Sr. Data Engineer / Sales Engineering

WHY DEPT®?

We are pioneers at heart. What this means, is that we are always leaning forward, thinking of what we can create tomorrow that does not exist today. We were born digital and we are a new model of agency, with a deep skillset in tech and marketing. That’s why we hire curious, self-driven, talented people who never stop innovating.

Our culture is big enough to cope and small enough to care. Meaning, that with people across 20+ countries, we’re big enough to provide you with the best tools, global opportunities, and benefits that help you thrive. While acting small by investing in you, your growth, your team, and giving you the autonomy to solve our clients' problems, no matter where you are in the world. 

We are currently only hiring in specific location in the United States. Locations, office requirements, and salary bands are outlined below. Please note that we do not offer relocation at this time.

The Role:

We are looking for a well-rounded, client-savvy Data Engineer with strong experience in Customer Data Platforms (CDPs) and a passion for translating complex data ecosystems into meaningful, personalized customer experiences. This role blends deep technical skills with consultative strategy, pre-sales support, and cross-functional collaboration.

As part of a fast-growing team, you'll not only design and build data pipelines, but also shape solutions during client pitches, contribute to marketing technology roadmaps, and advise on scalable CDP implementations (e.g., Salesforce Data Cloud, Segment). If you're excited by the intersection of engineering and customer experience strategy, we'd love to talk.

What you’ll bring:

• Expertise across multiple technical and functional domains in order to identify and execute optimal technical solutions in a variety of internal/client situations.
• You understand design decisions and can articulate the tradeoffs made.
• You are aware of industry trends and how they affect our work and introduce new ideas into our current workflow.
• You offer advice and opinions for technical decisions that affect multiple clients/projects or the entire company.
• You can communicate context, recommendations, and rationale to relevant internal and/or external stakeholders to drive towards buy-in
• You demonstrate the ability to take a step back and question/ensure that work proposed/being done is maximizing client value delivery.
• You can synthesize input from various team members to drive to a solution.
• You can serve as a strategic advisor in client discussions and solution design, including during sales pitches, workshops, and discovery phases.
• You can collaborate with marketing, client engagement, and analytics teams to define personalization use cases and CDP-enabled strategies.
• You can design and implement data solutions that enable cross-channel personalization and customer journey orchestration.
• You can translate complex data architectures and CDP capabilities into business-focused presentations and proposals for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• You can act as a subject matter expert for integration with personlization tools like Salesforce Data Cloud, Segment, Adobe RT-CDP, or similar.

What we’re looking for:

• 5+ years of experience in several of the following:
• Pipeline management tools like Airflow or Luigi, and/or enterprise ETL tools like Informatica, SSIS or Datastage
• Devops tools like Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker
• Scripting languages like Python, Ruby
• Compiled languages like Java, Scala, C++
• Database Management Systems like BigQuery, Snowflake, PostgreSQL, mySQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, Redshift, Databricks
• 5+ years of discovery and assessment of a client’s portfolio, tools, and applications
• Proven experience working directly with clients, sales teams, or in pre-sales engineering roles
• Strong storytelling and communication skills — able to present data concepts clearly to marketers, sales leads, and executives
• 3+ years of professional software and consulting experience
• Ability to take a project from RFP/SOW/BRD to delivery: project management, requirements gathering, data architecture, workflow management, quality assurance, reporting and visualization, presentation
• 2+ years of hands-on work with CDPs or marketing data platforms (e.g., Salesforce Data Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Twilio Segment) 
• Experience developing data architectures that support customer identity resolution, audience segmentation, and activation
• Interest in mentoring junior colleagues on process, analysis, deliv