Data Engineer

Advance Local • Iselin, NJ • 3h ago

Job Description

Advance Local is looking for a Data Engineer to build and maintain data pipelines and integration solutions for the cloud data platform. This position involves the practical implementation of data ingestion, transformation, and quality processes within Snowflake, AWS, and other third-party platforms. You'll help to support data accessibility, prototyping, and audience insights through technical implementations and automation. Collaboration with data project managers, platform owners, and technical teams is required to deliver consistent data solutions that support analytics, audience insights, and business decision-making.

The base salary range is $100,000 - $120,000 per year.

What you'll be doing:

Implement data integration solutions working with platform owners across business units to ensure seamless data flow.

Build and maintain data pipeline that ingest data from various sources.

Develop scalable data preparation pipelines that serve ML modeling needs, reducing manual data engineering work by the data science team.

Build and maintain ML feature pipelines and model deployment workflows in Snowflake, enabling efficient model iteration and production deployment.

Support rapid prototyping of new data products by building flexible pipeline components and proof-of-concepts, enabling quick iteration and validation of ideas.

Develop solutions for data audience modeling, leveraging advanced data engineering techniques to enhance targeting and personalization.

Collaborate with data product, data scientists, analysts, and other stakeholders to understand data requirements and translate them into technical solutions.

Develop data transformations and quality checks to ensure reliable, clean data for downstream analytics and business intelligence.

Develop and maintain documentation for data engineering processes and systems.

Implement monitoring, alerting and logging for data pipelines and ML workflows to ensure reliability and quick issue resolution.

Troubleshoot and resolve data pipeline issues, escalating complex problems as needed.

Stay up to date with the latest data engineering technologies and industry trends.

Our ideal candidate will have the following:

Bachelor's degree in computer science, data engineering, information systems, or related field

Minimum three years' experience in data engineering, with demonstrated proficiency in SQL and data modeling

Experience with ETL tools, data integration frameworks and building data pipelines in Snowflake (SQL, stored procedures, streams, tasks)

Hands-on experience with AWS services (S3, Lambda, Glue) or similar cloud data services

Experience working with data scientists to operationalize ML models and build model training/inference pipelines

Strong proficiency in Python for data processing and automation

Familiarity with version control and CI/CD practices

Understanding of audience segmentation, analytics and business use cases

Understanding of data quality, testing and validation approaches

Knowledge of data orchestration tools (Airflow, dbt or similar)

Familiarity with ML workflows and model deployment patterns

Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities with attention to detail

Ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams

Excellent communication skills for working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Additional Information

Advance Local Media offers competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits package with affordable options for your healthcare including medical, dental and vision plans, mental health support options, flexible spending accounts, fertility assistance, a competitive 401(k) plan to help plan for your future, generous paid time off, paid parental and caregiver leave and an employee assistance program to support your work/life balance, optional legal assistance, life insurance options, as well as flexible holidays to honor cultural diversity.

Advance Local Media is one of the largest media groups in the United States, which operates the leading news and information companies in more than 20 cities, reaching 52+ million people monthly with our quality, real-time journalism and community engagement. Our company is built upon the values of Integrity, Customer-first, Inclusiveness, Collaboration and Forward-looking. For more information about Advance Local, please visit www.advancelocal.com .

Advance Local Media includes MLive Media Group, Advance Ohio, Alabama Media Group, NJ Advance Media, Advance Media NY, MassLive Media, Oregonian Media Group, Staten Island Media Group, PA Media Group, ZeroSum, Headline Group, Adpearance, Advance Aviation, Advance Healthcare, Advance Education, Advance National Solutions, Advance Recruitment, Advance Travel & Tourism, BookingsCloud, Cloud Theory, Fox Dealer, Hoot Interactive, Red Clay Media, Search Optics, Subtext.

Advance Local Media is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, encouraging applications from people of all backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, or any other category protected under federal, state or local law.

If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please contact Human Resources and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

Advance Local Media does not provide sponsorship for work visas or employment authorization in the United States. Only candidates who are legally authorized to work in the U.S. will be considered for this position.

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