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About Us

At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential of leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.

Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment — one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there.

Who We Are

We believe everyone deserves to live their best life. More than a century ago, we were among the first financial services companies in America to serve everyday people from all walks of life.

Today, we’re part of an international holding company, with millions of customers and thousands of employees worldwide. Our insurance, retirement, and investment solutions help people make the most of what’s important to them.

We’re empowered by a vast agent network covering North America, with diversity to match. Together with our nonprofit research institute and foundation, we tune in, step up, and are a force for good — for our customers and the communities where we live, work, and play. United in our purpose, we help people create the financial freedom to live life on their terms.

What We Do

Transamerica is organized into three distinct businesses. These include 1) World Financial Group, including Transamerica Financial Advisors, 2) Protection Solutions and Savings & Investments, comprised of life insurance, annuities, employee benefits, retirement plans, and Transamerica Investment Solutions, and 3) Financial Assets, which includes legacy blocks of long term care, universal life, and variable and fixed annuities. These are supported by Transamerica Corporate, which includes Finance, People and Places, General Counsel, Risk, Internal Audit, Strategy and Development, and Corporate Affairs, which covers Communications, Brand, and Government and Policy Affairs.

Transamerica employs nearly 7,000 people. It’s part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group serving approximately 23.9 million customers worldwide.* For more information, visit transamerica.com.

Job Description Summary

The Specialist, Data Engineering is focused on the design and development of modern architectures to enable data-driven digital business across the enterprise. Helps define data strategies, grow capabilities, and develop the enterprise data platform by providing technology leadership, insight on new developments within the data engineering space, and guidance in architectural and design decisions.

Job Description

Responsibilities:

Work collaboratively with other engineers, data scientists, analytics teams, scrum masters and business product owners in an agile environment.
Architect, build and support the operation of Cloud and On-Premises enterprise data infrastructure and tools.
Design robust, reusable and scalable data driven solutions and data pipeline frameworks to automate the ingestion, processing and delivery of both structured and unstructured batch and real-time streaming data.
Lead the development of data APIs and data delivery services to support critical operational processes, analytical models and machine learning applications.
Lead the selection and integration of data related tools, frameworks and applications required to expand our platform capabilities.
Understand and implement best practices in management of enterprise data, including master data, reference data, metadata, data quality and lineage.
Participate in an Agile implementation and maintenance of source control and release procedures.
Be an effective communicator while interacting with technical and non-technical audiences
Communicate with business stakeholders to understand goals and translate them to technical solution architecture and requirements
Have an iterative, collaborative and transparent approach to building technical solutions and data products
Lead and mentor other data engineers to follow best engineering practices
Produce technical solutions that satisfy business requirements with a focus on scalability, stability, efficiency, maintainability and extensibility

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, math, engineering, or relevant technical field
Six years of collective experience in the application of data engineering, data modeling, data analytics, data warehousing, business intelligence, database administration and data integration concepts and methodologies
Five years of experience architecting, building, and administering big data and real-time streaming analytics architectures in on premises and cloud environments using but not limited to technologies like Kinesis, Apache Kafka, Apache Spark
Four years of experience architecting, building, and administering large-scale distributed applications frameworks like Spark, Hadoop etc.
Three years of experience with Linux operations and development, including basic commands and shell scripting
Three years of experience executing DevOps , DevSecOps methodologies and continuous integration/continuous delivery
Strong understanding of ETL concepts and REST-oriented APIs for creating and managing data integration jobs.
Experience with AWS services like Lambda, EC2, EMR, EKS, Redshift, Glue, S3, IAM, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB etc.
Knowledge of cloud networking, security, storage, and compute services
Infrastructure provisioning experience using Cloud Formation, Terraform etc.
Data Modeling experience in NoSQL databases like Dynamo DB, Cassandra
Demonstrated skills in detailed-oriented delivery management
Expertise in SQL for data profiling, analysis, and extraction
Familiarity with data science techniques and frameworks
Results oriented and with a strong customer focus
Creative thinker with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Ability to prioritize work to meet tight deadlines
Ability to learn and keep pace with the latest technology advances and quickly grasp new technologies to support the environment and contribute to project deliverables

Preferred Qualifications:

Master’s degree in a technical field (e.g. computer science, math, engineering)
Software development experience in relevant programming languages (e.g. Java, Python, Scala, Node.js)
Understanding of big data and real time streaming analytics processing architecture and data lake ecosystems
Experience with data warehousing architecture and implementation, including hands on experience with source to target mappings and developing ETL code
Experience with advanced analytics and machine learning concepts and technology implementations
Experience with data analysis and using data visualization tools to describe data
Experience with implementing RESTful APIs and Micro services using the design-first approach and focused on asset reusability
Relevant technology or platform certification (AWS Solutions Architect Associate or AWS Data Engineer or AWS Solutions Architect Professional)

Working Conditions:

Office environment: hybrid or remote location
Moderate travel (under 10% expected)

Compensation:

The Salary for this position generally ranges between $130,000 - $150,000 annually. Please note that the salary range is a good faith estimate for this position and actual starting pay is determined by several factors including qualifications, experience, geography, work location designation (in-office, hybrid, remote) and operational needs. Salary may vary above and below the stated amounts, as permitted by applicable law.

Additionally, this position is typically eligible for an Annual Bonus based on the Company Bonus Plan/Individual Performance and is at the Company’s discretion.

This job description is not a contract of employment nor for any specific job responsibilities. The Company may change, add to, remove, or revoke the terms of this job description at its discretion. Managers may assign other duties and responsibilities as needed. In the event an employee or applicant requests or requires an accommodation in order to perform job functions, the applicable HR Business Partner should be contacted to evaluate the accommodation request.

What We Offer

For eligible employees, we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support both the personal and financial well-being of our employees.

Compensation Benefits

Competitive Pay
Bonus for Eligible Employees

Benefits Package

Pension Plan
401k Match
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Tuition Reimbursement
Disability Insurance
Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Employee Discounts
Career Training & Development Opportunities

Health and Work/Life Balance Benefits

Paid Time Off starting at 160 hours annually for employees in their first year of service.
Ten (10) paid holidays per year (typically mirroring the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) holidays).
Be Well Company holistic wellness program, which includes Wellness Coaching and Reward Dollars
Parental Leave – fifteen (15) days of paid parental leave per calendar year to eligible employees with at least one year of service at the time of birth, placement of an adopted child, or placement of a foster care child.
Adoption Assistance
Employee Assistance Program
College Coach Program
Back-Up Care Program
PTO for Volunteer Hours
Employee Matching Gifts Program
Employee Resource Groups
Inclusion and Diversity Programs
Employee Recognition Program
Referral Bonus Programs

Inclusion & Diversity

We believe our commitment to diversity and inclusion creates a work environment filled with exceptional individuals. We’re thrilled to have been recognized for our efforts through the Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index, Dave Thomas Adoption Friendly Advocate, and several Seramount lists, including the Inclusion Index, 100 Best Companies for Working Parents, Best Companies for Dads, and Top 75 Companies for Executive Women.

To foster a culture of inclusivity throughout our workforce, workplace, and marketplace, Transamerica offers a wide range of diversity and inclusion programs. This includes our company-sponsored, employee-driven Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), which are formed around a shared interest or a common characteristic of diversity. ERGs are open to all employees. They provide a supportive environment to help us better appreciate our similarities and differences and understand how they benefit us all.

Giving Back

We believe our responsibilities extend beyond our corporate walls. That's why we created the Aegon Transamerica Foundation in 1994. Through a mix of financial grants and the volunteer efforts of our employees, the foundation supports nonprofit organizations focused on the things that matter most to our people in the communities where we live and work.

Transamerica’s Parent Company

Aegon acquired the Transamerica business in 1999. Since its start in 1844, Aegon has grown into an international company serving more than 23.9 million people across the globe.* It offers investment, protection, and retirement solutions, always with a clear purpose: Helping people live their best lives. As a leading global investor and employer, the company seeks to have a positive impact by addressing critical environmental and societal issues, with a focus on climate change and inclusion and diversity.

* As of December 31, 2023