VirtuHire
Marketing Data Engineer - Ad Tech (US hours)
Remote role where the employee must remain based in a particular country.
South Africa only
Employer listed it 4 weeks ago · Added yesterday
Been open since 4 weeks ago, still being checked, but it has been live a while.
Salary
Not stated
Location
South Africa only
Timezone
Not stated
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Mid
Category
Data
This employer didn't state pay. Jobs like this usually pay around $110k–$200k a year, a typical range taken from 226 mid-level data roles on Nomaders that do state pay. It's a guide, not an offer.
Remote flexibility
Work from home
This is a remote role, but the employee must be based in South Africa. It is work from home rather than work from anywhere.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "South Africa"
What Nomaders makes of it
- Residency required in South Africa
- Payroll and tax are likely handled in that country only
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About the role
Our client in the US is looking for a Marketing Data Engineer to own the data pipelines and data-quality foundation that power their dashboards, pacing outputs and recurring reporting.
Core responsibilities
Build and maintain API/ETL ingestion from DSPs, ad servers and other advertising platforms.
Normalize campaign data and maintain metric definitions used across dashboards and reporting.
Manage cloud-warehouse structures and client data deliveries where required.
Reconcile pipeline output against raw platform exports and investigate material variance.
Build automated data-quality checks, alerting and monitoring for pipeline/dashboard health.
Manage service-account/API credential workflows in the clients owned environments.
Support platform migrations and rebuild data integrations without reporting discontinuity.
Partner with Dashboard Developer and Programmatic Lead on definitions, mapping and release validation.
Requirements
Must-have profile
4+ years in data engineering/analytics engineering with production ETL/API responsibility.
Strong SQL plus at least one production programming/scripting language such as Python.
Experience with cloud data warehouses such as BigQuery, Snowflake or equivalent.
Experience reconciling data across multiple source systems and designing data-quality controls.
Ability to own production pipelines, troubleshoot failures and document data definitions clearly.
Preferred experience
Direct experience with advertising/marketing platform APIs and campaign data.
Experience with DV360 or other DSP data models, ad-server data or marketing attribution feeds.
Experience with scheduled reporting/alerting and secure client data delivery.
What success looks like
Reporting data is reliable and reconciles within agreed tolerance.
Pipeline failures or data lag are detected before clients notice.
Requirements
- ·Must-have profile
- ·4+ years in data engineering/analytics engineering with production ETL/API responsibility.
- ·Strong SQL plus at least one production programming/scripting language such as Python.
- ·Experience with cloud data warehouses such as BigQuery, Snowflake or equivalent.
- ·Experience reconciling data across multiple source systems and designing data-quality controls.
Benefits
No benefits package published with this listing. Ask about it at first interview.
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, work from home, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at VirtuHire, mentioning your remote working experience.
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
Found 1d ago. Last checked 23 Sept. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.
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