Senior Azure Data Engineer - State National

What part will you play? If you’re looking for a place where you can make a meaningful difference, you’ve found it.

The 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.

Join us and play your part in something special!

The Senior Azure Data Engineer creates the overall structure and workflow of a software solution and is responsible for leading and/or handling the development of one to multiple components. The Senior Azure Data Engineer will work with an Architect and Manager to build the appropriate solution to support the application. The Senior Azure Data Engineer works in an Agile team in a multi-technology environment and contributes to the development, maintenance, and enhancement of business applications. Collaborates with Business Analysts, key stakeholders, other IT professionals to define detailed customer requirements and system interfaces, assess available technology, and develop and present technologies. Recommends and supports technical coding standards and practices. Stays current on emerging technologies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain data pipelines using Azure Data Factory.
• Build and optimize data solutions using Azure SQL / SQL Server and related Azure data services.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines for data engineering workloads using Azure DevOps or similar tools.
• Perform data modeling to support analytics, reporting, and downstream consumption.
• Ensure data quality, performance, scalability, and reliability across pipelines.
• Collaborate with architects, analysts, and application teams to integrate data solutions.
• Support deployments, monitoring, troubleshooting, and production support activities.
• Follow enterprise security, governance, and compliance standards.
• Collaborate with Business Stakeholders, Business Analysts and other IT groups to help define and recommend software solutions that are scalable, maintainable and efficient to achieve/exceed the expectations of the business unit.

Required Skills:

• Strong hands-on experience with Azure Data Factory.
• Solid experience with SQL and relational databases (Azure SQL / SQL Server).
• Experience working in Microsoft Azure cloud environments.
• Hands-on experience building and deploying CI/CD pipelines for data workflows.
• Strong understanding of data modeling concepts (dimensional and relational).
• Experience with version control and Agile delivery practices.
• Excellent written and oral communication
• Strong organization/time management
• Strong analytical and problem solving
• Ability to grasp and apply new information quickly
• Ability to work/motivate team members as well as being able to work independently
• Shows flexibility and attention to details
• Strong desire for continuous improvement
• Ability to handle ever increasing responsibility and assignments with growing complexity
• Shows initiative on assignments, and professionally executes projects with little direction
• Ability to be creative and innovative
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Well-organized, disciplined work habits
• Ability to manage and complete multiple, concurrent tasks
• Availability to occasionally work late evening and weekends as needed.

Preferred Skills:

• Exposure to other Azure data services (Synapse, Databricks, Data Lake).
• Experience with stream data using Azure Event Hubs.
• Experience supporting analytics or reporting platforms and building dashboards using PowerBI.
• Familiarity with data governance and data quality frameworks.

Education/Experience:

• College degree preferred, high school diploma required.
• 3+ years using of experience and in using tools listed above

US Work Authorization required. Markel does not provide visa sponsorship for this position, now or in the future.  

Who we are:

Markel 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.

We’re all about people | We win together | We strive for better

We enjoy the everyday | We think further

What’s in it for you:

In 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. 

• We offer competitive benefit programs that help meet our diverse and changing environment as well as support our employees’ needs at all stages of life. 
• All 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. 
• We also offer a 401(k) with employer match contributions, an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, PTO, corporate holidays and floating holidays, parental leave.  
• Markel offers hybrid working schedules of 3 days in the office and 2 days remote.  

Are you ready to play your part?

Choose ‘Apply Now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.

The base salary offered for the successful candidate will be based on compensable factors such as job-relevant education, job-relevant experience, training, licensure, demonstrated competencies, geographic location, and other factors. 

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• All legitimate job postings with Markel will be posted on No other URL should be trusted for job Markel Group Careers.
• All legitimate communications with Markel recruiters will come from Markel.com email addresses.

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Markel is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of any protected characteristic. This includes race; color; sex; religion; creed; national origin or place of birth; ancestry; age; disability; affectional or sexual orientation; gender expression or identity; genetic information, sickle cell trait, or atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait; refusal to submit to genetic tests or make genetic test results available; medical condition; citizenship status; pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; marital status, civil union status, domestic partnership status, familial status, or family responsibilities; military or veteran status, including unfavorable discharge from military service; personal appearance, height, or weight; matriculation or political affiliation; expunged juvenile records; arrest and court records where prohibited by applicable law; status as a victim of domestic or sexual violence; public assistance status; order of protection status; status as a smoker or nonsmoker; membership or activity in local commissions; the use or nonuse of lawful products off employer premises during non-work hours; declining to attend meetings or participate in communications about religious or political matters; or any other classification protected by applicable law. 

Should you require any accommodation through the application process, please send an e-mail to the rarecruiting@markel.com.

No Agencies Please 

US Work Authorization

US Work Authorization required. Markel does not provide visa sponsorship for this position, now or in the future.