Senior Data Engineer
$105k - $135k USD
What We Believe
Carmichael Lynch is an integrated creative agency built on the belief that the strongest brands are brave enough to define their true purpose. Since 1962, we’ve helped clients uncover their singular brand truth and turn it into work that can’t be ignored. It’s the hard work of simple—ideas strengthened through integration, where disciplines converge and diverge seamlessly around one compelling truth to cut through clutter and drive real business impact.
Our Hiring Philosophy
Carmichael Lynch is committed to creating a diverse, safe and welcoming workplace with opportunity for all. We strive for inclusion, equity and diversity in both our words and actions. BIPOC, women, marginalized communities, LGBTQIA+, veterans and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. To learn more, please visit: https://www.carmichaellynch.com/about/
What’s In It for You*
- Professional Development (performance reviews 2x annually, training opportunities related to your field of development, one-on-ones with managers, etc.)
- We offer competitive, equitable salaries (reviewed annually to ensure equity and competitiveness)
- A strong, vibrant, continually-evolving Diversity, Equity and Inclusion belief (in thought and action), encompassing our agency and our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs). Recognizing the voices that need to be heard.
- Competitive, company and employee sponsored benefits, including: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k, PTO (vacation/sick time) allowance, maternity leave, parental leave, paid company holidays, Family Building Benefit (adoption, surrogacy benefit), and much more.
*Please note that these benefits only apply to full time roles
Summary of the Job:
As a Senior Engineer, you’ll work across a dynamic client roster finding, extracting, loading, and transforming data foundational to analysis and marketing decisions. You’ll be responsible for collaboration with other key analytics positions to provide an end-to-end view of measurement and performance for clients.
This role is fast-paced, collaborative, and ever-evolving: the right place for someone who wants to make an impact quickly and help shape the way data powers marketing decisions.
What You’ll Do
- Build and maintain data pipelines
- Automate reporting pipelines with speed, accuracy, and scalability in mind.
- Demonstrate best practices in data engineering and account for considerations specific to media and site data in every step of the automation process.
- Write and optimize SQL views, Python/R scripts, and API connectors as needed.
- Continually optimize data cleaning and anomaly detection processes.
- Help manage and advance our GCP infrastructure, particularly with BigQuery and GCP integrations.
- Own data quality and governance
- Enforce naming conventions, dataset groupings, versioning, and access standards.
- Maintain rigorous QA practices to ensure clean, reliable, and consistent data.
- Continuously seek opportunities to improve processes and infrastructure.
- Problem solve relentlessly
- Proactively catch and investigate issues, finding root causes and going beyond surface solutions.
- Work with analysts to anticipate needs and ensure data is easy to find and use.
- Demonstrate situational awareness, knowing when to escalate, push or pull back, or execute.
- Communicate effectively with less technical stakeholders to address challenges and keep them updated on progress.
- Contribute to strategy
- Help shape the roadmap for our data architecture and processes.
- Identify opportunities to simplify, improve, and standardize workflows.
- Occasionally support client conversations with technical expertise.
You could be a good fit if:
- You take ownership of data quality and availability like it’s mission critical.
- You already are, or have the drive to become, an expert in media data.
- You’re a problem solver who doesn’t stop at “it’s broken.” You figure out why and how to fix it.
- You balance speed and accuracy, knowing both matter in a client-driven environment.
- You’re adaptable, resourceful, and curious. You’re able to figure things out with limited direction. Learning new things and finding creative solutions are some of your favorite parts of your job.
Requirements
- Education:
- A bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent work experience in related field such as Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics/Statistics, Marketing Analytics, etc.
- Skills and Experience:
- 4-8 years in data engineering, devops, data science, or similar. Experience in marketing or at an advertising agency preferred.
- Fluency in SQL and Python required. Additional competency in 1-2 other languages such as R, C/C++, C#, Java, Go, Rust, etc. preferred.
- Deep experience with GCP/GBQ or similar cloud platforms and data warehouses.
- Knowledge of ad tech and understanding of core media and site platforms (e.g., CM360, TTD, Google Ads, Google Analytics 4, Adobe analytics, etc.).
- Experience with dashboarding tools (e.g., Tableau, Looker, PowerBI, etc.) a plus.
- Competencies (characteristics and work style)
- Strong independent problem-solving skills.
- Adaptable to rapidly changing needs, situations, and priorities.
- Results-oriented with the ability to work well under pressure, effectively manage multiple projects simultaneously, and consistently meet deadlines.
- Able to communicate complex concepts in digestible ways to non-technical stakeholders.
The salary range for this position is listed below. Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on a variety of factors, including but not limited to budget, relevant experience, qualifications, and tenure in similar roles. Consideration may also be given to internal salary data for current or former employees in the same or similar positions.
Salary Range: $105,000 - 135,000 annually