Data Engineer

Company Description:

Merkle is a leading data-driven, technology-enabled, global performance marketing agency that specializes in the delivery of unique, personalized customer experiences across platforms and devices. For more than 30 years, Fortune 1000 companies and leading nonprofit organizations have partnered with Merkle to maximize the value of their customer portfolios. The agency's heritage in data, technology, and analytics forms the foundation for its unmatched skills in understanding consumer insights that drive people-based marketing strategies. Its combined strengths in performance media, customer experience, customer relationship management, loyalty, and enterprise marketing technology drive improved marketing results and competitive advantage. With 9,600+ employees, Merkle is headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, with 50+ additional offices throughout the US, EMEA, and APAC. In 2016, the agency joined dentsu. For more information, contact Merkle at 1-877-9-Merkle or visitwww.merkleinc.com. We are champions for meaningful progress, and we strive to be a force for good-for our people, for our clients, for the industry and for our society. We keep our people at the center, creating space for growth, understanding, and learning so they can thrive. We embed diversity, in our mindset, in our solutions and in our teams to empower an inclusive, equitable and culturally fluent environment. Building this culture within our teams makes us better collaborators with each other and with our clients, driving better outcomes for all. Merkle is an agency of dentsu.

Job Description:

We are looking for a talented and enthusiastic Data Engineer with excellent communication skills and big data processing experience to join our engineering team. You will build and maintain world class products to enable Merkle's people-based marketing vision using cutting-edge cloud-based technologies. You will work with a team of passionate, experienced, nimble, and goal-oriented engineers that are solving complex problems and building data analysis features for our world class solutions. You will embrace change, and rapidly build, test, and scale solutions that drive incremental business value for our customers and partners. You will also directly interact with client solution teams, guide, and support them in their efforts.

Key Responsibilities:

• Directly interact and clearly communicate with client solution teams, support client onboarding and regular platform builds
• Coordinate with other teams as part of a larger data-sharing system
• Follow Agile methodologies to release iterative feature sets very rapidly
• Research and introduce new solutions and technologies to the projects and stakeholders
• Contribute to the full product development lifecycle using industry best practices: design, implement, unit test, participate in peer code reviews, and deliver product using continuous integration and delivery
• Participate in quality assurance and comprehensive testing
• Communicate clearly, understand business requirements, and write comprehensive and clear user and technical specifications
• Diagnose and resolve production issues, and participate in the on-call support rotation outside of normal business hours
• Contribute to a collaborative, positive, stimulating, and enjoyable environment for your development team

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience
• 3+ years software development experience
• Strong database fundamentals including SQL, relational and non-relational data models and schema designs, and understanding of database performance implications.
• Understanding big data concepts, data processing and data pipelines
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, distributed systems
• Good Unix command line skills and Bash scripting
• Experienced with an object-oriented programming language (Java or Python)
• Knowledge of software engineering and development methodologies, techniques, and tools, including Agile Development, Issue Tracking (like JIRA), code repositories (like Git, Bitbucket), Software Development Lifecycle and testing methodologies
• Experience building and deploying products using continuous integration principles
• Understanding of cloud-based technologies (AWS, GCP or Azure, AWS preferred)
• Good verbal and written communication abilities
• Exceptionally detail-oriented and have a sense of urgency

Desired Skills:

• Understanding of "Big Data" ETL methodologies and managing large scale data sets
• Experience with Snowflake data warehouse technology
• Experience with AWS technologies (such as S3, EC2, RDS, EMR, Lambda or SNS/SQS)
• Experience with data processing workflow systems (Airflow, Talend or Snowflake streams/tasks)
• Experience of creating reports, dashboards and visualizations (Tableau)
• Experience working with PII data is a plus

Additional Information:

The anticipated salary range for this position is $94,000 - 146,000. Salary is based on a wide range of factors that include relevant experience, knowledge, skills, other job-related qualifications, and geography. A range of medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and/or other benefits also are available. For more information regarding dentsu benefits, please visit https://dentsubenefitsplus.com/

Dentsu (the "Company") is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee of the Company, on the basis of age, sex, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage or citizenship, disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other legally-recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and/or certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done that will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing an undue hardship on the Company. Please contact [email protected] if you need assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process or to request or discuss an accommodation in connection with a job at the Company to which you are applying.

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About dentsu

Dentsu is the network designed for what's next, helping clients predict and plan for disruptive future opportunities in the sustainable economy. Taking a people-centered approach to business transformation, dentsu combines Japanese innovation with a diverse, global perspective to drive client growth and to shape society www.dentsu.com.

We are champions for meaningful progress and we strive to be a force for good-for our people, for our clients, for the industry and for our society. We keep our people at the center, creating space for growth, understanding and learning so they can thrive. We embed diversity, in our mindset, in our solutions and in our teams to empower an inclusive, equitable and culturally fluent environment. Building this culture within our teams makes us better collaborators with each other and with our clients, driving better outcomes for all.

Dentsu (the "Company") is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee of the Company, on the basis of age, sex, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage or citizenship, disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other legally-recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and/or certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done that will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing an undue hardship on the Company. Please contact your recruiter if you need assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process or to request or discuss an accommodation in connection with a job at the Company to which you are applying.