Principal Data Engineer

Location(s)

Chicago, Illinois, Downers Grove, Illinois, Remote-AL, Remote-CT, Remote-FL, Remote-GA, Remote-OH, Remote-PADetails

*Kemper is one of the nation’s leading specialized insurers. Our success is a direct reflection of the talented and diverse people who make a positive difference in the lives of our customers every day. We believe a high-performing culture, valuable opportunities for personal development and professional challenge, and a healthy work-life balance can be highly motivating and productive. Kemper’s products and services are making a real difference to our customers, who have unique and evolving needs. By joining our team, you are helping to provide an experience to our stakeholders that delivers on our promises.*

Position Summary

The Principal Data Engineer serves as a senior technical leader responsible for architecting, developing, and governing enterprise-scale data platforms, pipelines, and analytics solutions. This role provides hands-on technical leadership across data engineering initiatives, cloud modernization efforts, real-time integrations, and enterprise data strategy.

The ideal candidate combines deep expertise in modern data engineering technologies with strong leadership capabilities to guide engineering teams, establish best practices, and deliver scalable, secure, and high-performing data solutions that support analytics, reporting, AI/ML, and operational business functions.

Position Responsibilities

Enterprise Data Architecture & Engineering

• Design, development, and optimize enterprise-scale data pipelines and integration frameworks supporting analytics, reporting, operational, and AI/ML workloads.
• Architect scalable data lake, warehouse, and real-time streaming solutions using cloud-native technologies.
• Design and maintain logical and physical data models aligned with enterprise architecture standards and normalization best practices.
• Build robust ingestion, transformat...