Lead Data Engineer
Job Description:
Lead Data Engineer positions offered by CCI Corporate Services LLC (Atlanta, GA). Exercise responsibility over technology solutions to support the performance, tracking and measurement of paid media and SEM. Build and maintain environments (in cloud platforms and on-prem), processes, functionalities, and tools to improve all stages of AdTech solution development, including proof of concepts, prototypes, and production. Define data requirements in collaboration with digital, marketing, and external teams. Automate manual processes into repeatable capabilities. Create and maintain containers to deploy AdTech applications in cloud-based and on-prem platforms. Engineer media data and online data transfers to and from Snowflake and Cox's Enterprise Data Warehouse using SQL, HighTouch and custom Python scripts. Develop and follow data engineering best practices with considerations for high data availability, computational efficiency, cost, and quality. Provide hands-on technical leadership in data engineering design and implementations including data ingestion, data models, data structures, data storage, high-throughput data processing, data pipelines, and data monitoring at scale. Evaluate and make recommendations on new technologies, tools, and data. Manage timelines and milestones for solution implementations, launches, and QA. Oversee third party data onboarding efforts with technology platforms. Provide guidance/mentorship to keep the team up to date on new technologies, standards and practices. Work closely with external consultants to develop and/or modify existing Python scripts for data ETL. Manage all direct database match efforts including list pulls and match rates by partners. Set up and manage prospect and customer lists. Re-target logic set up and maintenance across media partners and integration into Cox's Lead Gen system. Present opportunities and communicate insights to cross-functional teams, including senior leadership. Exercise responsibility over daily maintenance and set up of segment logic, definition of offline-to-online capabilities with segments, and integration with other AdTech data stacks.
Minimum Requirements:
Requires a bachelor's or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Analytics, or related field and 6 years of experience in the position offered or 6 years of experience programming with SQL, Python, R, AWS, Snowflake, Oracle or Microsoft DB programming language. Also requires 6 years of experience: utilizing data management platforms, 3rd party data onboarding solutions, and direct database data management synchronizations; working in data warehousing, data engineering, databases, AdTech, APIs and ETL; working with cloud vendors; functionally managing outside technology, vendors, and agency partners; utilizing tag management systems; working with ICOMS; integrating APIs in the telecommunications space; and communicating insights to cross-functional teams including senior leadership. In lieu of a bachelor's degree and 6 years of experience as stated, the employer will accept a master's or foreign equivalent degree in the aforementioned fields and 4 years of experience as stated, or a Ph.D. or foreign equivalent degree in the aforementioned fields and 1 year of experience as stated. Employee reports to office in Atlanta, GA. Position may work from home, but must live within commuting distance of stated office.
Compensation includes a base salary of $134,227 - $181,400. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.
The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.
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