Job Summary

The Senior Staff Data Engineer is the technical owner of ISC's data platform, responsible for defining architecture, driving technical decisions, and delivering solutions that align with business objectives. This role serves as the primary technical authority across the data engineering team and will lead architecture discussions, mentor engineers, and set engineering standards. You will partner directly with engineering, product, data science, and business stakeholders to translate complex business needs into scalable technical solutions. You must navigate ambiguity, scope undefined problems, and drive them to completion independently. A strong emphasis on AI, both integrated in the development workflow and user-facing capabilities, is expected with a commitment to upskilling the team in modern tooling and practices. No prior insurance knowledge is required, but you must quickly develop deep domain expertise.

Position Responsibilities

• Own the technical architecture and long-term strategy of ISC's data platform, making technology decisions that balance scalability, maintainability, and business value.
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted development practices and build AI-driven capabilities that create measurable business value
• Partner with executive, product, engineering, and business stakeholders to translate complex business needs into technical strategy and delivery plans
• Provide hands-on technical mentorship to data engineers through code reviews, architecture discussions, and knowledge sharing
• Navigate ambiguous, undefined problems by scoping them independently and delivering solutions aligned with business priorities
• Design, build, and maintain data infrastructure for extraction, transformation, and loading from a wide variety of sources using AWS, DBT + SQL on Snowflake, Python, Docker, and Airflow.

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years of data engineering experience from requirements through production and maintenance
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related degree or equivalent experience
• Strong experience building, optimizing and debugging data models, pipelines and data warehousing using SQL, DBT and Snowflake
• 7+ years of experience writing production software in a cloud-native environment using Python and AWS services (S3, Batch, ECR, DMS, MWAA)
• Experience integrating AI/ML tools into development workflows or building AI-driven data products
• Demonstrated experience as a technical authority by driving architecture decisions, setting engineering standards, and mentoring engineers
• A successful history of transforming, processing and extracting value from large disconnected, datasets from a variety of data sources (Flat files, Excel, databases, APIs, etc.)
• Experience working in a complex, fast-moving environment as part of a small, collaborative team

Preferred Qualifications

• Insurance industry systems and technology experience
• Experience building AI/ML pipelines or leading AI adoption initiatives across engineering teams
• Prior experience working in a staff or principal engineer role or equivalent technical leadership position
• Experience operating in a high-growth or PE-backed environment with competing priorities and fast timelines

This role also offers bonus pay. Your ISC Talent Acquisition representative will share more details about the bonus component should you advance in the interview process.

The starting annual pay scale for this position is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on factors such as skills, qualifications, training, and experience. In addition, the company offers comprehensive benefits including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k) plan with match, paid time off, and other benefits.

ISC's salary ranges are determined by role and level. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations and could be higher or lower based on a multitude of factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

National Pay Range

$127,036-$158,795 USD

Benefits of Working at ISC

• Employee Ownership Program - every eligible employee shares in the financial rewards that grow when the company grows
• Professional development opportunities
• Owner Referral Program
• Work from home reimbursement for remote/hybrid roles
• Canary emergency financial assistance program
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision
• Life/AD&D Insurance
• Confidential, Employee Assistance Program
• Health Savings Account, includes company contribution
• Short-term disability
• Voluntary benefits - supplemental accident, critical illness, hospital insurance
• Employee discounts
• 401(k) Plan with company match contribution
• Addition Wealth Financial Wellness Program
• Various Time Off Programs
• 11 company paid holidays

Applicants may contact the ISC HR department via e-mail or phone to request and arrange for an accommodation that will allow the applicant to successfully complete the application process. Applicants needing assistance may request accommodation at any time. Please contact ISC at [redacted] or [redacted].