{"id":4242921,"url":"https://alion.io/job/lincolnfinancial-sr-associate-data-engineer-ai-data-products","title":"Sr. Associate Data Engineer, AI Data Products","company":{"id":2009901,"name":"Lincoln Financial","domain":"lincolnfinancial.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/lincolnfinancial","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SuccessFactors","truth_index":null},"role":"Data Science","role_family":"Data Science","seniority":"junior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Radnor, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":3,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"dbt","optional":false},{"name":"FastAPI","optional":false},{"name":"Git","optional":false},{"name":"Model Context Protocol","optional":false},{"name":"Pydantic","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon ECS","optional":true},{"name":"API Gateway","optional":true},{"name":"AWS Bedrock","optional":true},{"name":"AWS Bedrock AgentCore","optional":true},{"name":"AWS Lambda","optional":true},{"name":"Gmail","optional":true},{"name":"IAM","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-24T07:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-24","last_verified_at":"2026-11-15T17:15:16Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":22,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":22},"description":"Alternate Locations: Radnor, PA (Pennsylvania); Charlotte, NC (North Carolina); Fort Wayne, IN (Indiana); Greensboro, NC (North Carolina)\nWork Arrangement:\nHybrid : Employee will work 3 days a week in a Lincoln office\nRelocation assistance: is not available for this opportunity.\nRequisition #: 76677\nThe Role at a Glance\nAbout AIDA Data Strategy and Governance\nLincoln Financial's AI, Data and Analytics (AIDA) organization is building the capabilities required for an AI-enabled business. Within AIDA, Data Strategy & Governance turns priority insurance and retirement use cases into governed, reusable data products and services. We work backward from the decisions and actions AI agents and applications must support, then build the common meaning, quality, metadata, lineage, and secure access needed to trust the result. We deliver with AIDA's infrastructure, platform, engineering, MLOps, and AI-native platform teams, with governance built into the product.\nIn this role, you will build and operate the data and service components behind Lincoln's priority AI-ready data products. You will use Python and SQL to connect legacy sources, implement transformations and agent-facing interfaces, encode defined business rules, and make testing, lineage, and provenance part of the build. You will learn from senior engineers and business experts while taking increasing ownership of production work.\nWhat you'll be doing\nWork with product owners, data owners, stewards, and business experts to define the decisions the product must support, its authoritative sources, common terms, rules, and ownership.\nDesign the product slice, including models, keys, effective-date logic, exceptions, data contracts, API and Model Context Protocol contracts, and versioning.Build and operate pipelines, dbt models, FastAPI and Pydantic services, and agent-facing tools using SQL, Python, orchestration, and approved AWS services.\n\nEmbed quality, metadata, lineage, provenance, privacy, and security into the product, with tests and evaluations that prove source-to-response correctness and traceability.\nOwn deployment and operation through CI/CD, observability, incident response, root-cause fixes, backfills, and recovery procedures.\nReview code, coach Associate engineers, integrate partner contributions, and turn proven solutions into reusable team patterns.\nWhat we’re looking for\nMust Haves\nA bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience, plus typically 3 to 5 years of relevant experience or equivalent demonstrated capability.\nProduction experience with Python, SQL, FastAPI, Pydantic, asynchronous programming, packaging, and automated testing.\nHands-on experience developing, deploying, and operating Model Context Protocol servers or comparable agent-facing tool interfaces. \nExperience with AWS data services, orchestration, dbt or comparable transformation tooling, CI/CD, Git-based review, and production troubleshooting.\nProven ability to turn ambiguous business definitions and expert rules into durable models, contracts, controls, and tested logic, and to own a sensitive production capability with limited supervision.\nNice to Haves\nAWS Lake Formation, Glue, Athena, IAM, Lambda, ECS, API Gateway, Airflow or MWAA, and infrastructure as code.\nSemantic modeling, ontology, graph or vector data, hybrid retrieval, document ingestion, Amazon Bedrock, AgentCore, or agent evaluation. Insurance or financial-services workflows, or experience making contractor, consultant, or other-team deliverables supportable.\nApplication Deadline\nWhat’s it like to work here?\nAt Lincoln Financial, we love what we do. We make meaningful contributions each and every day to empower our customers to take charge of their lives. Working alongside dedicated and talented colleagues, we build fulfilling careers and stronger communities through a company that values our unique perspectives, insights and contributions and invests in programs that empower each of us to take charge of our own future.\nWhat’s in it for you:\nClearly defined career tracks and job levels, along with associated behaviors for each of Lincoln's core values and leadership attributes\n\nLeadership development and virtual training opportunities\n\nPTO/parental leave\n\nCompetitive 401K and employee benefits\n\nFree financial counseling, health coaching and employee assistance program\n\nTuition assistance program\n\nWork arrangements that work for you\n\nEffective productivity/technology tools and training\n\nThe pay range for this position is with anticipated pay for new hires between the minimum and midpoint of the range and could vary above and below the listed range as permitted by applicable law. Pay is based on non-discriminatory factors including but not limited to work experience, education, location, licensure requirements, proficiency and qualifications required for the role. The base pay is just one component of Lincoln’s total rewards package for employees. In addition, the role may be eligible for the Annual Incentive Program, which is discretionary and based on the performance of the company, business unit and individual. Other rewards may include long-term incentives, sales incentives and Lincoln’s standard benefits package.\nAbout The Company\nLincoln Financial (NYSE: LNC) helps people to confidently plan for their version of a successful future. We focus on identifying a clear path to financial security, with products including annuities, life insurance, group protection, and retirement plan services.\nWith our 120-year track record of expertise and integrity, millions of customers trust our solutions and service to help put their goals in reach.\nLincoln Financial Distributors, a broker-dealer, is the wholesale distribution organization of Lincoln Financial. Lincoln Financial is the marketing name for Lincoln Financial Corporation and its affiliates including The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company, Fort Wayne, IN, and Lincoln Life & Annuity Company of New York, Syracuse, NY. Lincoln Financial affiliates, their distributors, and their respective employees, representatives and/or insurance agents do not provide tax, accounting or legal advice.\nLincoln is committed to creating an inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.\nFollow us on Facebook, X, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube. For the latest company news, visit our newsroom.\nBe Aware of Fraudulent Recruiting Activities\nIf you are interested in a career at Lincoln, we encourage you to review our current openings and apply on our website. Lincoln values the privacy and security of every applicant and urges all applicants to diligently protect their sensitive personal information from scams targeting job seekers. These scams can take many forms including fake employment applications, bogus interviews and falsified offer letters.\nLincoln will not ask applicants to provide their social security numbers, date of birth, bank account information or other sensitive information in job applications. Additionally, our recruiters do not communicate with applicants through free e-mail accounts (Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail) or conduct interviews utilizing video chat rooms. We will never ask applicants to provide payment during the hiring process or extend an offer without conducting a phone, live video or in-person interview. Please contact Lincoln's fraud team at  if you encounter a recruiter or see a job opportunity that seems suspicious.\nAdditional Information\nThis position may be subject to Lincoln’s Political Contribution Policy. An offer of employment may be contingent upon disclosing to Lincoln the details of certain political contributions. Lincoln may decline to extend an offer or terminate employment for this role if it determines political contributions made could have an adverse impact on Lincoln’s current or future business interests, misrepresentations were made, or for failure to fully disclose applicable political contributions and or fundraising activities.\nAny unsolicited resumes or candidate profiles submitted through our web site or to personal e-mail accounts of employees of Lincoln Financial are considered property of Lincoln Financial and are not subject to payment of agency fees.\nLincoln Financial (\"Lincoln\" or \"the Company\") is an Equal Opportunity employer and, as such, is committed in policy and practice to recruit, hire, compensate, train and promote, in all job classifications, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin or disability. Opportunities throughout Lincoln are available to employees and applicants are evaluated on the basis of job qualifications. If you are a person with a disability that impedes your ability to express your interest for a position through our online application process, or require TTY/TDD assistance, contact us by calling (866) 922-6543.\nThis Employer Participates in E-Verify. See the E-Verify notices.\nEste Empleador Participa en E-Verify. 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