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Job Description: Azure Lead Data Engineer + Guidewire Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Azure Lead Data Engineer with Guidewire expertise to lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable data engineering solutions for insurance and enterprise data platforms. The ideal candidate will have robust hands-on experience with Azure Data Factory (ADF), Azure Data Lake, Snowflake, DBT, SQL, and cloud-based data integration, along with a solid understanding of Guidewire InsuranceSuite data and integrations.

The candidate will provide technical leadership, work closely with business and technology stakeholders, and ensure the delivery of reliable, high-performance, and governed data pipelines.

Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of scalable ETL/ELT data pipelines using Azure Data Factory, Snowflake, DBT, and other Azure data services.
- Design and manage data integration workflows from multiple source systems, including Guidewire applications and insurance data platforms, into Snowflake and Azure-based data environments.




- Analyze and understand Guidewire data models, business entities, policy, claims, billing, underwriting, and related insurance datasets.
- Develop efficient and optimized SQL queries for data extraction, transformation, validation, and reporting.
- Lead technical discussions with business stakeholders, Guidewire teams, architects, and data consumers to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to data engineering team members and review code, data models, and pipeline designs.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize data pipelines to ensure high performance, reliability, scalability, and availability.
- Implement and enforce data quality, governance, metadata, lineage, and documentation standards.
- Develop and maintain reusable data engineering frameworks and best practices.
- Collaborate with data architects, analysts, DevOps, QA, and clou

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