Data Engineer Client Data Operations

The Data Engineer will play a key role in building, maintaining, and optimizing the data infrastructure that supports client marketing campaigns, audience management, and business reporting. This hands-on position focuses on onboarding new client data, transforming complex and inconsistent source files into reliable production-ready datasets, and ensuring data pipelines operate efficiently. You will take ownership of production workflows, troubleshoot technical issues, and develop scalable ingestion processes using modern cloud technologies. Working closely with analytics, campaign, account, and technical teams, you will help ensure data accuracy, security, and seamless campaign delivery. This is an individual contributor role offering significant autonomy and the opportunity to improve operational processes within a growing, data-driven environment. The position is fully remote across the United States, with a preference for candidates located in the Dallas, Texas area.

• Several years of hands-on data engineering experience, ideally 4+ years, including building, maintaining, and operating production data pipelines.

• Strong proficiency in SQL and Python, with practical experience using Apache Spark or comparable large-scale data processing technologies.

• Experience with cloud-based data engineering environments, particularly Databricks and AWS or equivalent cloud platforms.

• Demonstrated ability to investigate unfamiliar, inconsistent, or poorly documented data sources and transform them into reliable production-ready feeds.

• Experience with data orchestration, workflow automation, monitoring, schema mapping, file-based integrations, and pipeline testing.

• Familiarity with version control systems such as Git, access management, operational documentation, and production support practices.

• Strong understanding of data quality principles, including record validation, deduplication, identity matching, reconciliation, and error detection.

• Experience handling personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI), with an understanding of privacy and security requirements in regulated environments.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with strong attention to detail and the ability to identify root causes rather than simply address symptoms.

• Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and take ownership of production issues in a fast-paced environment.

• Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain technical challenges and potential solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Sound professional judgment, particularly when handling sensitive information or situations requiring business-rule and privacy-related decisions.

Additional experience considered an advantage:

• Experience with direct mail data processing, digital marketing audience management, and campaign delivery workflows.

• Familiarity with CASS/NCOA, AccuZIP, AccuTrace, USPS tracking, audience deduplication, and suppression processes.

• Previous experience working with healthcare, Medicare, or health plan marketing data.

• Knowledge of SFTP, Amazon S3, Parquet, and client-facing reporting integrations.

• Experience working with digital marketing data sources and APIs.

• Residence in or around Dallas, Texas, is preferred but not required.