Senior Data Engineer

Job title : Senior Data Engineer

Job Location : Lagos Deadline : July 18, 2025 Quick Recommended Links

Role Description

• We are a leading insurance organization developing next-generation line of business applications for General, Life and Health Insurance.
• As the Senior Data Engineer, you will design and maintain data pipelines (ETL/ELT) and models for a multi-tenant, cloud-native insurance platform.
• A central part of your role is ensuring that each tenant's data remains secure and logically partitioned, while enabling compliance with relevant regulations.

Key Responsibilities

• ETL/ELT Pipeline Development: Build from-scratch pipelines for ingesting insurance data (policies, claims, reinsurance info) into Postgres and MongoDB.
• Data Modeling & Partitioning: Design logical and physical models to accommodate multiple tenants, ensuring scalability and data isolation.
• Integration & APIs: Collaborate with backend developers to structure data flows for real-time dashboards and advanced analytics (AI/ML).
• Data Security & Compliance: Implement encryption, RBAC for data access, and auditing mechanisms aligned with NDPR and NIST guidelines.
• Performance Optimization: Continuously refine queries, indexes, and storage strategies for optimal response times across large datasets.

Job Dimensions Reporting Relationships:

Jobs that report to this position directly and indirectly

Direct Reports

• I.T Analyst ? Graduate Trainees

Indirect Reports

• Interns (NYSC Interns and Academic Interns)
• Contract Staff

Stakeholder Management:

• Key stakeholders that the position holder will need to liaise/work with to be successful in this role.

Internal

• I.T department
• Various functional heads within the business division
• Business & End Users across the entity

External

Qualifications & Work Experience

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Data Science, or related field.
• Strong knowledge of Azure data services and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, ARM templates) is beneficial.

Experience

• 5+ years of enterprise data engineering experience, ideally building multi-tenant or highly
• complex data solutions.
• Proficiency with Postgres, MongoDB, and scripting languages (Python, Node.js).

Other Skills & Competencies

• Ability to translate business logic into scalable data architectures.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment with CI/CD pipelines.
• Team player with excellent communication skills for on-site collaboration.
• Familiarity with IFRS 17 data structures or financial systems is a plus.
• Leadway Assurance Core Values Behaviours (ISCORE)
• Integrity Honesty, probity and uncompromised service consistently at all levels and with all stakeholders. Service A desire to help or meet the needs of others. The ability to respond to the changing needs of the customer while maintaining a high standard of quality

CustomerFocus

• Customer Focus is the willingness and ability to give priority to customers, delivering high quality services which meet their needs. Openness Objective, Honest and direct in communicating feelings and stance on any issue that would help advance a circumstance or issue

Respect for Individual

• The ability to hold each and every stakeholder in high esteem, and value
• their input in service/product development and delivery. Excellence To continuously seek to provide exceptional product and service to support
• aspiration for life and business with high impact results

Ideal Job competencies

• Good execution skills
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Skilled at collaborating on-site with cross-functional teams (Front-End, Backend, QA, AI/ML).
• Strong communication and organizational skills to handle multiple service components.

Behavioral Competencies

• Customer Focus Strong dedication to providing timely support and ensuring user satisfaction. Problem-Solving
• Mindset Creative in identifying solutions and improvements for system functionality and user workflows.
• Team Collaboration Cooperative attitude when working with Finance, IT colleagues, developers, and vendors to resolve issues
• Continuous Learning Willingness to update skills and knowledge as new D365 F&O features,