[Remote] Staff Data Engineer - Technical Lead, Data Platform
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Dentsu is a global marketing and advertising company, and they are seeking a Staff Data Engineer to lead the evolution of a modern Snowflake-based data platform. This role involves technical leadership, solving complex data challenges, and mentoring engineers while partnering with various teams to deliver impactful solutions.
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and technical design decisions across the platform
- Build and optimize scalable data pipelines and models using Python and Snowflake
- Drive engineering best practices, reliability, and performance improvements
- Mentor engineers and elevate technical excellence across the team
- Partner with stakeholders to solve complex business and data challenges
- Help evaluate and apply AI tools and emerging technologies to improve engineering workflows
Skills
- 6+ years of experience building data platforms or software systems
- Strong expertise in Python, SQL, and Snowflake
- Experience designing scalable cloud-based solutions (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Proven ability to lead technical initiatives and influence architecture decisions
- Experience mentoring engineers and driving technical best practices
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Curiosity about AI and how it can enhance software development and data platforms
- Experience with Snowpark, Docker, or modern data application architectures
- Knowledge of data governance, privacy, or compliance practices
- Experience working with large-scale customer, marketing, or analytics data
Benefits
- Medical, vision, and dental insurance
- Life insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance
- 401k
- Flexible paid time off
- At least 15 paid holidays per year
- Paid sick and safe leave
- Paid parental leave
- Dentsu also complies with applicable state and local laws regarding employee leave benefits, including, but not limited to providing time off pursuant to the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act, in accordance with its plans and policies
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