VP, Principal Data Engineer

By joining Chubb as Principal Data Engineer for our North America Finance & Actuarial and Corporate Data platforms, you'll set the engineering direction for a portfolio of strategic applications that directly underpin financial, actuarial, claims, regulatory, underwriting and executive decision-making across the enterprise. This is a technical leadership role: you'll define and drive engineering standards, architect and implement no-touch data pipelines and integrations, and transform the way our engineering squads deliver by embedding AI-assisted development, modern DevOps practices, and cloud-first design into everything we build. You'll influence and guide a team of data engineers across multiple squads, provide hands-on technical leadership on the most complex initiatives, and serve as the senior engineering voice in cross-functional conversations with architects, platform teams, and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities Include:

• Define and drive the engineering strategy across Finance, Actuarial, and Corporate Data platforms, establishing and enforcing standards, patterns, and best practices across all squads.
• Architect and implement no-touch, automated data pipelines and integrations that minimize manual intervention, reduce operational risk, and improve reliability at scale.
• Lead the adoption of AI-assisted development practices — including AI-augmented code generation, pipeline automation, anomaly detection, and intelligent data quality monitoring — to accelerate delivery and reduce toil.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership on high-complexity initiatives, including cloud migration (Azure Synapse / Databricks / Snowflake), ETL modernization, and replatforming efforts.
• Evaluate and recommend modern tooling, frameworks, and architectural patterns; build the business case and lead adoption across engineering squads.
• Partner with the data reliability engineering and enhancement squad leads to ensure engineering standards are embedded in day-to-day delivery from design through deployment and operations.
• Establish CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and deployment standards that enable consistent, high-quality releases across a variety of different data systems and products.
• Lead root cause analysis and resolution for the most complex data engineering issues, driving permanent fixes over tactical workarounds.
• Build, lead, and develop a team of approximately five direct-report senior data engineers and engineering leads across Finance, Actuarial, and Corporate Data squads; drive performance, engineering accountability, and a clear path for career growth.
• Define, govern, and enforce engineering standards and best practices across distributed and offshore engineering teams; hold ultimate accountability for the quality, consistency, and technical direction of engineering products delivered by those teams, regardless of reporting structure.
• Translate complex technical strategies into clear communications for executive stakeholders, including the Head of Data, North America, Head of Data Engineering, North America, and senior business leaders.
• Maintain and evolve technical documentation, architecture decision records, and engineering runbooks as living assets.
• Stay current on emerging data engineering technologies and bring relevant innovations into the team's delivery model.