Senior Data Engineer

Location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Job Posting End Date: November 16

When you join the team at Unum, you become part of an organization committed to helping you thrive.

Here, we work to provide the employee benefits and service solutions that enable employees at our client companies to thrive throughout life’s moments. And this starts with ensuring that every one of our team members enjoys opportunities to succeed both professionally and personally. To enable this, we provide:

Award-winning culture

Inclusion and diversity as a priority

Performance Based Incentive Plans

Competitive benefits package that includes: Health, Vision, Dental, Short & Long-Term Disability

Generous PTO (including paid time to volunteer!)

Up to 9.5% 401(k) employer contribution

Mental health support

Career advancement opportunities

Student loan repayment options

Tuition reimbursement

Flexible work environments

*All the benefits listed above are subject to the terms of their individual Plans.

And that’s just the beginning…

With 10,000 employees helping more than 39 million people worldwide, every role at Unum is meaningful and impacts the lives of our customers. Whether you’re directly supporting a growing family, or developing online tools to help navigate a difficult loss, customers are counting on the combined talents of our entire team. Help us help others, and join Team Unum today!

General Summary

This position is for an experienced Senior Data Engineer who will serve as a hands-on technical lead for data engineering across assigned Value Streams, providing technical leadership across at least two Value Streams, translating enterprise architecture standards, patterns, and governance guardrails into detailed, production-ready designs that engineering teams can successfully implement.

This is a 100% hands-on technical role. The Senior Data Engineer will actively design solutions, solve complex engineering challenges, make key technical decisions, review code and implementations, and guide engineers through delivery. The role will lead by doing, not simply coordinate the work.

The Senior Data Engineer will lead the design and delivery of complex data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, data warehouses, data marts, data models, and integration solutions using technologies including Snowflake, SQL, Python, and modern ETL/ELT tooling.

This individual will partner closely with architects, product owners, engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable, reliable, secure, and maintainable data solutions. They will also play an important role in Value Stream transformation by establishing engineering best practices, leading design and code reviews, mentoring engineers, and driving consistency and technical excellence across teams.

Job Specifications

Additional Locations: Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA, Portland, Maine, USA, Columbia, South Carolina, USA