Actable (www.actable.com) is a tech-enabled service provider specializing in customer analytics. Through our Intelligence Factory platform, we help brands collect, unify, and activate customer data, enabling smarter, personalized customer experiences and driving measurable business growth.
We combine expert consulting with proprietary technology, empowering our clients to rapidly implement advanced segmentation, predictive modeling, and real-time insights.
Our results-oriented culture is built on a diverse set of skills possessed by a collaborative and forward-looking team that is hungry to deliver solutions to tough problems, working with our clients to achieve new marketing milestones.
We are looking for innovative minds and team players to join our growing team, with offices in New York City, Portland, OR and Denver, CO.
Associate Director, Data Engineering is a pivotal role within Actable’s Data Engineering practice. We’re looking for a strategic thinker with a proven track record in data architecture, data pipelines, and a passion for fostering a collaborative and high-performing team environment.
Your success will hinge on your ability to collaborate effectively with project delivery leaders across Actable. You’ll act as a bridge between the technical expertise of the data engineering team and the broader business goals of our clients. By providing technical leadership and mentorship, you’ll empower your team to deliver exceptional results that fuel data-driven decision making and propel our clients towards success.
What you’ll be doing:
- Technical Leadership: Provide technical thought leadership within the data engineering team. Develop and enforce data engineering best practices, ensuring code quality, maintainability, and adherence to industry standards.
- Data Pipeline Development: Oversee the design, development, and maintenance of data pipelines. Ensure data is collected, processed, and stored efficiently and accurately. Implement data quality checks and monitoring processes to uphold data integrity.
- Data Architecture and Design: Support the Data Engineering Team in designing and building scalable data platforms for client projects.
- Mentorship and Coaching: Mentor and coach junior data engineers, fostering a collaborative learning environment by helping them develop their technical skills and problem-solving abilities.
- Collaboration: Work closely with other teams within Actable, including Solutions and Customer Success, to ensure seamless integration of data engineering solutions into client projects.
- Innovation and Problem-Solving: Identify and evaluate new data engineering tools and technologies to enhance our capabilities and address evolving client needs. Lead brainstorming sessions and collaborative problem-solving efforts to tackle complex data challenges.
- Documentation and Knowledge Sharing: Champion the creation and maintenance of clear and concise technical documentation for data pipelines and processes. Foster a culture of knowledge sharing within the team through code reviews, knowledge base creation, and brown bag sessions.
- Performance Optimization: Continuously monitor and analyze the performance of data pipelines and platforms. Identify bottlenecks and implement strategies for improvement, ensuring data pipelines are efficient, scalable, and meet client requirements.
- Client Interface: Participate in client meetings as needed to gather requirements, present solutions, and answer technical questions. Build strong working relationships with key client stakeholders to ensure successful project delivery.
Specific responsibilities include:
- Combine and organize raw information from different sources, analyze and organize raw data, build data pipelines, and analytical tools.
- Create data architecture artifacts such as data dictionaries, pipeline topologies, ERD diagrams, and other documents needed to define data pipelines.
- Strong SQL skills and a good understanding of existing SQL warehouses and relational databases.
- Deep understanding, both conceptually and in practice, of at least one object-oriented programming language (Python, Scala).
- Build large-scale batch and real-time data pipelines.
- Interpret and develop a clear point of view on data management trends and patterns.
- Experience with container orchestration technology (Docker/Kubernetes) is a plus.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to translate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Support development of thought leadership materials.
- Provide mentorship, coaching, and hands-on training to staff.
- Promote collaboration, teamwork, and Actable’s core values.
Required Experience
Our candidate is a well-rounded professional with explicit experience in MarTech. This person should be well exposed to the MarTech landscape.
Specifically, desirable experience includes:
- 5+ Years of Experience as a Data Engineer or similar role.
- Strong experience in Cloud platforms and related services (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Strong experience with data orchestration (e.g Airflow, Dagster) and ELT tools (e.g. DBT, Dataform)
- Strong experience with Cloud Data Platforms (Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery)
- Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, IT, Data Engineering or related field.
- Technical expertise with data models, data mining, and segmentation techniques
- Deep understanding, both conceptually and in practice of at least one object orientated language (Python, Scala).
- Strong SQL skills and a good understanding of existing SQL warehouses and relational databases.
- History building large-scale batch and real-time data pipelines.
- Must have experience executing projects end-to-end.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to translate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
Bonus points for:
- Experience supporting data science projects.
- Experience with DataOps methodologies.
Cultural Add
We are looking for people who are willing to come to an early-stage start-up to help us build something truly special, learn continuously, and have fun along the way. This is an environment for high performers who inherently believe that real-time, cross-channel customer experiences are the future of marketing, and that they themselves possess the intellect and drive necessary to deliver that future. The ideal employee must display Actable’s core values daily:
- We act with integrity, always. We are sincere and honest with our clients and with each other.
- We are relentlessly curious. We like to ask, “why,” we love to learn, and we are never satisfied with “good enough.”
- We love to innovate. We build things and invent solutions and products that our clients need.
- We focus on results, and continuous improvement. We drive incremental revenue for our clients on an ongoing basis.
- We collaborate. We share, teach and learn together. We have a ton of fun along the journey.
Additionally, since we are spread between locations candidates must be comfortable in a high-collaboration virtual environment. Actable has clear guidelines for our expectations in this area. Actable will offer an attractive compensation package of base salary, profit sharing, and medical/dental/vision benefits.
Actable’s Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
At Actable, our team is our most important asset. We work with clients from a variety of backgrounds and experiences, whose shared goal is to connect with customers in meaningful ways that build trust and value. Our ability to deliver great work to them is rooted in our commitment to a diverse, inclusive culture that is built around the belief that we learn and grow better together.
In building our team, what matters most is that you are yourself when you are with us. We welcome the unique contributions of our employees and seek to celebrate and support individual voices for the collective benefit of our team and our customers. As such, we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. For more information, please email [email protected].
