Data Engineer – Ai & Data Products

La posizione è aperta all’interno del team di Generali Italia.The Data Technologies, Analytics & BI Solutions team’s mandate is to design, build, and operate scalable Data, AI, and Cloud products and platform services, engineered for reliability, reuse, and long-term sustainability. The team mission is produce fully engineered, product-oriented platforms that enable measurable and repeatable business value at scale. The team owns the end-to-end engineering foundations required for industrialization: reference architectures, shared platforms, data governance enablers, AI engineering practices, reliability standards, security controls, performance optimization, and cost efficiency.Operating within a tech-inspired model, the team collaborates closely with other IT internal structures (such as Innovation & AI Forge) while maintaining a clear mandate: transforming validated initiatives into robust, operable, and economically sustainable products, with the clear objective of ensuring that what reaches production is scalable, maintainable, and aligned with the long-term digital engineering backbone required to support growth, adoption, and financial sustainability.The selected candidate will:* Design, build, and evolve scalable cloud-native data pipelines supporting analytics, AI use cases, data products, and digital applications.* Develop and optimize batch and streaming data ingestion frameworks, integrating structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data into modern data lakehouse architectures.* Implement data quality, observability, and data reliability frameworks, ensuring trust, lineage, and compliance by design.* Enable AI and ML workflows by: * Designing and maintaining feature stores * Automating data preprocessing pipelines * Managing high-quality training and inference datasets * Supporting GenAI and advanced AI use cases with optimized data access patterns* Build backend data services and APIs to support AI-powered and digital solutions in production environments.* Collaborate with AI Engineers and Data Scientists to industrialize models through MLOps best practices, CI/CD pipelines, and scalable deployment patterns.* Work closely with Platform Engineering and SRE teams to ensure reliable deployment, monitoring, scalability, and cost optimization of data and AI workloads.* Contribute to the evolution of the Cloud Data Platform architecture, optimizing storage, compute engines, and distributed processing frameworks.* Ensure security, privacy, and regulatory compliance, especially in handling sensitive financial data.* Provide technical guidance on emerging trends such as GenAI integration, real-time analytics, data mesh architectures, and scalable AI platforms.* Coordinate with internal and external partners in delivering complex data, AI, and digital initiatives.* 3+ years of experience in Data Engineering or Machine Learning Engineering.* Strong proficiency in Python (Pandas or similar, PySpark), SQL, or Scala for data manipulation and transformation.* Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud and data storage technologies (Redshift, DynamoDB, BigQuery, etc.).* Hands-on experience with distributed computing frameworks (Spark, Ray, etc.).* Solid understanding of data modeling, data contracts, and governance frameworks.* Experience with MLOps and AI lifecycle tools (e.G., MLflow, Kubeflow, Vertex AI, SageMaker).* Experience with MLOps and AI lifecycle tools (e.G., MLflow, Kubeflow, Vertex AI, SageMaker).* Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.**Nice to have**:* Master’s degree in Engineering, or a related field, or PhD in Computer Science.* Experience in the financial sector.* Familiarity with BI tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or Looker.* Understanding of regulatory requirements in financial data governance.Essere Partner di Vita è la nostra ambizione: ogni giorno vogliamo essere al fianco dei nostri clienti prendendoci cura delle loro vite e dei loro sogni. Questo per noi è Più di un Lavoro.Siamo parte di un importante Gruppo internazionale con oltre 82 mila persone in tutto il mondo e più di 68 milioni di clienti.Siamo tra i principali player globali del settore assicurativo: l’innovazione e la sostenibilità sono nel nostro DNA.Generali Italia è l’assicuratore più conosciuto in Italia con oltre €28 miliardi di premi totali, 15 mila dipendenti e una rete capillare di 40 mila distributori, oltre ai canali online e di bancassurance. A Generali Italia fanno capo Alleanza Assicurazioni, Das, Genertel e Genertellife, Generali Welion, Generali Jeniot e Leone Alato, oltre alle attività della Business Unit Cattolica.Il Gruppo Generali offre delle interessanti opportunità di arricchimento professionale in un contesto lavorativo caratterizzato da:Cultura aziendale solida e aperta, modi di lavorare innovativi, formazione e affiancamento a supporto di un inserimento efficaceAmbiente di lavoro inclusivo in cui ognuno si sente accolto, libero di esprimere al meglio la propria identità, le proprie idee e le proprie capacità: perché siamo Più che diverse, Persone UnicheQualità dei processi e iniziative per le nostre persone, che ci distinguono come Top Employer.