**Company Summary**Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. Thats the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 160 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.**Job Category**Bus Intelligence & Management Information, Technology**Target Openings**1**Job Description Summary**Travelers is looking for an experienced Data Engineering Leader to lead Corporate and Shared Systems Decision Analytics and Insights team. This is a new role focused on developing and improving data engineering practices and disciplines supporting business decision analytics, insights and information delivery within CSS. This leader will partner with the Enterprise Data & Analytic community as well as CSS technology leads, architects, and business partners to develop and implement a technology strategy for analytics and information delivery supporting the Corporate areas. Please consider joining the team if youd like to work in a dynamic, business critical environment, possess exceptional technical skills and want to have an impact on several vital business capabilities and strategies.This position may be based 100% remotely or in one of our offices.**Primary Job Duties & Responsibilities**+ The primary accountability for the person filling this role is to be a key leader in the CSS Data Engineering Chapter for the Decision Analytics and Information Delivery skilled engineers and to be an active participant in Enterprise Data & Analytics strategic initiatives:+ Provide HR and technical leadership, foster a team environment, and provide mentorship and feedback to technical resources.+ Develop robust talent pipeline. Provide unique opportunities and challenges to each team member to enrich development.+ Apply knowledge of current industry trends and techniques to formulate solutions within the context of assigned efforts.+ Ensure consistent use of design patterns and best practices necessary for increased access to data and actionable information and implement strategic solutions to sustain these capabilities.+ Participate on the Enterprise Decision Analytics and Insights leadership team as the CSS representative.+ Work closely with CSS Value Stream leads, Circle Leads, Architects, and the broader data/analytic community to:+ Ensure adherence to a common Decision Analytics Data Architecture and design patterns+ Provide mentorship and train staff on standards and policies around best practices+ Work directly with the business partners to understand review business analytics needs and collaborate with Circle architects on designing and implementing strategic solutions+ Complete expert engineering tasks for impactful and high-visibility initiatives leading a team of engineers building new Decision Analytics and Information Delivery applications in tools like MicroStrategy and Qlik as well as transitioning from legacy solutions.+ Build and develop discipline-specific capabilities across multiple teams, equipping individuals with the skills, tools, and standard approaches to improve the overall quality of engineering practices and skill sets.**Minimum Qualifications**+ Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or its equivalent in work experience.+ Five years of programming/development experience.+ Five years of experience of technical leadership.**Education, Work Experience, & Knowledge**+ Seven years of programming/development experience plus two years prior technical leadership experience preferred.**Job Specific Technical Skills & Competencies**+ Delivery - Advanced delivery skills including the ability to examine and assess the effectiveness of software design strategies and methodologies across an organization, the ability to devise, apply, and share ways to ensure the quality, production readiness, and continued health of complex computer systems, the ability to incorporate awareness and understanding of work happening outside of the team, and the ability to develop widely used technical metrics that enable engineers to better understand and deliver their work.+ Domain Expertise - Demonstrated track record of domain expertise including the ability to leverage expertise to improve company level capabilities within domain, consult on business priorities and optimize value by identifying business aligned solutions and thoughtfully and practically introduce concepts and technologies from the industry.+ Problem Solving - Strong problem solver who creates architecture that is particularly robust against single points of failure, both in terms of systems and people and looks ahead 6-12 months to identify areas of need and turns this into action.+ Communication - Strong communicator who possesses the ability to describe technology concepts in ways the business can understand, document effectively so that systems/architectures can be maintained or built upon, collaborate across disparate groups, helping to identify common goals and gain consensus, adapt language to meet the needs of various levels of technical and non-technical audiences and model and assist others in the practice of mindful communication, active listening, and messaging.+ Leadership - Advanced leadership skills including the ability to leverage internal networks across engineering and engage with other leaders to solve problems and develop strong credibility throughout the company as well as choose the most critical engineering challenges and work to improve the entire engineering organization by teaching others and sharing knowledge while creating opportunities for others to showcase and develop skills.**Employment Practices**Travelers is an equal opportunity employer. We value the unique abilities and talents each individual brings to our organization and recognize that we benefit in numerous ways from our differences.If you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email ( @travelers.com) 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.