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Manager, Data Engineering

Unum Group


Job Location:

Portland, TX - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 89400 - 183500
Posted: 23 August 2026 (10 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 20 November 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Posting End Date: September 03

When you join the team at Unum you become part of an organization committed to helping you thrive.

Here we work to provide the employee benefits and service solutions that enable employees at our client companies to thrive throughout lifes moments. And this starts with ensuring that every one of our team members enjoys opportunities to succeed both professionally and personally. To enable this we provide:

  • Award-winning culture

  • Inclusion and diversity as a priority

  • Performance Based Incentive Plans

  • Competitive benefits package that includes: Health Vision Dental Short & Long-Term Disability

  • Generous PTO (including paid time to volunteer!)

  • Up to 9.5% 401(k) employer contribution

  • Mental health support

  • Career advancement opportunities

  • Student loan repayment options

  • Tuition reimbursement

  • Flexible work environments

*All the benefits listed above are subject to the terms of their individual Plans.

And thats just the beginning

With 10000 employees helping more than 39 million people worldwide every role at Unum is meaningful and impacts the lives of our customers. Whether youre directly supporting a growing family or developing online tools to help navigate a difficult loss customers are counting on the combined talents of our entire team. Help us help others and join Team Unum today!

General Summary:

Our Finance Data Modernization team is seeking a Manager Data Engineering. The Manager Data Engineering leads a team responsible for designing and delivering scalable data pipelines warehouse solutions and governed data assets that support Finance analytics operational reporting and strategic business decision-making. This role partners closely with business and technology stakeholders to translate requirements into practical data solutions drive consistency across a large portfolio of initiatives and ensure smooth coordination from intake through implementation and operational support. The position provides technical leadership advances modern data engineering practices and champions the adoption of AI and agentic development processes to accelerate delivery while maintaining high standards for quality governance and business value. As a newly created leadership role this position is critical to building consistency scalability and operational excellence across the Data Engineering function.

We are looking for Candidates in Chattanooga TN or Portland ME.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

  • Lead execution of the teams data strategy providing direction on tools methodologies delivery practices and engineering standards that support consistent and scalable outcomes.
  • Oversee the planning estimation prioritization and on-time delivery of data engineering initiatives including setting clear expectations with business and technical stakeholders.
  • Guide the design development and implementation of data pipelines analytical databases and analytics workflows that support operational reporting Finance analytics and business performance objectives.
  • Partner with business areas to translate needs into technical plans identify required data sources communicate findings and develop practical implementation approaches aligned to corporate policies procedures controls and compliance requirements.
  • Advance the teams use of AI and agentic development practices to accelerate developer throughput improve delivery efficiency and establish appropriate standards for prompt engineering responsible usage and team upskilling.
  • Evaluate current and emerging data engineering analytics and AI methods to recommend continuous improvement opportunities and strengthen the teams technical capabilities.
  • Recruit train coach develop and retain staff including performance management and mentoring to build technical depth delivery discipline and effective use of modern data tools.
  • Perform other related duties as assigned.

Job Specifications

Required Qualifications

  • Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience in data engineering business intelligence data science or a closely related discipline with demonstrated ability to deliver scalable data and analytics solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelors degree in Information Technology Mathematics Statistics Computer Science Data Analytics or a related field preferred.
  • Prior leadership people management or technical team leadership experience preferred.

Technical Skills

  • Experience with Data Build Tool (DBT Core or Platform) to support data transformation modeling testing documentation and governed pipeline development.
  • Experience with analytics programming languages including SQL/Python for data extraction transformation analysis automation and pipeline development.
  • Experience with modern BI toolsets including Tableau Alteryx PowerBI or equivalent platforms to support analytics visualization workflow automation and business reporting needs.
  • Strong understanding of data profiling statistical analysis data modeling data architecture and related infrastructure concepts across on-premises and cloud-based environments.
  • Demonstrated ability to extract load integrate and leverage data across data warehouses transactional databases object stores APIs and other enterprise data environments.
  • Strong problem-solving programming prioritization and project management skills with the ability to manage ambiguity and make thoughtful recommendations.
  • Ability to interpret complex technical and analytical information decompose problems and translate findings into practical business solutions for stakeholders at multiple levels.
  • Excellent communication collaboration coaching and mentoring skills including the ability to develop technical talent and work effectively with business partners technical teams senior leaders and external contacts.

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Unum and Colonial Life are part of Unum Group a Fortune 500 company and leading provider of employee benefits to companies worldwide. Headquartered in Chattanooga TN with international offices in Ireland Poland and the UK Unum also has significant operations in Portland ME and Baton Rouge LA - plus over 35 US field offices. Colonial Life is headquartered in Columbia SC with over 40 field offices nationwide.

Unum is an equal opportunity employer considering all qualified applicants and employees for hiring placement and advancement without regard to a persons race color religion national origin age genetic information military status gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression disability or protected veteran status.

The base salary range for applicants for this position is listed below. Unless actual salary is indicated above in the job description actual pay will be based on skill geographical location and experience.

$89400.00-$183500.00

Additionally Unum offers a portfolio of benefits and rewards that are competitive and comprehensive including healthcare benefits (health vision dental) insurance benefits (short & long-term disability) performance-based incentive plans paid time off and a 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match up to 5% and an additional 4.5% contribution whether you contribute to the plan or not. All benefits are subject to the terms and conditions of individual Plans.

Company:

Unum

Required Experience:

Manager


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Unum provides comprehensive financial insurance products to industries of all sizes. Leader in disability insurance, life insurance, compliance and developing HR technology solutions for our clients.

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