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Data Engineer
Location
Maryland
Posted
25 days ago
Salary
$40 - $48 / hour
Seniority
Mid Level
Job Description
Data Engineer
dentsu Austria
• Contribute to the design of cloud data warehouse architecture and the conformed customer data model • Build and maintain SQL transformations, data models, and ELT/data pipelines that ingest, rationalize, and enrich customer data • Leverage Merkle's common frameworks, reusable components, and AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery • Apply development standards, version control, and engineering best practices • Engineer customer features and assemble unified customer profiles for downstream CDP, CRM, analytics, and data science consumption • Perform development, unit and data-quality testing, and peer code review • Automate and orchestrate data pipelines, and manage code from development to production through source control and CI/CD • Use AI coding assistants and GenAI tooling responsibly to improve productivity, code quality, and feature development
Job Requirements
- 2–4+ years building data pipelines and SQL transformations on a major RDBMS and/or cloud data warehouse (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Amazon Redshift, Azure Synapse)
- Strong SQL and database programming skills, including query performance tuning and optimization
- Hands-on experience with ELT/ETL and data transformation tooling (e.g., dbt, Talend, Informatica, Matillion, SSIS)
- Strong understanding of relational and dimensional data modeling, and of conformed / customer (Customer 360) data models
- Proficiency with source control (Git) and branching workflows, plus CI/CD for automated dev-to-prod deployment
- Understanding of secure data exchange and file management (sFTP, PGP encryption) and of data privacy and governance practices
- Experience with data pipeline orchestration and automation (e.g., Apache Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, dbt Cloud, Azure Data Factory)
- Familiarity with software engineering methodologies (Agile/Scrum), issue tracking (Jira), and the full software development lifecycle
- Understanding of core cloud and IT concepts — compute, storage, networking, and backups
- Proficiency in Python for data engineering and scripting; comfort with Bash and command-line workflows
- Solid communication skills, both verbal and written
Benefits
- Temporary employees are eligible for paid holidays in accordance with dentsu policy
- Safe and sick time
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