Used to work at mature, later series insurtech startup.

Almost every junior level DE role I've seen has required the applicant to answer basic Python and SQL questions. Python has ranged from string manipulation, pulling data from a given API and transforming it, and finishing a given class implementation. Every SQL question I've seen have been pretty simple queries needing window functions.

A lot of my experience there was building out internal tools and writing Prefect jobs. One team member came from a devops role and a lot of his work was configuring things like AWS resources, Kafka, etc.

Just make a data engineering project that you can talk about during an interview that is clearly documented, diagrams help the interviewer a lot. Your technical assessments will probably be pretty simple, but know window functions definitely.

I got a lot of recognition and respect from the more business focused leaders for understanding and being able to talk about insurance business concepts. There is a lot to go into it though. You'll do great.