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$140K - 180K a year
Lead design and implementation of scalable data mesh solutions to ingest and deliver client media data, manage data product delivery and governance, and represent data engineering in client engagements.
7+ years coding experience with strong expertise in large-scale data products, modern data stack tools, data storage strategies, and ability to communicate complex data engineering concepts to clients.
Team Overview The Annalect Engineering team is an engaged and innovative group of technologists that includes backend, frontend, full-stack, and data engineers. It is comprised of team members who are highly collaborative and committed to a culture of work/life balance and continual learning and development. Position Overview Annalect is currently seeking an associate director of data engineering to join our technology team remotely. In this role, you will be responsible for extending our data mesh capabilities to ingest client media data and to to deliver this data to our clients at large scale. You will lead the design and implementation of strategies to seamlessly integrate data from our mesh into diverse client environments. You will collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to understand client needs and develop creative solutions leveraging our core data mesh architecture. You will represent the data engineering team in client engagements, explaining how our data mesh works and how it can address their specific challenges. You will be accountable for the scaled enterprise delivery and governance of data products for the clients and stakeholders. Key Responsibilities • Extend data supply from our data mesh into custom client environments through modern data stack components. Work with clients on architecture and creative solutions to do cross-environment secure data shares and data worksteams. • Represent data engineering for various custom requests and client interactions. Explain how data mesh works and its benefits to clients and internal stakeholders. • Work with various stakeholder to get the requirements for desired data products and then guide the work of data engineers to create the custom data products. Create supporting documentation to scale these processes across multiple clients. • Oversee the development of various data sharing mechanisms and processes. Guide development of data sharing layers (APIs, workbenches, etc.) for client access. • Ensure the ingest of client data, processes that govern ingest and systems that make accessible large amounts of data of our clients. Work with Data QA to ensure data accuracy and consistency. Work with security teams to ensure correct data usage. • Lead the documentation of data governance standsards. Ensure we have inituitive documentations for staekeholders and clients to request data and for the engineerting to supply this data. Required Skills And Qualifications • 7+ years of solid coding experience • Strong expertise with working with data products at scale and large enterprise datasets • Familiarity with modern data stack: Data transformation tools like (dbt, Databricks), data ingestion (Fivetran, Airbyte) and data sharing (Snowflake, Starburst) • Familiarity with creating scalable data sharing solutions through data products (Starburst, DBT) and data catalogues (Data.world, Secoda, Alation) • Familiarity with working with data and databases (SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora, Redis, Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery) • Experience with data storage strategies(S3, Partitioning, Efficient Quering) • Strategic understanding of contemporary data architectures (Data mesh, data fabric). Ability to write high-quality documentation and draw architecture diagrams of the software and make client-facing presentations to explain complex data engineering in accessible terms Perks of working at Annalect • Culture! We have an incredibly fun, collaborative environment that encourages engagement and work/life balance • Generous PTO that includes vacation days, personal days, a fantastic Summer Friday program and extended time off around the holiday season. • As part of Omnicom, we have the backing and resources of a global billion-dollar company, but also have the flexibility and pace of a "startup" - we move fast, break things, and innovate. #LI-CC2
This job posting was last updated on 11/28/2025