Data Engineer

Utilize data analysis skills while partnering with investment teams. This position will be will directly responsible for the design, maintenance, and support of various data management activities (ETL, Master Data Management, etc.) in the Ameritas Investment Partners (AIP) production environment.

At Ameritas, our mission is Fulfilling Life. We do that in many ways, but especially by helping people invest in themselves by offering trusted financial products and advice. Because we believe everyone should be happy, healthy, and financially secure, we work hard to provide trusted financial products and valued guidance, including individual life and disability insurance, employee benefits, retirement planning, investments, and wealth management services.

This position is a hybrid role working partially in-office (in either Lincoln, NE or Cincinnati, OH) and partially from home. As compared with other data engineer roles, this position will be very communication heavy. This is not a coding role with minimal people interaction. This is a role with heavy stakeholder interaction, where strong and clear communication skills will be critically important.

What you do

• Partner with leaders and portfolio managers from within A.I.P. division to conduct elicitation activities to obtain information from stakeholders to formulate requirements.
• Perform ETL system analysis, design, development, integration, maintenance, and support using SQL, Python, Azure Cloud and other tools.
• Support multiple small to large complexity projects that require technical skills in multiple environments. Act as a project team member or occasional project lead as required.
• Contribute to ETL solutioning efforts within the A.I.P. team, and partnering with application owners, architects, business analysts, and representatives of the Data Engineering team within I.T.
• Perform server and infrastructure management running schedules and scripts.
• Build, manipulate, and adjust complex computational algorithms using Python.

What you bring

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience required.
• 1-3 years of relevant experience required. Relevant experiences should include technical experience (see list below) or investment product experiences, or some combination of the two.
• SQL experience required.
• Python experience is desired.
• Azure cloud experience desired.
• Investment product knowledge or experience desired.

What We Offer

• Our company motto is "Fulfilling Life" and we take that job seriously, with a heavy commitment to volunteering and community support, employee well-being, and providing quality products and services that help our customers create a brighter future.
• Being a mutual-based organization, the return on our investment goes back into the company, to benefit our members/customers.
• We're committed to professional development, opportunity, inclusion and diversity. Team building and collaboration are also priorities.
• A total rewards package with all the comprehensive health and welfare benefits you'd expect, including competitive pay and incentives, 401(k), flexible work schedules and time off to care for yourself and others.
• Additional popular benefits, including tuition reimbursement, and student loan repayment, an incentivized well-being program, adoption assistance, paid time off for volunteering, training, and career development opportunities.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

Ameritas has a reputation as a company that cares, and because everyone should feel safe bringing their authentic, whole self to work, we're committed to an inclusive culture and diverse workplace, enriched by our individual differences. We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer that hires based on qualifications, positive attitude, and exemplary work ethic, regardless of sex, race, color, national origin, religion, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.