
Data Engineer Senior
Progressive Insurance
Visa & sponsorship
- The posting says it will not sponsor a visa for this role.
- The posting accepts OPT/CPT candidates. OPT needs no sponsorship.
Job description
Progressive is dedicated to helping employees move forward and live fully in their careers. Your journey has already begun. Apply today and take the first step to Destination: Progress.
As a senior data engineer on the Claims IT AI Enablement team, you’ll play a key role in delivering reliable, scalable data solutions that support Claims applications, analytics, and business outcomes. You’ll design, build, and support Snowflake-based data pipelines that ingest and transform structured and semi-structured data from cloud sources. You’ll develop production solutions using Snowpark and Python while applying incremental processing, change data capture, and metadata-driven design patterns. You’ll also optimize platform performance and cost, implement monitoring and automated recovery capabilities, and ensure data quality, security, and governance. Additionally, you’ll provide production support through an on-call rotation and collaborate with business and technology partners to resolve issues and continuously improve the data platform.
Schedule: 1st shift ET, CT, or MT, Mon – Fri; on-call rotation every 2 weeks (primary then secondary coverage)
This is a remote position for US-based work only with occasional travel to the Cleveland, OH area for meetings and/or training.
Minimum qualifications
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Bachelor's Degree or higher in an Information Technology discipline or related field of study and minimum of two years of work experience designing, programming, and supporting software programs or applications.
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In lieu of degree, minimum of four years related work experience designing, programming, and supporting software programs or applications may be accepted.
Preferred skills
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Experience designing, building, and supporting enterprise data pipelines using Snowflake, Snowpark with Python, Snowpipe, Streams, Tasks, stored procedures, UDFs, and semi-structured VARIANT data.
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Experience implementing scalable ingestion patterns for structured and semi-structured data, including JSON processing, cloud-based and event-driven ingestion, schema drift, incremental processing, change data capture, deduplication, and idempotent loading.
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Experience designing metadata-driven ingestion and transformation frameworks that support automated data onboarding, schema evolution, reusable pipeline components, configuration management, and governance workflows.
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Experience optimizing the performance, reliability, and cost of large-scale data platforms through query profiling, warehouse sizing, clustering, pruning, batching, dynamic tables, monitoring, alerting, testing, and automated recovery.
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Experience applying modern data engineering practices, including AWS cloud technologies, CI/CD, Git-based development, infrastructure as code, data governance, and Generative AI or LLM solutions with appropriate governance and human oversight.
Compensation
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$120,000-$130,000/year
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Gainshare annual cash incentive payment up to 30% of your eligible earnings based on company performance
Benefits
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401(k) with dollar-for-dollar company match up to 6%
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Medical, dental & vision, including free preventative care
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Wellness & mental health programs
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Health care flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, & life insurance
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Paid time off, including volunteer time off
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Paid & unpaid sick leave where applicable, as well as short & long-term disability
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Parental & family leave; military leave & pay
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Diverse, inclusive & welcoming culture with Employee Resource Groups
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Career development & tuition assistance
Energage recognizes Progressive as a 2026 Top Workplace for: Innovation, Purposes & Values, Work-Life Flexibility, Compensation & Benefits, and Leadership.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Sponsorship for work authorization for foreign national candidates is not available for this position. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. without the need or potential need, of current or future sponsorship for employment. Progressive does not hire candidates with (e.g., F-1 CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT, H-1B, O-1, E-3, TN) statuses for this role.
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