Associate Director, Data Engineering – Chicago / Hybrid – $140,000 + Benefits
Overview
My partner is at the forefront of the converging marketplace to help marketers connect with consumers in a measurable way. They have offices in 7 different locations and are present in over 100 countries with over 23,000 employees worldwide. They are a highly reputable organisation with an extended reach due to its network they are a digital-first, data-driven global company focused on delivering solutions to drive value and growth in a platform-powered world. My partner is now looking for an Associate Director, Data Engineering to join their successful Analytics team.
The Role:
The Associate Director, Data Engineering will be responsible for leading the Analytics development team in producing media reporting tools that solve key business needs with a focus on scale and automation. The successful candidate will lead a small team of developers who are responsible for a reporting platform that ensures clients’ digital investments are as efficient as possible across programmatic, search and social. The reporting suite draws from a big data platform that covers the digital investment footprint of their clients.
This role’s primary focus is to lead analytics development efforts while collaborating on development initiatives with Product Management, Solutions Enablement, agency, and client directly to generate insights that elevate client services and solve clients’ most pressing marketing needs. The role requires the ability to proactively identify opportunities to leverage data and technology to solve business problems as well as coordinate the Analytics team's efforts in producing well-designed BI features and reporting products.
Responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership:
- Keep abreast of industry trends around advanced analytics and business intelligence.
- Identify opportunities to leverage new technologies or methodologies to improve analytics capabilities.
- Uncover and understand the needs and challenges of our clients; address these through business analysis, recommendations, and ongoing consultation based on our unique information services and ability to assess markets, customers, competitors, and prospects.
- Coordinate with Global Solutions & Product team on the development of data solutions, including new product and feature roadmap input based on customer and market needs.
Team Leadership:
- Lead, mentor and inspire a team of data engineers and BI developers.
- Provide performance feedback and professional development opportunities to your direct and indirect reports in the team and ensure redundant support for tools/products that provide key business value.
- Establish and uphold Analytics team standards for statistical rigor and product quality.
Qualifications:
- At least 3 years in leading a team of 2 or more people to deliver solutions.
- 5+ years of experience with data visualization tool such as Tableau(preferred), Power BI, Qlik
- SQL expertise is required.
- At least 2 years of experience with big data tools and technologies like Databricks, Druid or the likes.
- 5-8 years of experience working on ETL processes, data modelling, data warehouse, extracting and manipulating large datasets.
- Hands-on experience with platforms like Airflow or similar orchestration tools
- Hands-on experience with Amazon Redshift or the equivalent
- Hands-on experience with Databricks or equivalent
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud
- Proficient knowledge of advertising technologies such as programmatic, display, search and social platforms, ad servers, RTB platforms, ad exchanges, website analytics systems, browsers, etc. and the utilization of resulting data sets.
- Own front-end development and experience of the proprietary media-based Business Intelligence tool.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to be a thought leader.
- Experience in digital marketing, programmatic, or analytics.
- Alteryx & Python experience is a plus.
What do we offer YOU?
- Comprehensive health and dental benefits
- 12 sick days and unlimited PTO - generous time off
- Flexible working hours, with respect to project needs
- Hybrid working arrangement – Flexibility.
- To work with some amazing brands and clients
- Continuous training and coaching
- Dynamic and international team
- Central office locations with great office space in Chicago
- High degree of freedom/independence
- Room to grow
Salary:
Up to 140,000$, plus benefits
How to apply?
If you are interested in the Associate Director, Data Engineering role and want to find out more, apply via the link at the bottom of this page or contact Digital Republic Talent by email ( r.manso@digitalrepublictalent.com ) or phone ( +1 737 2567409 ) to find out more about the role. For more job opportunities, please check our Job Vacancies page.
