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Data Engineer (Insurance, Sports)

Players Health
Edina, MN Full Time
POSTED ON 1/15/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/4/2025

Job Description

Job Description

Salary :

Data Engineer / Dev Ops

About Players Health

At Players Health, we are on a mission to create the safest and most accessible environment for an athlete to play the sports that they love. This is not only our mission, but also our promise to sports. A promise we will not break. There are over 50 million youth athletes playing sports in the US and they are counting on us to ensure that the environment that they are coming into not only accepts them for who they are, but fills them with encouragement, love, inspiration, and so much more.

Players Health is a VC backed, mission-driven, sports technology platform providing digital risk management services, reporting tools and insurance products to sports organizations to comply with the changing athletic environment and responsibilities.

Our Core Values

We cannot achieve our mission without having a strong culture. We believe that at the core of a strong culture is a shared set of values. The values that we hold true and look for our employees to embrace are as follows :

  • Lead with Mission : Our mission always comes first. If we stay on mission as an organization then we believe we will be successful in our professional and personal lives.
  • Go Beyond : We're not satisfied with just "good enough" - we go above and beyond to achieve awesome results that impress and inspire.
  • Operate like Owners : We believe in operational excellence. We take ownership of our work and approach every task with a sense of pride, responsibility, and commitment to excellence. We don't just rent our roles - we own them and strive to make a lasting impact.
  • Virtue First : From the big decisions to the small details; honesty, integrity, and transparency are the bedrock of our culture and the foundation for everything we do.
  • Service : We live to serve others with humility, empathy, and kindness. We put our customers, colleagues and community first, and always strive to exceed their expectations with a smile.

About the Role

The ideal candidate will have at least 10-year experience with a strong foundation in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and data engineering. Additionally, candidate comes with a passion for sports and has general knowledge of sports and ability to learn and grow this knowledge. The ideal candidate should have extensive years of experience working in cloud environment with proficiency preferably in Azure. The candidate is responsible in implementing the data engineering ecosystem of the company. The candidate will also be working and driving the Dev Ops areas such as containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes is also essential.

The ideal candidate has a strong experience in the Data Ingestion and Data Transformation (ETL / ELT) of data from various data sources such as RDBS, Web Portals and Rest-Api. The candidate is responsible in the data lake implementation and data management of these data. Additionally, the candidate should have experience in scripting and programming languages like Python, and data analysis languages such as SQL. Furthermore, the candidate should have an exposure with large language models (LLM) and ML cloud infrastructure.

The ideal candidate will collaborate with various departments in Sales, Marketing, and Underwriting to understand and participate in building innovative insurance and sports products. This role will report to the head of Data Analytics team and is available to work remotely or from our Minneapolis Office. Players Health is a distributed workforce that offers a flexible, remote and / or hybrid work environment. The Data Engineer role has a base pay range of $130,000 - $185,000, depending on skills and experience.

Players Health offers a competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package, including Medical, Dental, Vision, STD, LTD, and 401K. Additional benefits include Flexible Time Off, Parental Leave and more. Role comes with a salary commensurate with experience. You will join an organization going through significant growth as well as digital transformation. Players Health instills a mindset of ownership and accountability with all managers and team members, providing a playbook for best practices defining expectations to meet the vision and strategy for growth.

Responsibilities (are inclusive of but not limited to) :

  • Design, implement, and manage cloud-based infrastructure and services to support data engineering and analytics workloads.
  • Develop and maintain CI / CD pipelines for data processing and analytics applications.
  • Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and software engineers to ensure seamless integration and deployment of data solutions.
  • Monitor and optimize the performance, scalability, and reliability of cloud-based data platforms.
  • Implement security best practices and ensure compliance with data protection regulations.
  • Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment processes.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to cloud infrastructure, data pipelines, and applications.
  • Stay up to date with the latest cloud technologies, tools, and best practices.
  • Align with and embody our company core values (Mission, Operational Excellence, Results Drive, Service, Virtue First)
  • Identify areas for continuous improvement of processes to increase operational excellence
  • Demonstrate responsiveness and urgency to internal customers, within and across departments.
  • Drive continuous improvement with the development of new standards, best practices, and process improvements
  • Work with the cross-functional teams to integrate model and estimate time & budget.
  • Stay apprized of the sports market and customer needs specific to sports, tournaments, facilities, contracts, and organizations.
  • Minimum Skills & Qualifications :

  • 10 years of experience in cloud infrastructure (Cloud Ops), Dev Ops, and data engineering.
  • Proficiency in cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
  • Knowledgeable with infrastructure-as-code tools like Bicep, Terraform, or Ansible.
  • Knowledgeable with CI / CD tools such as Git, Jenkins, Azure Dev Ops.
  • Knowledgeable in scripting and programming languages such as Python.
  • 10 years of experience in data analysis languages like SQL for data management and administration
  • 7 years of experience in data ingestion (ETL / ELT) tools such as ADF, Informatica
  • 5 years of experience in Data Transformation such as python to ingest data from Rest-Api and Web Portals
  • 5 years of experience in implementing Data Lake infrastructure and security
  • Experience in Native and Cross platform Integration of various Cloud Resources
  • Experience with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Knowledge of data processing frameworks such as Apache Spark or Kafka.
  • Knowledge of LLM and ML cloud infrastructure.
  • 5 experience in Databricks platform
  • 5 experience in RDBMS like Snowflake, Postgres, or SQL Server platform
  • Experience using various IDE preferably VS Code and Jupyter Notebook
  • Experience in using SQL IDE tools such as SSMS, DBeaver
  • Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
  • Good interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills
  • Ability to write clean, well-documented code that follows good coding practices.
  • A hands-on, engaged approach to solving problems.
  • Excellent communication skills and experience in collaborative environments.
  • Experience working in an agile development environment.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills to communicate strategy and solutions.
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate and explain technical solutions to non- technical individuals.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • Desired Characteristics :

  • 10 years of experience in cloud infrastructure (Cloud Ops), Dev Ops, and data engineering.
  • 10 years in Azure cloud environment.
  • Knowledgeable with CI / CD tools such as Git , Jenkins, Azure Dev Ops.
  • 5 years of experience in implementing Data Lake infrastructure and security
  • Extensive experience in Databricks platform
  • 7 years of experience in data ingestion tools such as ADF, SSIS, Informatica
  • Knowledge of LLM and ML cloud infrastructure.
  • 5 years of experience in Data Transformation language such as python to ingest data from Rest-Api and Web Portals
  • 5 year experience working in the Insurance Domain
  • Additional Requirements :

  • Ability to travel occasionally for team events, collaboration, engagement, conferences, or customer visits
  • Must have a dedicated safe and secure remote work environment
  • Must have the ability to work and be productive in a remote work environment
  • Exceptionally self-motivated and ability to work autonomously
  • Proactive communicator in all communication methods, including email (Outlook), verbal (in-person & phone), instant messaging (Slack & Teams)
  • Willingness and ability to attend virtual meetings with camera on we respect that there are times when employees may need to turn their camera off. We also have a great culture and want to engage with you! By regularly using cameras, we form connections and get to know each other, as well as promoting positive and respectful interactions amongst colleagues.
  • Located in or willingness to work on Central or Eastern Time Zone
  • Must be 18 or older
  • Work location must be in the United States
  • Players Health is committed to building a diverse and inclusive work environment. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity, national origin or ancestry, age, citizenship, disability, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

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