Guidewire is searching for a Data Engineer who is hungry for a rare chance to transform insurance with the industry's leading cyber risk platform. The Cyence Risk Analytics team at Guidewire uses internet-scale data collection, adaptive machine learning, and insurance risk modeling capabilities to help insurers and other financial institutions model evolving risks, develop new products, and make better business decisions. Cyber is the #1 threat to US national security, above nuclear weapons, and our work here makes a meaningful impact in this space!

Guidewire is the AWS of insurance. As the market leader, 380 insurance companies run on our mission-critical platform. Every second, we support underwriters crafting policies and agents settling claims. We believe that making a significant decision should not require 100 in-house data scientists. Our products range from cyber risk quantification to potent ML sandboxes. We are a post-IPO company with the vision to revolutionize insurance. But, there is a lot to be done.

You have a passion for exploring complex problems and focusing on business impact. You're energized by the prospect of not just solving problems but also exploring and contributing to transformational improvements. You're hungry to apply your data engineering knowledge to make a meaningful impact on improving insurance customers' cybersecurity outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build cloud-based microservices to automate and scale raw data capture, often via third party APIs
• Use ETL methodologies to process, cleanse, store and verify data
• Champion best practices including unit testing, object-oriented design, and design patterns
• Transform specs into efficient, production-ready code via pair programming and peer review, learning from and mentoring your colleague of doers in a fast-paced Agile environment
• Develop robust REST APIs using Flask to deliver quality data

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry technical skills
• Passion for solving complex problems involving data
• 4-6+ years of professional development experience
• Willingness to learn new technologies, be agile and adaptable
• Excellent skills in Python and other programming languages, coupled with a deep understanding of object-oriented software design patterns
• Solid knowledge of databases and SQL, including tuning and schema design
• Experience in building microservices using Kubernetes and Docker within AWS
• Understanding of data flows, data architecture, ETL, and processing of structured and unstructured data

Bonus:

• Experience using SQLAlchemy, Pandas, and NumPy
• Experience with message queues / Publish Subscribe pattern. Airflow, Redis, and Celery a big plus
• Experience with CI/CD tools
• Experience with data lake technology such as S3 parquet
• Experience with data mining and machine learning
• Proficiency with databases and SQL, database administration, performance tuning, and schema design
• Familiarity with basic cyber security concepts

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