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Company description

Spark Foundry is a global media agency that exists to bring HEAT – Higher Engagement, Affinity, and Transactions – to brands. By combining flawless media fundamentals with aggressive innovation, Spark inspires consumers to pay more attention, to care more about our clients’ brands, and to buy more products and services from them.

Balancing the nimble spirit of a startup with the powerhouse soul of Publicis Media, Spark Foundry delivers the best of both worlds to a client roster that spans some of the world’s best and most beloved brands and companies. We combine boutique-caliber insights and service with the buying clout and first-look access of a global leader, bringing the heat to challenger brands that want to act like giants, and to giant brands that want to act like challengers.

With a bottom-up culture that celebrates diversity and aims for all voices to be heard, Spark has become a magnet for the industry’s best talent, with one of the best retention rates in the industry. And by applying a whole-person approach to professional and personal development, Spark develops a workforce that is well prepared for today’s challenges, and also poised to create meaningful careers in the years to come.

Because we know that heat arises the intersection of complementary forces, our professionals come from myriad disciplines and backgrounds: data, analytics, and insights, content and creative production, communications and strategy, finance and marketing, and sociology, psychology, and other liberal arts disciplines.

Overview

This is a senior data engineer within our North American team. The data engineer will collaborate within a team of technologists to produce enterprise scale solutions for our clients’ needs. This position will be focused on building out a customer data hubs/profile databases and building data warehouse solutions.

Responsibilities

+ Deliver quality work on defined tasks with little oversight and direction.

+ Ensure all deliverables are of high quality throughout the project by adhering to coding standards and best practices and participating in code reviews.

+ Participate in integrated test sessions of components and subsystems on test and production servers.

+ Serve as technical resource during software development life cycle to solve business issues through the process of identifying and analyzing detailed requirements that translate into data integration and database system designs.

+ Solve business issues through the process of identifying and analyzing detailed requirements that translate business requirements into technical system designs.

+ Use information gained through prior experience, knowledge sharing with other Technology Associates, education and training to resolve issues and remove project barriers

+ Provide status updates to team members on a regular basis and clearly escalate issues and risks to project management as needed.

Qualifications

+ 5-8 years in a data engineering role with demonstrable experience with data integration and data warehouse projects.

+ Responsible for the maintenance, improvement, cleaning, and manipulation of data in the business’s operational and analytics databases.

+ Works with the business’s data analytics teams, data scientists, and software engineers in order to understand and aid in the implementation of database requirements, analyze performance, and troubleshoot any issues.

+ Defines and builds the data pipelines that will enable faster, better, data-informed decision-making within the business.

+ Experience designing and building data warehouses, customer profile databases, data marts, etc.

+ Experience with data modeling, warehouse design, and fact/dimension concepts.

+ Experience working with different query languages (i.e. T-SQL, PostgreSQL, PL-SQL).

+ Prefer some experience in at least one programming language (i.e. Python, Java, Scala, C#, etc.).

+ Prefer some experience in data integration projects and automation via ETL Tools (i.e. Talend, Informatica, SSIS, etc.)

+ Experience in Amazon Redshift is a plus.

+ Experience with marketing data (Google Double-Click, Site Analytics, Paid Search, etc.) is also a plus.

+ Understanding and experience working with cloud platform services: Redshift, Aurora, Data Factory, SQL DW, Azure Datawarehouse, Data Lake, BigQuery, etc.

+ Experience working with code repositories and continuous integration (i.e. Git, Jenkins, etc.)

+ Understanding of development and project methodologies.

+ Ability to work collaboratively in teams with other specialized individuals.

+ Able to work in a fast-paced, technical environment.

+ Good verbal and written communication skills.

Additional information

Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off. If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact [email protected] .

Compensation Range: $110,580- $173,995 annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 02/02/2026.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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