**Information Technology**: **Columbia, MD** **About the job**: We are looking for a talented and enthusiastic Data Engineer with excellent communication skills and big data processing knowledge to join our engineering team. You will build and maintain world class products to enable Merkle's people-based marketing vision using cutting-edge cloud-based technologies. You will work with a team of passionate, experienced, nimble, and goal-oriented engineers that are solving complex problems and building data analysis features for our world class solutions. You will embrace change, and rapidly build, test, and scale solutions that drive incremental business value for our customers and partners. You will also directly interact with client solution teams, guide, and support them in their efforts. You will report to the Senior Director of Engineering. **Qualifications**: Required Qualifications - Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience - 1+ years software development experience - Strong database fundamentals including SQL, relational and non-relational data models - Understanding of data structures, algorithms, distributed systems - Experienced with an object-oriented programming language (Java or Python required) - Knowledge of software engineering and development methodologies, techniques, and tools, including Agile Development, Issue Tracking (like JIRA), code repositories (Git or Bitbucket), Software Development Lifecycle and testing methodologies - Experience building and deploying products using continuous integration principles - Understanding of cloud-based technologies (AWS, GCP or Azure, AWS preferred) - Good Unix command line skills and Bash scripting Desired Skills - Experience with database schema designs and understanding of database performance - Experience with both Python and Java - Understanding big data concepts, data processing and data pipelines - Experience with Snowflake data warehouse technology and working with large data sets - Experience with AWS technologies (such as S3, EC2, RDS, EMR, Lambda or SNS/SQS) - Experience with data processing workflow systems (Airflow, Snowflake streams/tasks) - Experience of creating reports, dashboards and visualizations (Tableau, Snowsight) - Experience working with PII data is a plus **Additional Information**: LI-Remote This is a remote role. **About dentsu** We are champions for meaningful progress and we strive to be a force for good—for our people, for our clients, for the industry and for our society. We keep our people at the center, creating space for growth, understanding and learning so they can thrive. We embed diversity, in our mindset, in our solutions and in our teams to empower an inclusive, equitable and culturally fluent environment. Building this culture within our teams makes us better collaborators with each other and with our clients, driving better outcomes for all. **About the Company**: