Senior Data Operations Specialist

Partnering with Aquent, we're collaborating with an innovative agency client at the forefront of leveraging data to drive strategic success. This pivotal role offers an exciting opportunity to directly shape how internal strategy teams harness the power of data, ensuring they have access to high-quality, reliable information. Your expertise will be instrumental in delivering accurate and impactful insights and recommendations to clients, maintaining data integrity, and building robust data pipelines. This enables the company to make data-driven decisions with confidence and efficiency, directly contributing to the strategic success of the organization.

About Our Client

Our client, an innovative agency partnered with Aquent, is dedicated to empowering its internal strategy teams through exceptional data infrastructure. They are committed to providing reliable, high-quality information to drive impactful insights and recommendations for their clients. By fostering a data-driven environment, they enable confident and efficient decision-making, ensuring their position as a leader in their field.

The Opportunity

As a key contributor, you will be at the heart of ensuring data quality and accessibility, directly enabling the strategic success of the organization. This role is vital for maintaining data integrity and providing a reliable data infrastructure, allowing internal teams to deliver accurate insights and recommendations to clients. You will play a crucial part in building and maintaining the foundational data systems that power critical business decisions and client-facing strategies, making a direct impact on the company's ability to innovate and lead.

What You'll Do

• Set up and connect data integrations from various sources.
• Create and manage data pipelines to ensure efficient data flow.
• Cleanse and manipulate raw data to normalize and standardize it for analysis.
• Push processed data into various data storage environments, including spreadsheet applications and cloud-based data warehouses.
• Collaborate closely with internal data and strategy teams to understand and fulfill data requirements.
• Ensure optimal data quality and accessibility for internal analysis.
• Assist with setting up triggers, events, and tags in marketing and analytics tagging platforms.

What You'll Bring

Required Qualifications

• Advanced proficiency in SQL and Python (including Pandas, API integration, and ETL development).
• Demonstrated experience consuming REST APIs, encompassing OAuth authentication, pagination, and JSON parsing.
• Proven experience building automated data pipelines using Python, cloud automation tools, or CI/CD platforms.
• Familiarity with APIs of leading CRM, marketing, and analytics platforms.
• Experience connecting diverse data sources to leading Business Intelligence (BI) platforms.
• Proficiency in Git version control and collaborative development practices.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Familiarity with data transformation tools like dbt.
• Knowledge of workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow or Prefect.
• Experience with GraphQL.
• Exposure to specialized marketing technology platforms.

About Skill:

Skill connects the best professional, IT, engineering, financial and administrative talent with the world's biggest brands. Our eligible talent get access to benefits such as health benefit contributions, retirement plans with match and flexible spending accounts.

Skill is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We're about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.