Associate Data Engineer
Crum & Forster Company Overview
Crum & Forster (C&F) provides market leading property & casualty, accident & health, specialty and standard commercial lines insurance solutions. A true underwriting company, we have a 200-year history of helping our customers manage risk with laser-focused expertise, integrity and discipline. Our people are empowered to make decisions and problem-solve with you smartly and swiftly. Our annual gross written premium is 6.2 billion. C&F enjoys a financial strength rating of "A+" (Superior) by AM Best.
Our most valuable asset is our people. We have 3000 employees, and locations throughout the United States and India. With our employee-first focus, the Company is consistently recognized as a great place to work, earning multiple workplace and wellness awards, including the Great Place to Work® Award, Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For, Fortune Best Workplaces for Parents, Fortune Best Workplaces for Millennials, and many others.
C&F is part of Fairfax Financial Holdings. For more information about C&F, please visit our website: www.cfins.com
Job Description
We are seeking an Associate Data Engineer to support the S&S Data Science team's External Data function. You will build and maintain the pipelines that bring third-party data sources into our underwriting, claims, and business intelligence workflows, working alongside an established data engineer.
What you will do:
- Build and maintain batch and streaming ETL/ELT pipelines that feed a cloud data warehouse
- Develop, schedule, and monitor cloud data jobs, diagnosing failures and tuning for cost and performance
- Write idempotent load logic that handles reprocessing and backfills without creating duplicate data
- Integrate external data providers and APIs with authentication, error handling, and retries
- Implement data quality checks, validation, and alerting to catch pipeline issues early
- Manage and deploy pipelines using infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD
- Support data migrations and service updates with minimal downtime
- Deliver clean, analytics, model-ready datasets for data scientists and analysts
What you will bring to C&F:
- 1-5+ years of professional experience in data engineering or a related software/data role
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related technical field or equivalent experience
- Strong programming skills in Python and SQL
- Familiarity with ETL/ELT concepts and building data pipelines
- Experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS preferred)
- Familiarity with REST APIs and integrating external data sources
- Strong attention to data quality and reliability
- Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and business audiences
Desired skills (nice to have):
- Hands-on experience with AWS data services such as Glue, Lambda, and S3
- Experience loading and modeling data in a cloud data warehouse (e.g. Snowflake)
- Experience with distributed processing frameworks such as Apache Spark
- Experience with streaming technologies such as Kafka or Kinesis
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (CDK, Terraform, or CloudFormation) and monitoring with CloudWatch
- Knowledge of geospatial analysis
- Familiarity with zero-downtime deployment patterns such as blue-green deployments
- Interest in insurance, underwriting, or claims
What C&F will bring to you
- Competitive compensation package
- Generous 401K employer match
- Employee Stock Purchase plan with employer matching
- Generous Paid Time Off
- Excellent benefits that go beyond health, dental & vision. Our programs are focused on your whole family’s wellness, including your physical, mental and financial wellbeing
- A core C&F tenet is supporting your career development, so we provide a wealth of ways for you to keep learning, which may include tuition reimbursement, industry-related certifications and professional training to keep you progressing on your chosen path
- A dynamic, ambit