Join a high performing and rapidly growing team

Valen Analytics is looking for a Data Engineer to expand our growing data processing needs. We are looking for candidates with at least 2 years of experience, who demonstrate a curious analytical mind with ability to understand business objectives, ask insightful questions, and be detail oriented in implementation.

As a Data Engineer, you will work with customers, Valen team members, and 3rd party data providers, to develop, maintain, and enhance our data engineering capabilities in support of our data and predictive analytic offerings to the market.

Valen Analytics is a rapidly expanding advanced data and predictive analytics company headquartered in downtown Denver. Valen’s state-of-the-art analytics and predictive modeling products are built on Valen’s unique industry-wide consortium data platform, specifically designed for property and casualty insurance carriers. If you want to help build an industry-changing company and you thrive in a fast-paced environment where the only rule is to WOW customers, colleagues and shareholders, then we encourage you to submit your resume. This is not a job. It is an opportunity to advance your career by helping to build an innovative, growing and highly respected organization. The right candidate will be entrepreneurial, driven and passionate about being successful and absolutely committed to making Valen successful.

Responsibilities

This position will be part of an existing team whose primary responsibilities are to identify, acquire, validate, cleanse, and produce data and datasets to be used in advanced analytics and predictive modeling initiatives by our customers and internal teams. This is accomplished by combining data processing experience with software engineering concepts into solutions that are hosted in our cloud-based platform, InsureRight.

This position will leverage the following tools and platforms:

• Microsoft SQL Server
• PostgreSQL
• MongoDB

• Microsoft SSIS
• BIRST BI
• Valen InsureRight platform

This position will make sure of the following skills:

• Data extraction, transformation, and cleansing
• Data profiling and visualization
• Collaborating with data scientists, software engineers, production operations, subject matter experts and customers
• Fostering continuous delivery pipelines
• Managing and maintaining metadata

This position requires the ability to:

• Work in a fast-paced environment as part of a small team
• Collaborate with team members in the development and maintenance of our solutions
• Identify opportunities to automate data engineering tasks and workflow
• Fostering continuous delivery pipelines
• Managing and maintaining metadata

Education & Experience

• 2+ years Data Engineering experience with TSQL, python, map reduce or functional programming
• Bachelor’s degree in programming or related technical areas
• Developing and supporting an end user production system
• Reporting/data warehousing experience
• Insurance industry knowledge or experience with insurance data a plus

The Valen Team

Valen’s mission is to help our clients achieve their goals and solve problems by leveraging data to make more informed decisions. Members of the Valen team live our core values. If this matches the environment you are looking for, we look forward to hearing from you.

Guide Customer Success: We relentlessly pursue making our customers successful.
Live the Golden Rule: We treat our customers, employees, vendors and shareholders how we expect to be treated as customers, employees, vendors and shareholders…period.
Be Agile: Valen is a test and learn environment. We organize everything we do around our customer’s success to provide something of value quickly. We learn and then adapt. Then, we learn some more.
Have Fun: We have great attitudes and we have FUN. We do not take ourselves too seriously, we celebrate our successes and we enjoy our work. Most of all, we live passionately.
Embrace Simplicity: We endeavor to make EVERYTHING we provide our customers ridiculously easy.
Expect Ownership: At Valen we take responsibility for our actions and we build trusting relationships by making and meeting our commitments.