Data Engineer

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