Lead Data Engineer

Location
: New York (Hybrid - 2 days a week in office
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About the job:

We're seeking a Lead Data Engineer to drive innovation and excellence across our Marketing Technology data ecosystem. You thrive in dynamic, fast-paced environments and are comfortable navigating both legacy systems and modern data architectures. You balance long-term strategic planning with short-term urgency, responding to challenges with clarity, speed, and purpose.

You take initiative, quickly familiarize yourself with source systems, ingestion pipelines, and operational processes, and integrate seamlessly into agile work rhythms. Above all, you bring a solution-oriented, win-win mindset—owning outcomes and driving progress.

What you will do at Sogeti:

• Rapidly onboard into our Martech data ecosystem—understanding source systems, ingestion flows, and operational processes.
• Build and maintain scalable data pipelines across Martech, Loyalty, and Engineering teams.
• Balance long-term projects with short-term reactive tasks, including urgent bug fixes and business-critical issues.
• Identify gaps in data infrastructure or workflows and proactively propose and implement solutions.
• Collaborate with product managers, analysts, and data scientists to ensure data availability and quality.
• Participate in agile ceremonies and contribute to backlog grooming, sprint planning, and team reviews.

What you will bring:

• 7+ years of experience in data engineering, with a strong foundation in ETL design, cloud platforms, and real-time data processing.
• Deep expertise in Snowflake, Airflow, dbt, Fivetran, AWS S3, Lambda, Python, SQL.
• Previous experience integrating data from multiple retail and ecommerce source systems.
• Experience with implementation and data management for loyalty platforms, customer data platforms, marketing automation systems, and ESPs.
• Deep expertise in data modeling with dbt.
• Demonstrated ability to lead critical and complex platform migrations and new deployments.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Self-driven, adaptable, and proactive problem solver

Education:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related field.

Life at Sogeti:
Sogeti supports all aspects of your well-being throughout the changing stages of your life and career. For eligible employees, we offer:

• Flexible work options
• 401(k) with 150% match up to 6%
• Employee Share Ownership Plan
• Medical, Prescription, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance
• 100% Company-Paid Mobile Phone Plan
• 3 Weeks PTO + 7 Paid Holidays
• Paid Parental Leave
• Adoption, Surrogacy & Cryopreservation Assistance
• Subsidized Back-up Child/Elder Care & Tutoring
• Career Planning & Coaching
• $5,250 Tuition Reimbursement & 20,000+ Online Courses
• Employee Resource Groups
• Counseling & Support for Physical, Financial, Emotional & Spiritual Well-being
• Disaster Relief Programs

About Sogeti

Part of the Capgemini Group, Sogeti makes business value through technology for organizations that need to implement innovation at speed and want a local partner with global scale. With a hands-on culture and close proximity to its clients, Sogeti implements solutions that will help organizations work faster, better, and smarter. By combining its agility and speed of implementation through a DevOps approach, Sogeti delivers innovative solutions in quality engineering, cloud and application development, all driven by AI, data and automation.

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