Staff Data Engineer

About Business Unit:

The Automotive Practice at Epsilon is a rapidly growing team, driving growth for major players in the automotive industry - from Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to dealerships across North America. Part of a 1,600-member multinational team, the practice provides the automotive world’s largest service reminder platform, alongside agency services and digital media solutions. A leader in the automotive space, the team supports over 50% of auto dealerships in North America and maintains relationships with over 280 million customers. Home to innovation and ground breaking technology, our Auto team leads the game in developing outstanding software and solutions for hyper-personalized digital marketing.

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Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale data pipelines to support enterprise reporting and analytics across large, complex datasets.
• Lead architecture and implementation of modern data warehouse platforms (batch + real-time) to enable reliable, scalable reporting and BI use cases.
• Drive adoption of best practices in data engineering, coding standards, and cloud infrastructure.
• Partner with product, analytics, and engineering teams to deliver reliable data solutions .
• Mentor engineers, conduct design/code reviews, and raise the technical bar across the team.

Qualifications

• 8–13 years of experience in software/data engineering with proven track record of impact.
• Strong expertise in Big Data ecosystems (Spark, Hadoop, etc.).
• Proficiency in SQL, Python/Scala/Java for data processing.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) – EMR, Glue, S3, Lambda, etc.
• Experience with data modeling, warehousing, and distributed systems .
• Strong knowledge of enterprise DWH systems for reporting and analytics (e.g., schema design, query optimization, BI integration).
• Deep understanding of scalability, performance optimization, and fault tolerance .
• Strong problem-solving, debugging, and system design skills .

Good to Have:

• Experience with Redshift or other modern data warehouse platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery).
• Exposure to Greenplum or other MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) databases.
• Exposure to ML/AI data pipelines or advanced analytics platforms.
• Experience with CI/CD, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker in data environments.
• Knowledge of data governance, security, and compliance practices .

Epsilon is a global data, technology and services company that powers the marketing and advertising ecosystem. For decades, we’ve provided marketers from the world’s leading brands the data, technology and services they need to engage consumers with 1 View, 1 Vision and 1 Voice. 1 View of their universe of potential buyers. 1 Vision for engaging each individual. And 1 Voice to harmonize engagement across paid, owned and earned channels.

Epsilon’s comprehensive portfolio of capabilities across our suite of digital media, messaging and loyalty solutions bridge the divide between marketing and advertising technology. We process 400+ billion consumer actions each day using advanced AI and hold many patents of proprietary technology, including real-time modeling languages and consumer privacy advancements. Thanks to the work of every employee, Epsilon has been consistently recognized as industry-leading by Forrester, Adweek and the MRC. Epsilon is a global company with more than 9,000 employees around the world.

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