ business objectives.

Business Impact : Oversee and direct the development of functional business plans and OKRs, with a direct impact on company revenue, expense, and growth.

Collaboration and Influence : Executive Leadership : Present recommendations to executives, influencing leadership decisions through effective communication and storytelling.

Partner with engineering teams to ensure development efforts align with business needs.Act as a "trusted advisor" across the company, recognized as an expert both internally and externally.

Work across the organization to share and develop best practices in people, process, and technology development.Ensure excellent data governance and data quality, metadata, and lineage.

Oversee external data support and provide oversight to ensure the integrity, integration, and quality of external data sources.

Engineering Excellence : Modernize Cloud Data Pipelines : Lead efforts to modernize and create common data pipelines for analytics and AI teams, ensuring they are secure, scalable, and aligned with enterprise architecture and application infrastructure.

Drive MLOps and LLMOps implementations and manage complex data sources.Enhance Data Quality and Consistency : Implement actionable strategies to improve data quality, governance, and consistency, reducing data wrangling needs for actuaries, data scientists and the analytics community.

Additional Duties : Perform other duties as assigned to support the business objectives and strategic goals of Travelers.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Bachelor’s Degree in STEM related field or equivalent
• Fifteen or more years of related work experience
• Eight or more years of leading teams.
• Strategic Vision : Proven ability to align data strategies with business needs, enterprise architecture, and application infrastructure.
• In-depth and applied knowledge of data engineering tools and techniques, including ML Ops, Databricks and / or Snowflake, AWS, DBT, AI / GenAI Data Pipelines, Data Automation, Python, Model Monitoring, and Alerting.
• Proven experience with enterprise scale oversight of Data Quality, Data Governance, and integration of third party data assets.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills (especially in large / complex organizations), with the ability to present recommendations to executive leadership and act as a trusted advisor.
• Knowledge of or experience in P&C insurance.
• Experience with Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) for automating data engineering tasks, improving data quality, and generating synthetic data

What is a Must Have?

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent training with data tools, techniques, and manipulation.
• Nine years of data engineering or equivalent experience
• Three years of previous management 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 believe that we can deliver the very best products and services when our workforce reflects the diverse customers and communities we serve.

We are committed to recruiting, retaining and developing the diverse talent of all of our employees and fostering an inclusive workplace, where we celebrate differences, promote belonging, and work together to deliver extraordinary results.

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 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.

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