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Senior Staff Data Engineer

Salary

$127k - $158k

Min Experience

7 years

Location

United States

JobType

full-time

About the job

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Overview

About the role

About Integrated Specialty Coverages

Integrated Specialty Coverages, LLC (ISC) is a growth stage technology and data-driven commercial MGA and insurance wholesaler leading innovation in the market.

Backed by one of the leading private equity firms, Onex Partners, and led by a forward-thinking management team, ISC is combining the worlds of insurance and technology to create an Insurtech powerhouse. As a leading online distributor of insurance products for a range of industries and “Main Street USA”, we are looking for the right people to help us in our mission of achieving exponential growth. We strive to be the number one place to go for brokers and agents to source insurance. To accomplish this, we’re building a digitally focused team that deeply understands the intersection between user experience, data, and AI/ML to optimize the way we engage with our customers and partners.

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 HR@ISCMGA.com or 760-599-7242.

ISC believes in creating long-term relationships by being responsive and relevant and by consistently delivering value to our community of customers. Specifically, we focus on attracting, developing, and retaining the best talent for our business, challenging our people, demonstrating a “can-do” attitude, and fostering a collaborative and mutually supportive environment.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, mental or physical disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or Federal law.

**Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.**

**ISC participates in the Federal E-Verify program**

About the company

Underwrites and distributes technology-enabled commercial insurance solutions.

Skills

AWS

Python

SQL

DBT

Snowflake

Docker

Airflow