Responsibilities
Essential Job Functions:
Enterprise data strategy and architecture
Define and lead the enterprise data architecture strategy, target state, and multi-year roadmap for Mercury’s data platform
Establish reference architectures, standards, and guardrails for data ingestion, transformation, modeling, orchestration, quality, observability, and consumption
Drive architecture decisions for enterprise data platforms, including EDW, lakehouse, streaming, operational data integration, and domain-oriented data products
Partner with senior Technology and business leaders to align data investments to enterprise priorities, business value, and long-term scalability
Evaluate current-state architecture, identify gaps, and lead rationalization of tools, patterns, and technical debt across the data ecosystem
Technical leadership and architecture enablement
Provide technical direction and architectural leadership to data engineering, analytics engineering, and platform teams
Set standards for design quality, model integrity, operational excellence, and scalable delivery across the Enterprise Data & Operations function
Mentor engineers and technical leaders in architectural thinking, modern engineering practices, and delivery excellence
Build an automation-first culture focused on reliability, repeatability, maintainability, and continuous improvement
Raise the bar on technical quality, design rigor, and execution across the data engineering organization
Platform and solution delivery
Design, develop, and oversee end-to-end enterprise data solutions supporting multiple data domains, data marts, and analytics use cases
Guide the design and modernization of foundational enterprise data models, including decisions around grain, entities, relationships, conformed dimensions, and slowly changing dimensions
Ensure scalable batch and streaming data pipelines are built to support both enterprise reporting and advanced analytics environments
Drive implementation of layered data architecture patterns, including Bronze/Silver/Gold or equivalent logical data zones
Partner with Engineering teams to productionize data pipelines with strong performance, resiliency, and operational supportability
Data reliability, governance, and operational excellence
Own the reliability, quality, consistency, and observability of Mercury’s core data assets and pipelines
Establish and enforce data quality frameworks, automated testing, lineage, monitoring, alerting, and recovery processes
Define service levels and operational standards for critical data products and pipelines
Reduce manual processes and technical debt through standardization, automation, and disciplined platform engineering
Partner with security, compliance, and governance stakeholders to ensure data architecture aligns with enterprise risk and control requirements
Cross-functional influence and innovation
Translate business problems into scalable data products, architecture patterns, and prioritized roadmaps
Partner across Product, Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, and business teams to ensure the data platform enables real business outcomes
Lead proof of concepts, architecture reviews, and technology evaluations for new tools and capabilities
Influence vendor selection, platform direction, and engineering standards through fact-based analysis and practical technical leadership
Identify opportunities to apply GenAI and LLM capabilities to improve engineering productivity, data operations, governance, and insight generation
Qualifications
Education
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field; Master’s degree preferred
Experience
12+ years of experience in data engineering, data architecture, or enterprise data platform leadership
5-10 years of experience leading, mentoring, and growing high-performing data engineering or analytics engineering teams
Knowledge and Skills
Proven experience defining enterprise data strategy and leading large-scale modernization of data pipelines, platforms, and models
Deep expertise in enterprise data modeling, including 3NF, dimensional, star, and snowflake patterns, with strong judgment on how to model real-world business processes
Strong experience redesigning foundational data models and pipelines with a focus on scalability, usability, and reliability
Expert-level SQL and Python skills, with strong production experience in Informatica and dbt, including models, testing, and package management
Experience with orchestration frameworks such as Airflow, Dagster, Tivoli, or similar tools
Familiarity with streaming and event-driven data technologies such as Kafka or comparable platforms
Hands-on experience with modern warehouse and lakehouse platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift, or BigQuery
Strong understanding of cloud-native engineering practices across AWS, GCP, or Azure
Demonstrated commitment to engineering best practices, including Git, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, testing, and DRY design principles
Experience implementing data quality, observability, lineage, and operational controls in production environments
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence technical and non-technical leaders
Data product mindset with the ability to turn business needs into architecture, roadmaps, and execution plans
Experience in insurance, SaaS, or marketplace environments is a plus
Experience leveraging GenAI or LLM platforms such as OpenAI, Claude, or Gemini to solve meaningful business and engineering problems is strongly preferred
About the Company
Why choose a career at Mercury?
At Mercury, we have been guided by our purpose to help people reduce risk and overcome unexpected events for more than 60 years. We are one team with a common goal to help others. Everyone needs insurance and we can’t imagine a world without it.
Our team will encourage you to grow, make time to have fun, and work together to make great things happen. We embrace the strengths and values of each team member. We believe in having diverse perspectives where everyone is included, to serve customers from all walks of life.
We care about our people, and we mean it. We reward our talented professionals with a competitive salary, bonus potential, and a variety of benefits to help our team members reach their health, retirement, and professional goals.
Learn more about us here: https://www.mercuryinsurance.com/about/careers
Perks and Benefits
We offer many great benefits, including
Competitive compensation
Flexibility to work from anywhere in the United States for most positions
Paid time off (vacation time, sick time, 9 paid Company holidays, volunteer hours)
Incentive bonus programs (potential for holiday bonus, referral bonus, and performance-based bonus)
Medical, dental, vision, life, and pet insurance
401 (k) retirement savings plan with company match
Engaging work environment
Promotional opportunities
Education assistance
Professional and personal development opportunities
Company recognition program
Health and wellbeing resources, including free mental wellbeing therapy/coaching sessions, child and eldercare resources, and more
Mercury Insurance is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
Pay Range
USD $107,344.71 - USD $300,603.92 /Yr.
