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Data Analytics incorporates techniques from many disciplines, including data acquisition, computer programming, data engineering, software development, high performance computing, and traditional business expertise, with the goal of extracting meaning from data to optimize future business decisions. Individuals in this field should wish to be experts in several of these disciplines and sufficiently proficient in others to effectively design, build, and deliver end to end products to optimize future decisions. Successful individuals demonstrate significant analytic agility, and quickly develop new skills across these disciplines as they evolve. The Junior Data Analytics Engineer role is responsible for working with clients to create scaled out business solutions and/or data using best practices, appropriate tools and software to provide documented, trusted and actionable results. This role requires analytic agility and the ability to quickly learn new techniques and technologies.

Job Summary
D3: Data, Discovery & Decision Science is the research and analytics organization for Allstate. Our mission is to enable, through analytics, the delivery of perfect insurance solutions to our customers. In this role you’ll be responsible for the development of data infrastructure, business solutions, and proof of concept to equip Data Scientists with the datasets they need for modeling, including creating new and maintaining existing data acquisition processes end to end. You are a bold, consultative thought leader who loves looking at problems from a business and a technical perspective and conceptualizing and delivering elegant, repeatable, beyond scope solutions that our non-technical colleagues are eager to use. You can frame the business need as a technical solution, break it into approachable tasks, and manage them through development, execution, and delivery with excellence. We are looking for a natural teacher to mentor junior engineers on tools and the development process. You are also an avid and versatile learner, eager to grow, collaborate, and develop with the team.

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with Data Scientists and business partners, demonstrating subject matter expertise in the business as well as advanced analytics
• Participate in requirement development, breaking down business problems into solvable components and assists in documenting requirements
• Participates in developing test plans and scripts, preparation of test data, reconciliation of data sources, and execution of functional tests.
• Help develop and deliver the data infrastructure required to support needs of predictive modeling and analytics with minimal supervision
• Execute rapid development of new data and analytic work tracks with fast iteration over quick sprints
• Leverage “agile” data analysis with technology fluency in parallel processing/programming, software/programming languages and technologies (i.e. Oracle, MongoDB, SQL, Python, Spark, Kafka, Scala and Hadoop) paired with a high degree of analytic agility to be able to meet fluid and dynamic business needs in this space.
• Provide input on the development of enterprise data assets, information platforms or data spaces designed for exploring and understanding the data. Participate in supporting the data engineering environment, and execute monitoring, quality and validation processes to ensure data accuracy.
• Execute data exploration, data engineering, testing and implementation.
• Participate in and help execute the development of new concepts, proof of concept designs, and prototypes for business or research data solutions so that business users or predictive modelers may visually understand and explore a new feature or functionality before implementation to expose design assumptions and drive ideation.
• Mentor other team members in a business technical environment and promote an environment that supports innovation and process improvement.
  

Job Qualifications

Target Start date: Fall/Winter 2019

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, or equivalent. Master's or PhD in these fields is a plus.
• At least 3+ years of relevant experience
• Strong database development experience and knowledge (i.e. SQL, Oracle, DB2) with ability to learn new database technologies
• Intermediate programming skills (i.e. Python, R, Java) with ability to learn new technologies
• Computer Proficiency in Oracle, UNIX / Linux
• Ability to extract data from various data sources.
• Advanced analytic, data sourcing and data management skills
• Experience in designing and managing the nuisances of an array of data sources
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to learn and teach new technologies
• Intermediate written and verbal communication skills including the ability to effectively collaborate with multi-disciplinary groups and all organizational level
  

The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation, which includes a drug screen.

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As a Fortune 100 company and industry leader, we provide a competitive salary – but that’s just the beginning. Our Total Rewards package also offers benefits like tuition assistance, medical and dental insurance, as well as a robust pension and 401(k). Plus, you’ll have access to a wide variety of programs to help you balance your work and personal life -- including a generous paid time off policy.

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