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Data Engineer - Piscataway, NJ

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Piscataway, NJ Full Time
POSTED ON 6/16/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 7/15/2026
Job Description

ATTENTION MILITARY AFFILIATED JOB SEEKERS - Our organization works with partner companies to source qualified talent for their open roles. The following position is available to Veterans, Transitioning Military, National Guard and Reserve Members, Military Spouses, Wounded Warriors, and their Caregivers. If you have the required skill set, education requirements, and experience, please click the submit button and follow the next steps. Unless specifically stated otherwise, this role is "On-Site" at the location detailed in the job post.

Colgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company operating in over 200 countries specializing in Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care, Skin Care, and Pet Nutrition. Our products are trusted in more households than any other brand in the world, making us a household name!

Join Colgate-Palmolive, a caring, innovative growth company reimagining a healthier future for people, their pets, and our planet. Guided by our core values—Caring, Inclusive, and Courageous—we foster a culture that inspires our people to achieve common goals. Together, let's build a brighter, healthier future for all.

At Colgate-Palmolive, Data Engineers focus on expanding and optimizing our data, data pipeline architecture, data flow, and collection for multi-functional teams. The Modern Data Engineer will be an experienced pipeline builder and data wrangler who enjoys optimizing data systems from the ground up to power the next generation of predictive and generative AI applications.

You will support our software developers, data analysts, and data scientists on data initiatives, ensuring efficient data delivery architecture is consistent throughout ongoing projects. You must be self-directed and comfortable supporting the dynamic data needs of multiple teams. You will be excited by the prospect of re-designing our company’s data architecture to support our next generation of products, specifically by building robust infrastructure for Large Language Models (LLMs) and preparing high-quality, "AI-ready" datasets. This team is a group of innovators and technologists that love to learn and collaborate!

Work visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

What you'll do

Pipeline Architecture: Build and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture that supports both traditional analytics and advanced AI/ML workloads.

AI-Ready Datasets: Assemble large, sophisticated data sets that meet functional and non-functional business requirements, ensuring data is cleaned, structured, and enriched with metadata for optimal use in model training and fine-tuning.

RAG & Generative AI Infrastructure: Design and engineer data pipelines to support Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, including text chunking, embedding generation, and vector database synchronization.

ETL/ELT Excellence: Build the infrastructure required for efficient extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources.

Process Optimization: Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements, including automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, and re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability.

Cross-Functional Tooling: Build data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimizing our product into an innovative industry leader.

Data Harmonization: Successfully harmonize, process, and extract value from large, disconnected datasets to uncover actionable insights.

Auto req ID

476417BR

Minimum Education Required

Bachelors

Job_Category

Engineering

Additional Qualifications/Responsibilities

Required Qualifications

Education: Bachelor’s degree required; Graduate degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems, or another quantitative field is a plus.

Experience: 2 years of experience in a Data Engineer role.

SQL Proficiency: Strong, hands-on SQL experience, including complex query authoring, performance tuning, and deep familiarity working with a variety of relational databases.

Data Pipelines: Proven track record of designing, building, and maintaining robust, scalable data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, and overarching data architectures.

Analytical Skills: Strong analytic skills related to working with both structured and unstructured datasets, with a proven ability to process text, image, or document data for AI ingestion.

Systems Management: Familiarity with building processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency, and workload management.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Cloud services such as GCP or AWS.

Experience with modern relational SQL, NoSQL, and Cloud Data Warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, PostgreSQL).

Familiarity with AI/LLM orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex) and Vector Databases (e.g., Pinecone, Milvus, Weaviate, pgvector).

Experience with Data Flow, Data Pipeline, and workflow management tools such as Cloud Composer or Airflow.

Experience with Visualization tools (Sigma, DOMO, etc)

Experience supporting and working effectively with multi-functional teams in a dynamic environment.

Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and drive improvements.

Compensation And Benefits

Salary Range $76,800.00 - $121,000.00 USD

Pay is determined based on experience, qualifications, and location. Salaried employees may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, profit-sharing, and long-term incentives for Executive-level roles.

City*

Piscataway

State*

New Jersey

Job Code

Operations_ Specialist

Affiliate Sponsor

Colgate-Palmolive

Salary Range

$75,000-$100,000

Salary : $75,000 - $100,000

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