Sr. Associate Data Engineer, AI Data Products

Alternate Locations: Radnor, PA (Pennsylvania); Charlotte, NC (North Carolina); Fort Wayne, IN (Indiana); Greensboro, NC (North Carolina)     Work Arrangement: Hybrid : Employee will work 3 days a week in a Lincoln office   Relocation assistance:   is not available for this opportunity.   Requisition #:  76677   The Role at a Glance

About AIDA Data Strategy and Governance Lincoln Financial's AI, Data and Analytics (AIDA) organization is building the capabilities required for an AI-enabled business. Within AIDA, Data Strategy & Governance turns priority insurance and retirement use cases into governed, reusable data products and services. We work backward from the decisions and actions AI agents and applications must support, then build the common meaning, quality, metadata, lineage, and secure access needed to trust the result. We deliver with AIDA's infrastructure, platform, engineering, MLOps, and AI-native platform teams, with governance built into the product.   In this role, you will build and operate the data and service components behind Lincoln's priority AI-ready data products. You will use Python and SQL to connect legacy sources, implement transformations and agent-facing interfaces, encode defined business rules, and make testing, lineage, and provenance part of the build. You will learn from senior engineers and business experts while taking increasing ownership of production work. What you'll be doing

Work with product owners, data owners, stewards, and business experts to define the decisions the product must support, its authoritative sources, common terms, rules, and ownership. Design the product slice, including models, keys, effective-date logic, exceptions, data contracts, API and Model Context Protocol contracts, and versioning. Build and operate pipelines, dbt models, FastAPI and Pydantic services, and agent-facing tools using SQL, Python, orchestration, and approved AWS services. Embed quality, metadata, lineage, provenance, privacy, and security into the product, with tests and evaluations that prove source-to-response correctness and traceability. Own deployment and operation through CI/CD, observability, incident response, root-cause fixes, backfills, and recovery procedures. Review code, coach Associate engineers, integrate partner contributions, and turn proven solutions into reusable team patterns. What we’re looking for

Must Haves

A bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience, plus typically 3 to 5 years of relevant experience or equivalent demonstrated capability. Production experience with Python, SQL, FastAPI, Pydantic, asynchronous programming, packaging, and automated testing. Hands-on experience developing, deploying, and operating Model Context Protocol servers or comparable agent-facing tool interfaces.  Experience with AWS data services, orchestration, dbt or comparable transformation tooling, CI/CD, Git-based review, and production troubleshooting. Proven ability to turn ambiguous business definitions and expert rules into durable models, contracts, controls, and tested logic, and to own a sensitive production capability with limited supervision.

AWS Lake Formation, Glue, Athena, IAM, Lambda, ECS, API Gateway, Airflow or MWAA, and infrastructure as code. Semantic modeling, ontology, graph or vector data, hybrid retrieval, document ingestion, Amazon Bedrock, AgentCore, or agent evaluation. Insurance or financial-services workflows, or experience making contractor, consultant, or other-team deliverables supportable. Application Deadline

What’s it like to work here? At Lincoln Financial, we love what we do. We make meaningful contributions each and every day to empower our customers to take charge of their lives. Working alongside dedicated and talented colleagues, we build fulfilling careers and stronger communities through a company that values our unique perspectives, insights and contributions