Lead Data Engineer
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Bridgewater, NJ · $120k–$180k a year · Posted November 3, 2026
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November 2026
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- Best cities for data and analytics jobs #1 New York (1,713 openings)
- Best cities for data and analytics pay after cost of living #1 Foster ($232k)
- Most requested AI skills in data and analytics jobs #1 Machine learning engineering (17.1%)
- AI tools named most often in data and analytics jobs #1 Databricks (7.6%)
- Employers with the most data and analytics jobs #1 Amazon (711 roles)
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Pay compared with the market
This listing pays about $150,000 a year. Across 34 open lead data engineer listings that state pay, the middle half runs $143,000 to $166,000 and the median is $155,000. That is inside the middle half of those listings, 3% below the median.
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How AI is used in this kind of work
Among database architects, AI is already used for a large share of the tasks. Measured exposure for database architects: 58% (high).
Share of this job’s tasks that AI is already used for at work, from real usage. It is not a forecast of job loss, and a low number means no use seen yet. Source: Anthropic Economic Index.
About the job
...Value Proposition:The position sits within the newly consolidated Data and Analytics (D&A) organization supporting the U.S. Business... ...data science, from data infrastructure, data governance, data engineering, data modeling, data analysis to business intelligence, data science...