The Travelers Companies, Inc

Senior Data Engineer (AWS, Databricks)

The Travelers Companies, Inc$139K — $230K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in STEM field or equivalent
  • 10 years of experience building production data pipelines
  • Experience with AWS, Databricks, Snowflake, and Ab Initio
  • Proven ability to leverage AI tools in data engineering practices
  • Ability to lead data engineering initiatives across infrastructure types
  • Willingness to mentor a team of 20 engineers
  • Expertise in optimizing cloud resources deployment

Responsibilities

  • Design and build production data pipelines in AWS, Snowflake, and Databricks
  • Establish reusable engineering patterns and frameworks
  • Drive down lead time from commit to production
  • Champion SDLC discipline including version control and documentation
  • Integrate AI tools for improved data engineering workflow
  • Evaluate emerging tools and make recommendations
  • Optimize cost and performance across data platforms

Benefits

  • Health insurance from day one for employees and families
  • 401(k) matching contributions and a Pension Plan by Travelers
  • Minimum of 20 days Paid Time Off annually plus nine paid holidays
  • Wellness program with mental health access and health coaching
  • Encouragement of community involvement with matching gift and volunteer rewards programs
Full Job Description
Job Category
Technology

Compensation Overview

The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.

Salary Range
$139,400.00 - $230,000.00

Target Openings
1

What Is the Opportunity?
Travelers Data Engineering team constructs pipelines that contextualize and provide easy access to data by the entire enterprise. As a Senior Data Engineer you will accelerate growth and transformation of our analytics landscape. You will bring a strong desire to guide team members' growth and develop data solutions that translate complex data into user-friendly terminology. You will leverage your ability to design, build and deploy data solutions that capture, explore, transform, and utilize data to support Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and business intelligence/insights.What Will You Do?
  • Design and build production data pipelines across AWS, Snowflake, Databricks supporting both batch and near real-time analytics workloads.
  • Establish reusable engineering patterns and frameworks - Parameterized, modular, idempotent pipeline templates that other engineers adopt, reducing duplicated effort and inconsistent implementations.
  • Drive down lead time from commit to production by removing manual steps, leveraging AI, building self-service tooling, and standardizing the path to deployment; treat cycle time as a metric you actively own and improve.
  • Champion SDLC discipline coveringversion control, peer code review, automated testing, environment promotion, change management, and documentation.
  • Integrate AI coding tools into daily workflow to accelerate scaffolding, refactoring, test generation, code optimization, and documentation, with measurable and demonstrable impact on throughput and quality.
  • Measure and demonstrate impact, tying AI-tool adoption to concrete outcomes such as reduced lead time, faster test coverage, and improved consistency, and sharing those results to drive broader adoption.
  • Evaluate emerging tooling and make pragmatic recommendations on what engineers should adopt, standardize on, or avoid.
  • DataOps- Blur the lines between data and software engineering practices. Employ CI/CD, automated testing, and apply trunk-based or short-lived branch development to data the same way it is to software.
  • Modernize legacy workloads - Help manage and optimize Ab>Initio pipelines and when applicable, help migrate or re-platform Ab>Initio pipelines toward cloud-native, declarative, ELT-based patterns on Snowflake and Databricks where it delivers value.
  • Embed data quality, observability, and lineage into pipelines as a default, not an afterthought, automated data tests, freshness/quality SLAs, and traceable lineage.
  • Optimize for cost and performance across Snowflake compute, Databricks clusters, and storage, applying FinOps-aware engineering practices.
  • Mentor and upskill engineers through code review, pairing, design guidance, and documented standards, acting as a technical multiplier for the team.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?
  • Bachelor’s Degree in STEM related field or equivalent
  • Ten years of related experience building, designing and operating production data pipelines at scale.
  • Demonstrable experience architecting, designing and building scalable, secure data solutions using AWS, Databricks, Snowflake and Ab>Initio or similar platforms.
  • A track record of leveraging AI assistants, create skills/tools to augment data engineering practices throughout the development lifecycle.
  • The ability to lead technical direction for data engineering initiatives across cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
  • Willingness to run mentoring sessions and offer technical guidance to the 20-person admin team.
  • Ability to manage infrastructure deployment and optimize cloud resources.
  • Drive to learn, identify and set technical standards and influence engineering practices and data governance policies.
  • Ability to lead and take action even when there is no clear owner, inspire and motivate others, and be effective at influencing team members.
  • Technical Skills:
    • Cloud: Proficiency with commonly used AWS services and architectures for data and analytics solutions
    • Databricks: Workspace management, cluster configuration, open table formats (Iceberg, Delta Lake), Unity Catalog, building and tuning Spark/pySpark/SQL workloads.
    • Data Warehousing: Strong understanding of data modeling, dimensional modeling (star/snowflake schemas) and medallion (bronze/silver/gold) architecture.
    • AI Coding Assistants: Familiarity using Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, Cursor, etc. for day-to-day engineering tasks.
    • AbInitio: Proficiency with GDE, Co>Operating System, and EME, including maintaining and optimizing existing graphs.
    • CI/CD for data: Git-based workflows, branching strategy, and pipeline automation (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins).
    • Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform): Familiarity with a configuration-driven, repeatable approach to environments
What is a Must Have?
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, related STEM field, or its equivalent in education and/or work experience.
  • 6 additional years of data engineering 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.

About The Travelers Companies, Inc

Travelers is an insurance leader, committed to keeping pace with the ever-changing needs of their customers and anticipating their needs for the future. There is no stronger testament to their dedication to protecting customers from loss than their continued innovation and ability to transform their industry. In fact, from the first-ever auto and space travel policies and hybrid car discount, to the 2009 founding of The Travelers Institute for public policy, their history of advancements has propelled their company—and their industry—towards ever higher standards for customers. Travelers is a company that works hard at the science of what they do: they analyze information, process perspectives and measure results to create the best combination of products and services. They work equally hard at customer service and how they interact with the people whom they do business. Over the years, they've strived to earn their customer's loyalty by continually improving their abilities to listen and respond to their needs.

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Learn more about The Travelers Companies, Inc
Size
30,800 employees
Market Cap
$44.1 billion
Industry
Net Income
$2.6 billion
Founded
1853
5 Year Trend
+4.7%
Revenue
$32 billion
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