Data Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Maryland.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and manage cloud-based software and data solutions that support dentsu's marketing offerings.

• Work alongside product and client solution teams to convert business requirements into application logic, services, identity functions, and data products.

• Utilize Agile methodologies and AI coding tools to produce secure, tested, reviewed, and thoroughly documented software and data capabilities.

• Convert requirements into technical designs, testable modules, and reusable components.

• Investigate business domains, data sources, system relationships, and attributes; enhance data quality and lineage.

• Implement software development lifecycle practices, including solution design, implementation, automated testing, code review, observability, and CI/CD.

• Create and implement business logic, APIs, services, integrations, and data-processing components.

• Develop unit, integration, and data-quality testing.

• Optimize algorithms and application logic for identity matching, decision-making, and validation.

• Enhance application performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency; troubleshoot defects across code, services, data stores, and distributed workflows.

• Address production issues and communicate status, risks, and timelines to stakeholders.

• Collect requirements and generate technical documentation.

• Engage in knowledge sharing, code reviews, and Agile meetings.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a similar field.

• Over 2 years of progressively responsible experience in software or data engineering roles.

• Strong SQL skills and a good understanding of both relational and non-relational data modeling.

• Proficient in at least one programming language, with a preference for Python.

• Experience with cloud applications, databases, and data warehouses, preferably Snowflake.

• Practical knowledge of modern AI coding assistants and agent-based tools, applied securely with proper validation and review.

• Familiarity with Agile delivery processes, Git-based source control, CI/CD, automated testing, and issue tracking software like JIRA.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication abilities.

• Understanding of cloud platforms and cloud-native security and operations, with AWS preferred; GCP or Azure are acceptable.

• Knowledge of workflow orchestration or event-driven processing; experience with Airflow and Snowflake streams/tasks is a plus.

• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, software design, debugging, and fundamentals of distributed systems.

• Basic skills in Unix/Linux command line operations.

• Experience handling PII data is advantageous.

• Flexibility to adapt to company and client needs, including potential office attendance.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, vision, and dental insurance.

• Life insurance.

• Short-term and long-term disability insurance.

• 401k plan.

• Flexible paid time off.

• A minimum of 15 paid holidays each year.

• Paid sick and safe leave.

• Paid parental leave.

• Relevant state and local employee leave benefits.