Data Engineer (only W2) - Locals

Role: Data Engineer

Location: Irving, TX - Onsite

Pay Rate: $50-60/hour on W2, client will not consider C2C

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and operate scalable batch and real-time data pipelines in Databricks and related tooling to support audience, personalization, and measurement use cases.
• Build and maintain data models, feature/attribute pipelines, and marketing data feeds to decisioning systems and measurement platforms.
• Implement data-quality validation, monitoring, and change management so segments, flags, and attributes are accurate and trustworthy.
• Deliver governed customer attributes and audiences to activation platforms (e.g., Hightouch, Salesforce Marketing Cloud) with clear ownership and documentation.
• Partner with data science to productionize model features and with architecture to align on data contracts and identity resolution.
• Support privacy and compliance requirements across all data flows.
• Provide leadership-ready status, roadmap, and metrics reporting, and prepare decision memos that drive cross-team and leadership alignment.

Basic Qualifications:

• 3 years of experience in a data engineering role required.
• Strong SQL and proficiency in a programming language for data engineering (e.g., Python or Scala).
• Hands-on experience with Databricks/Spark, data lake/warehouse design, and pipeline orchestration.
• Experience with real-time/streaming data (e.g., Kafka) and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with reverse-ETL/activation and identity resolution (e.g., Hightouch, LiveRamp/UID2) preferred.
• Understanding of data modeling, data quality, governance, and change management.
• Familiarity with marketing/customer data concepts (C360, RFM, LTV, loyalty) and compliant handling of PII.