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If you’re looking for a place where you can make a meaningful difference, you’ve found it.\nThe work we do at Markel gives people the confidence to move forward and seize opportunities, and you’ll find your fit amongst our global community of optimists and problem-solvers. We’re always pushing each other to go further because we believe that when we realize our potential, we can help others reach theirs.\n\nJoin us and play your part in something special!\n\nThis position will be responsible for managing a team of IT employees possessing varied experience levels. This position participates in the planning and managing of activities within the assigned business unit/area.Responsibilities\nLeads a team of data engineers and contributes to strategic, operational, and divisional goals as a member of the management team.\nTracks team delivery, provides project update/information, and informs management of any deviations which may impact the delivery.\nPlans and conducts performance appraisals for employees, and administers disciplinary action.\nInitiates discussions around raises, bonuses, and promotions within team.\nInvolved with recruitment, development, retention, and organization of all managed staff in accordance with corporate budgetary and policy requirements, including offshore resources.\nDefines team operating standards and ensures essential procedures are followed at all times.\nTrains, coaches, and mentors employees on the team.\nIdentify and measure team health indicators.\nEnsure proper team focus on priorities, milestones, and deliverables.\nResponsible for tracking and reporting key metrics and status updates to senior management.\nRepresent the Data Engineering team(s) to stakeholders, customers, and internal delivery teams.\nLead the design, build, and delivery of data platform components using Databricks and a medallion architecture across Raw, Refined, and Presentation layers.\nManage one or more teams as assigned, balancing workload and priorities across teams.\nOccasionally required to work late evenings and weekends as needed.\nWork Experience\nHands-on experience with Databricks\n8 to 10 years of software development, infrastructure, or project delivery experience, including data engineering or data platform work.\nExperience with agile software development methodologies.\nExperience implementing or working within a medallion architecture (Raw, Refined, Presentation layers).\nPractical experience applying AI or machine learning technologies within a data engineering or data platform context.\nKnowledge of ETL tools and best practices in design.\nExperience managing multiple teams strongly preferred.\nProviding coaching and mentoring to team members.\nCapable of balancing immediate operational needs while making progress towards long-term engineering goals.\nInsurance industry background nice to have.\nSkillset\nStrong knowledge of technologies and methodologies related to assigned business unit/area.\nSkilled in organizing resources and establishing priorities.\nStrong analytical and problem solving skills.\nAbility to successfully gather technical information and transform into clear and concise communication material.\nStrong desire for continuous improvement.\nAbility to effectively lead, coach, and develop staff across multiple teams.\nExcellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills. Ability to interact with all levels of Markel's internal and external business partners.\nAbility to manage and prioritize multiple projects, attention to detail, sensitivity to time management and deadlines.\nDisplays confidence when working with and convincing all levels of employees.\nAbility to lead effectively in a busy, fast-paced environment with shifting priorities.\nWorking knowledge of AI and machine learning tools and techniques, and the ability to apply them to data engineering and data platform problems.\nEducation\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, other related field, or equivalent work experience, including military experience.\nUS Work Authorization\nUS Work Authorization required. Markel does not provide visa sponsorship for this position, now or in the future.\nPay information:\nThe salary range for this position is $108,800 - $226,800. The posted salary range reflects the lowest and highest base salary applicable to this role across our U.S. locations. Individual offers are determined based on geographic location, experience, qualifications, internal equity, and other job-related factors. As a result, the salary offered for a specific location will fall within a narrower range than the overall range displayed in this posting. This position may also be eligible to participate in the Company's annual incentive plan.Who we are:\nMarkel Group (NYSE - MKL) a fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory and investment operations around the world.\nWe’reall about people | We win together | We strive for better\nWe enjoy the everyday | We think further\nWhat’sin it for you:\nIn keeping with the values of the Markel Style, we strive to support our employees in living their lives to the fullest at home and at work.\nWe offer competitive benefit programs that help meet our diverse and changing environment as well as support our employees’ needs at all stages of life.\n\nAll full-time employees have the option to select from multiple health, dental and vision insurance plan options and optional life, disability, and AD&D insurance.\n\nWe also offer a 401(k) with employer match contributions, an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, PTO, corporate holidays and floating holidays, parental leave.\n\nAre you ready to play your part?\nChoose ‘Apply Now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.\nCaution: Employment scams\nMarkel is aware of employment-related scamswhere scammers will impersonate recruiters by sending fake job offers to those actively seeking employment in order tosteal personal information. Frequently, the scammer will reach out to individuals who have posted their resume online. These \"job offers\" include convincing offer letters and frequentlyask for confidential personal information. Therefore, for your safety, please note that:\nAll legitimate job postings with Markel will be posted on Markel Careers. No other URL should be trusted for job postings.\n\nAll legitimate communications with Markel recruiters will come from Markel.com email addresses.\n\nWe would also ask that you please report any job employment scams related to Markel to .\nMarkel is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of any protected characteristic. 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