Overview
About Business Unit:
The Product team forms the crux of our powerful platforms and helps connect millions of customers worldwide with the brands that matter most to them. This team of innovative problem solvers develops and builds products that position Epsilon as a differentiator, encouraging an open and balanced marketplace built on respect for individuals, where every brand interaction holds value. Our full-cycle product engineering and data teams chart the future and set new benchmarks for our products, by using industry standard methodologies and sophisticated capabilities in data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Driven by a passion for delivering smart end-to-end solutions, this team plays a key role in Epsilon's success story.
Why we are looking for you:
- You have experience working as a Data Engineer with strong database fundamentals and ETL background.
- You have experience working in a Data warehouse environment and dealing with data volume in terabytes and above.
- You have experience working in relation data systems, preferably PostgreSQL and SparkSQL.
- You have excellent designing and coding skills and can mentor a junior engineer in the team.
- You have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- You are experienced and comfortable working with global clients
- You work well with teams and are able to work with multiple partners including clients, vendors and delivery teams.
- You are proficient with bug tracking and test management toolsets to support development processes such as CI/CD.
What you will enjoy in this role:
- As part of the Epsilon Technology practice, the pace of the work matches the fast-evolving demands in the industry. You will get to work on the latest tools and technology and deal with data of petabyte-scale.
- Work on homegrown frameworks on Spark and Airflow etc.
- Exposure to Digital Marketing Domain where Epsilon is a marker leader.
- Understand and work closely with consumer data across different segments that will eventually provide insights into consumer behaviours and patterns to design digital Ad strategies.
- As part of the dynamic team, you will have opportunities to innovate and put your recommendations forward.
- Using existing best practices and defining as per evolving industry standards.
- Opportunity to work with Business, System and Delivery to build a solid foundation on Digital Marketing Domain.
- The open and transparent environment that values innovation and efficiency
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Responsibilities
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Develop a deep understanding of the business context under which your team operates and present feature recommendations in an agile working environment.
- Lead, design and code solutions on and off database for ensuring application access to enable data-driven decision making for the company's multi-faceted ad serving operations.
- Working closely with Engineering resources across the globe to ensure enterprise data warehouse solutions and assets are actionable, accessible and evolving in lockstep with the needs of the ever-changing business model.
- This role requires deep expertise in spark and strong proficiency in ETL, SQL, and modern data engineering practices.
- Design, develop, and manage ETL/ELT pipelines in Databricks using PySpark/SparkSQL, integrating various data sources to support business operations
- Lead in the areas of solution design, code development, quality assurance, data modelling, business intelligence.
- Mentor Junior engineers in the team.
- Stay abreast of developments in the data world in terms of governance, quality and performance optimization.
- Able to have effective client meetings, understand deliverables, and drive successful outcomes.
Qualifications
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Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent degree is required.
- 5 - 8 years of data engineering experience with expertise using Apache Spark and Databases (preferably Databricks) in marketing technologies and data management, and technical understanding in these areas.
- Monitor and tune Databricks workloads to ensure high performance and scalability, adapting to business needs as required.
- Solid experience in Basic and Advanced SQL writing and tuning.
- Experience with Python
- Good understanding of CI/CD practices with experience in Git for version control and integration for spark data projects.
- Good understanding of Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity solutions
- Experience with scheduling applications with complex interdependencies, preferably Airflow
- Good experience in working with geographically and culturally diverse teams.
- Understanding of data management concepts in both traditional relational databases and big data lakehouse solutions such as Apache Hive, AWS Glue or Databricks.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to handle complex products.
- Good communication and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Ability to diagnose and troubleshoot problems quickly.
- Detail oriented, able to multi-task, prioritize and able to quickly change priorities.
- Good time management.
- Good to have knowledge of cloud platforms (cloud security) and familiarity with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tools.
Additional Information
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.
Our pillars aren't just words. They're how we show up every day.
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People centricity: We focus on employee well-being in an environment where colleagues truly care about each other.
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Collaboration: We work together, support one another, and collectively achieve goals.
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Growth: There are endless opportunities for growth through learning, development and career advancement.
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Innovation: We drive progress through cutting-edge solutions and forward-thinking approaches.
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Flexibility: We've created a balance between work and personal life, and we encourage adaptability to solve problems creatively.
Our values guide us to create value for our clients, our people and consumers.
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Act with integrity
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Work together to win together
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Innovate with purpose
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Respect all voices
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Empower with accountability
These pillars and values are our foundation-shaping our culture, guiding our decisions, and uniting us in common purpose.
Epsilon is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Epsilon is committed to promoting diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunities by using reasonable efforts to attract, recruit, engage and retain qualified individuals of all ethnicities and backgrounds, including, but not limited to, women, people of color, LGBTQ individuals, people with disabilities and any other underrepresented groups, traits or characteristics.
