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The Kemper family of companies is one of the nation’s leading specialized insurers. With approximately $13 billion in assets, Kemper is improving the world of insurance by providing affordable and easy-to-use personalized solutions to individuals, families and businesses through its Auto, Personal Insurance, and Life brands. Kemper serves over 4.9 million policies, is represented by approximately 26,000 agents and brokers, and has approximately 8,800 associates dedicated to meeting the ever-changing needs of its customers.

Finance

Kemper

Affordable protection in an ever-changing world.

You need expertise in cloud architecture, data modeling, and data integration, along with strong SQL skills and experience with cloud platforms like AWS or Azure. Effective communication is essential.

You will design, implement, and manage cloud data architecture, ensuring data integrity and security while optimizing performance and scalability for business applications and analytics.

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   <i> 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.</i>
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    Kemper is seeking a Cloud Data Architect to join our team in Jacksonville or Birmingham. The Cloud Data Architect works as part of a distributed team and with Infrastructure, Enterprise Data Services and Application Development teams to coordinate the creation, enrichment, and movement of data throughout the enterprise. Your central responsibility as an Architect will be improving the consistency, timeliness, quality, security, and delivery of data as part of Kemper's Data Governance framework. In addition, the Architect must streamline data flows and optimize cost management in a hybrid cloud environment. Your duties may include assessing architectural models and supervising data migrations across IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and on premises systems, as well as data platform selection and, on-boarding of data management solutions that meet the technical and operational needs of the company.
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    To succeed in this role, you should know how to examine new and legacy requirements and define cost effective patterns to be implemented by other teams. You must then be able to represent required patterns during implementation projects. The ideal candidate will have proven experience in cloud (Snowflake, AWS and Azure) architectural analysis and management.
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   <br> Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
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       Working with Information &amp; Insights, Data Governance, Business Data Stewards, and Implementation teams to define standard and ad-hoc data products and data product sets.
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       Working with Enterprise Architecture, Security, and Implementation teams to define the transformation of data products throughout hybrid cloud environments assuring that both functional and non-functional requirements are addressed. This includes the ownership, frequency of movement, the source and destination of each step, how the data is transformed as it moves, and any aggregation or calculations.
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       Defining technical standards and guidelines. Assess and document when and how to use existing and newly architected producers and consumers, the technologies to be used for various purposes, and models of selected entities, objects and processes. The guidelines should encourage reuse of existing data products, as well as address issues of security, timeliness and quality.
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       Working with Data Governance and modeling teams to map data sources, including descriptions of the business meaning of the data, its uses, its quality, the applications that maintain it and the technologies in which it is stored. Documentation of a data source must describe the semantics of the data so that the occasional subtle differences in meaning are understood.
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       Defining integrative views of data to draw together data from across the enterprise. Some views will use data stores of extracted data and others will bring together data in near real time. Solutions must consider data currency, availability, response times and data volumes, etc.
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       Working with modeling and storage teams to define Conceptual, Logical and Physical data views limiting technical debt as data flows through transformations.
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       Investigating and leading participation in POCs of emerging technologies and practices.
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       Leveraging and evolving existing [core] data products and patterns.
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       Communicate and lead understanding of data architectural services across the enterprise.
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       Ensure a focus on data quality by working effectively with data and system stewards.
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    <br> Position Qualifications:
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       Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
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       A minimum of 3 years’ experience in a similar role.
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       Demonstrable knowledge of Secure DevOps and SDLC processes.
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       Must have AWS or Azure experience.
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       Familiarity of system concepts and tools within an enterprise architecture framework. Including Cataloging, MDM, RDM, Data Lakes, Storage Patterns, etc.
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       Excellent organizational and analytical abilities.
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       Outstanding problem solver.
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       Good written and verbal communication skills.
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   <i> Kemper is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, disability status or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We are committed to supporting diversity and equality across our organization and we work diligently to maintain a workplace free from </i><i>discrimination.</i>
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   <i><br> Kemper does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Kemper and Kemper will not be obligated to pay a placement fee.</i>
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  Location(s)
  Alpharetta GA, Birmingham AL, Jacksonville FL
 
 
   Details
 
 
  
    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.
  
 
 
 
  
    Kemper is seeking a Cloud Data Architect to join our team in Jacksonville or Birmingham. The Cloud Data Architect works as part of a distributed team and with Infrastructure, Enterprise Data Services and Application Development teams to coordinate the creation, enrichment, and movement of data throughout the enterprise. Your central responsibility as an Architect will be improving the consistency, timeliness, quality, security, and delivery of data as part of Kemper's Data Governance framework. In addition, the Architect must streamline data flows and optimize cost management in a hybrid cloud environment. Your duties may include assessing architectural models and supervising data migrations across IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and on premises systems, as well as data platform selection and, on-boarding of data management solutions that meet the technical and operational needs of the company.
  
 
 
  
    To succeed in this role, you should know how to examine new and legacy requirements and define cost effective patterns to be implemented by other teams. You must then be able to represent required patterns during implementation projects. The ideal candidate will have proven experience in cloud (Snowflake, AWS and Azure) architectural analysis and management.
  
 
 
 
  
    Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
  
 
 
  
   
    
     
       Working with Information & Insights, Data Governance, Business Data Stewards, and Implementation teams to define standard and ad-hoc data products and data product sets.
     
    
     
       Working with Enterprise Architecture, Security, and Implementation teams to define the transformation of data products throughout hybrid cloud environments assuring that both functional and non-functional requirements are addressed. This includes the ownership, frequency of movement, the source and destination of each step, how the data is transformed as it moves, and any aggregation or calculations.
     
    
     
       Defining technical standards and guidelines. Assess and document when and how to use existing and newly architected producers and consumers, the technologies to be used for various purposes, and models of selected entities, objects and processes. The guidelines should encourage reuse of existing data products, as well as address issues of security, timeliness and quality.
     
    
     
       Working with Data Governance and modeling teams to map data sources, including descriptions of the business meaning of the data, its uses, its quality, the applications that maintain it and the technologies in which it is stored. Documentation of a data source must describe the semantics of the data so that the occasional subtle differences in meaning are understood.
     
    
     
       Defining integrative views of data to draw together data from across the enterprise. Some views will use data stores of extracted data and others will bring together data in near real time. Solutions must consider data currency, availability, response times and data volumes, etc.
     
   
  
 
 
  
   
    
     
       Working with modeling and storage teams to define Conceptual, Logical and Physical data views limiting technical debt as data flows through transformations.
     
    
     
       Investigating and leading participation in POCs of emerging technologies and practices.
     
    
     
       Leveraging and evolving existing [core] data products and patterns.
     
    
     
       Communicate and lead understanding of data architectural services across the enterprise.
     
    
     
       Ensure a focus on data quality by working effectively with data and system stewards.
     
   
  
 
 
 
  
   
     Position Qualifications:
   
  
  
   
    
     
       Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
     
    
     
       A minimum of 3 years’ experience in a similar role.
     
    
     
       Demonstrable knowledge of Secure DevOps and SDLC processes.
     
   
  
 
 
  
   
    
     
       Must have AWS or Azure experience.
     
    
     
       Familiarity of system concepts and tools within an enterprise architecture framework. Including Cataloging, MDM, RDM, Data Lakes, Storage Patterns, etc.
     
    
     
       Excellent organizational and analytical abilities.
     
    
     
       Outstanding problem solver.
     
    
     
       Good written and verbal communication skills.
     
   
  
 
 
 
  
    Kemper is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, disability status or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We are committed to supporting diversity and equality across our organization and we work diligently to maintain a workplace free from discrimination.
  
 
 
 
  
    Kemper does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Kemper and Kemper will not be obligated to pay a placement fee.
  
 
 
  
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Cloud Data Architect - Kemper

Cloud Data Architect

You should have strong experience in business analysis, solution design, and architecture, along with excellent communication skills and a background in technology and project management.

You will design and implement business solutions, analyze system integrations, collaborate with stakeholders, optimize processes, and ensure alignment with organizational goals.

Dallas

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  Location(s)
 </div> Austin, Texas, Dallas, Texas, Phoenix, Arizona, Raleigh, North Carolina, Salt Lake City, Utah, Seattle, Washington, St. Louis, Missouri
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   Details
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  <i> 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.</i>
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   POSITION SUMMARY:
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   We are looking for an energetic professional with strong conceptualization and analysis skills, as well as an interest in future management roles. This role is for an individual that spans between business and technology – solving for business opportunities and challenges using data as a tool. This is an individual who gains a deep understanding of an area of the business, helps design logical data structures to represent it holistically, and communicates those structures to technology teams who implement. This person works closely with business leaders, analysts, application developers, data warehouse developers, and architects to drive data-centric solutions and data-centric components of broader solutions from idea to implementation. This creates focused data solutions, such as marts and reporting layers, for its area of the business. A successful candidate in this role is goal-oriented, contextually-aware, collaborative, and open minded. A strong ability to articulate concepts in ways that are understood by both business and technology resources, and an ability to foster effective communication between business and technology resources are required for success.
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   POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:
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  <li> Listen, understand, and internalize the business’ strategy and goals, becoming an individual who makes tactical decisions supporting their achievement</li>
  <li> Understand the data landscape as it relates to the aligned business area</li>
  <li> Maintain a working knowledge of the software and applications serving the aligned business area</li>
  <li> Maintain deep knowledge of the data lifecycle for the aligned business area and its relationship to the business process and software generators of data</li>
  <li> Collaborate with business leaders and functional resources to ideate the data-centric components of business solutions</li>
  <li> Define logical data structures required for those solutions in a way that meets defined and anticipated needs</li>
  <li> Drive toward holistic underlying data capture to ensure that data asset value is generated, and velocity of subsequent solutions accelerates</li>
  <li> Collaborate with technology teams, in data architecture, application development and data warehouse development, to ensure that the technology teams internalize the business’ needs and that technical solutions meet the business’ needs</li>
  <li> Create detailed requirements when required and work with others within the aligned business area to foster effective data-centric requirement creation</li>
  <li> Work as a subject matter expert for business data within projects ranging from small efforts to major transformations</li>
  <li> Work alongside analysts and data scientists to understand how the business needs to be analyzed and understood and translate those needs into underlying data design and requirements</li>
  <li> Create custom focused data assets from approved sources for use by analysts and data scientists in the aligned business area (data marts, assets underlying BI layers and reports)</li>
  <li> Identifies opportunities to obtain and leverage external data sources to solve business problems</li>
  <li> Act as a driver of effective collaboration between business and technology teams by taking the role of facilitator and collaborative interpreter</li>
  <li> Evaluates the results driven by data-centric solutions to ensure that investments in those solutions are yielding benefits</li>
 </ul>
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   POSITION QUALIFICATIONS:
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  <li> The successful candidate will likely have some combination of these qualifications, experiences, and skills.</li>
  <li> At least 5 years of experience in a similar position or in a role that performed many of the same functions – often has been an analyst, developer, data architect, or consultant delivering data-centric solutions, or has been the “person in the business who does data” regardless of formal role</li>
  <li> A degree in a technical or a business field with a focus on quantitative sciences, analytics, or solutioning (Engineering, Finance, Economics, Physics, Computer Science, Statistics, etc.)</li>
  <li> A combination of degrees in both technology and business fields is a plus</li>
  <li> Reasonable proficiency in data manipulation skills in SQL, Python, or equivalent.</li>
  <li> Experience using BI Tools such as Tableau, or equivalent</li>
  <li> Demonstrated understanding of logical data architectural concepts</li>
  <li> Understands business architecture concepts and is proficient in understanding business processes</li>
  <li> Demonstrated ability to ideate and define solutions when presented with a business problem or concept</li>
  <li> Effective at concise logical communication of ideas</li>
  <li> Communicates in the language used by technology teams</li>
  <li> Communicates in the language used by business teams</li>
  <li> Able to foster constructive cross-disciplinary debate to attain a solution</li>
  <li> Is comfortable speaking in front of audiences from executive level down</li>
  <li> Comfortable with ambiguity</li>
  <li> Possesses contextual awareness and can solve for both detailed needs and their contribution to the greater whole</li>
  <li> Is very detail-oriented, identifying upstream prerequisites and downstream dependencies in data-centric efforts</li>
  <li> Is assertive but open-minded</li>
  <li> Is a motivated self-starter</li>
  <li> Embraces change and is a change agent</li>
  <li> Is business outcome oriented</li>
  <li> Possesses an effective balance of idealism and practicality</li>
  <li> Understands when to solve and when to leverage existing solutions – knows when to think “outside of the box” and when what is “in the box” generates an effective result</li>
  <li> Sponsorship not accepted for this opportunity</li>
  <li> This position can be worked hybrid out of our Chicago office or remotely from a US-based home</li>
 </ul>
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   The range for this position is $87,400 to $150,200. When determining candidate offers, we consider experience, skills, education, certifications, and geographic location among other factors. This job is eligible for an annual discretionary bonus and Kemper benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, PTO, 401k, etc.)
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  <i> Kemper is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, disability status or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We are committed to supporting diversity and equality across our organization and we work diligently to maintain a workplace free from discrimination. Kemper is focused on expanding our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts to align with our vision, mission, and guiding principles. Kemper does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Kemper and Kemper will not be obligated to pay a placement fee.</i>
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  <i> Kemper will never request personal information, such as your social security number or banking information, via text or </i><i>email. Additionally,</i><i> Kemper does not use external messaging applications like WireApp or Skype to communicate with </i><i>candidates. If</i><i> you receive such a message, delete it.</i>
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   #LI-JO1
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  <br> #LI-Remote
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  Location(s)
  Austin, Texas, Dallas, Texas, Phoenix, Arizona, Raleigh, North Carolina, Salt Lake City, Utah, Seattle, Washington, St. Louis, Missouri
 
 
   Details
 
 
 
   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:
 
 
 
   We are looking for an energetic professional with strong conceptualization and analysis skills, as well as an interest in future management roles. This role is for an individual that spans between business and technology – solving for business opportunities and challenges using data as a tool. This is an individual who gains a deep understanding of an area of the business, helps design logical data structures to represent it holistically, and communicates those structures to technology teams who implement. This person works closely with business leaders, analysts, application developers, data warehouse developers, and architects to drive data-centric solutions and data-centric components of broader solutions from idea to implementation. This creates focused data solutions, such as marts and reporting layers, for its area of the business. A successful candidate in this role is goal-oriented, contextually-aware, collaborative, and open minded. A strong ability to articulate concepts in ways that are understood by both business and technology resources, and an ability to foster effective communication between business and technology resources are required for success.
 
 
 
   POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:
 
 
   Listen, understand, and internalize the business’ strategy and goals, becoming an individual who makes tactical decisions supporting their achievement
   Understand the data landscape as it relates to the aligned business area
   Maintain a working knowledge of the software and applications serving the aligned business area
   Maintain deep knowledge of the data lifecycle for the aligned business area and its relationship to the business process and software generators of data
   Collaborate with business leaders and functional resources to ideate the data-centric components of business solutions
   Define logical data structures required for those solutions in a way that meets defined and anticipated needs
   Drive toward holistic underlying data capture to ensure that data asset value is generated, and velocity of subsequent solutions accelerates
   Collaborate with technology teams, in data architecture, application development and data warehouse development, to ensure that the technology teams internalize the business’ needs and that technical solutions meet the business’ needs
   Create detailed requirements when required and work with others within the aligned business area to foster effective data-centric requirement creation
   Work as a subject matter expert for business data within projects ranging from small efforts to major transformations
   Work alongside analysts and data scientists to understand how the business needs to be analyzed and understood and translate those needs into underlying data design and requirements
   Create custom focused data assets from approved sources for use by analysts and data scientists in the aligned business area (data marts, assets underlying BI layers and reports)
   Identifies opportunities to obtain and leverage external data sources to solve business problems
   Act as a driver of effective collaboration between business and technology teams by taking the role of facilitator and collaborative interpreter
   Evaluates the results driven by data-centric solutions to ensure that investments in those solutions are yielding benefits
 
 
 
   POSITION QUALIFICATIONS:
 
 
   The successful candidate will likely have some combination of these qualifications, experiences, and skills.
   At least 5 years of experience in a similar position or in a role that performed many of the same functions – often has been an analyst, developer, data architect, or consultant delivering data-centric solutions, or has been the “person in the business who does data” regardless of formal role
   A degree in a technical or a business field with a focus on quantitative sciences, analytics, or solutioning (Engineering, Finance, Economics, Physics, Computer Science, Statistics, etc.)
   A combination of degrees in both technology and business fields is a plus
   Reasonable proficiency in data manipulation skills in SQL, Python, or equivalent.
   Experience using BI Tools such as Tableau, or equivalent
   Demonstrated understanding of logical data architectural concepts
   Understands business architecture concepts and is proficient in understanding business processes
   Demonstrated ability to ideate and define solutions when presented with a business problem or concept
   Effective at concise logical communication of ideas
   Communicates in the language used by technology teams
   Communicates in the language used by business teams
   Able to foster constructive cross-disciplinary debate to attain a solution
   Is comfortable speaking in front of audiences from executive level down
   Comfortable with ambiguity
   Possesses contextual awareness and can solve for both detailed needs and their contribution to the greater whole
   Is very detail-oriented, identifying upstream prerequisites and downstream dependencies in data-centric efforts
   Is assertive but open-minded
   Is a motivated self-starter
   Embraces change and is a change agent
   Is business outcome oriented
   Possesses an effective balance of idealism and practicality
   Understands when to solve and when to leverage existing solutions – knows when to think “outside of the box” and when what is “in the box” generates an effective result
   Sponsorship not accepted for this opportunity
   This position can be worked hybrid out of our Chicago office or remotely from a US-based home
 
 
 
   The range for this position is $87,400 to $150,200. When determining candidate offers, we consider experience, skills, education, certifications, and geographic location among other factors. This job is eligible for an annual discretionary bonus and Kemper benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, PTO, 401k, etc.)
 
 
 
   Kemper is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, disability status or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We are committed to supporting diversity and equality across our organization and we work diligently to maintain a workplace free from discrimination. Kemper is focused on expanding our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts to align with our vision, mission, and guiding principles. Kemper does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Kemper and Kemper will not be obligated to pay a placement fee.
 
 
 
   Kemper will never request personal information, such as your social security number or banking information, via text or email. Additionally, Kemper does not use external messaging applications like WireApp or Skype to communicate with candidates. If you receive such a message, delete it.
 
 
 
   #LI-JO1
 
 
   #LI-Remote
 



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