Atlanta, Georgia, Boston, Massachusetts, Charlotte, North Carolina, Cincinnati, Ohio, Des Moines, Iowa, Hartford, Connecticut, San Antonio, Texas
Kemper is one of the nation’s leading specialized insurers. Our success is a direct reflection of the talented and diverse people who make a positive difference in the lives of our customers every day. We believe a high-performing culture, valuable opportunities for personal development and professional challenge, and a healthy work-life balance can be highly motivating and productive. Kemper’s products and services are making a real difference to our customers, who have unique and evolving needs. By joining our team, you are helping to provide an experience to our stakeholders that delivers on our promises.
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Data Engineer to guide the design, development, and delivery of our enterprise data platforms. This role requires deep technical expertise with Snowflake, Core AWS Services, cloud-based architecture, and modern data engineering frameworks. As a senior engineer, you will define architectural patterns, mentor engineering teams, and ensure the successful execution of strategic data initiatives that support analytics, reporting, and business intelligence efforts across the organization.
Position Responsibilities:
Technical Leadership & Architecture
Provide technical leadership to data engineers, setting standards for solution design, coding practices, data governance, and quality.
Solution Design & Data Engineering
Architect and oversee the delivery of scalable data pipelines, ingestion frameworks, and transformation processes using Snowflake, Python, Spark, Informatica (PowerCenter/IDMC), AWS Glue, and cloud-native tooling.
Design and maintain enterprise data models, including Data Vault 2.0 (Hubs, Links, Satellites, PIT, Bridge structures) and dimensional models.
Snowpipe, Streams, Tasks, File Formats, External Stages
Stakeholder Engagement & Delivery Ownership
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent relevant experience/certifications.
This position can be worked hybrid out of a local Kemper office, including Chicago, IL, Birmingham, AL, Richardson, TX, or Jacksonville, FL. For non-local candidates, remote options with travel are available.
The range for this position is $99,000 to $164,800. When determining candidate offers, we consider experience, skills, education, certifications, and geographic location among other factors. This job is eligible for an annual discretionary bonus and Kemper benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, PTO, 401k, etc.)
Kemper is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, disability status or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We are committed to supporting diversity and equality across our organization and we work diligently to maintain a workplace free from discrimination.
Kemper does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Kemper and Kemper will not be obligated to pay a placement fee.
Kemper will never request personal information, such as your social security number or banking information, via text or email. Additionally, Kemper does not use external messaging applications like WireApp or Skype to communicate with candidates. If you receive such a message, delete it.
