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Role: Data Engineer Location: Irving, TX Duration: 12 Months Pay Rate: $60/hr on W2 Key Responsibilities: Design, build, and operate scalable batch and real-time data pipelines in Databricks and related tooling to support audience, personalization, and measurement use cases. Build and maintain data models, feature/attribute pipelines, and marketing data feeds to decisioning systems and measurement platforms. Implement data-quality validation, monitoring, and change management so segments, flags, and attributes are accurate and trustworthy. Deliver governed customer attributes and audiences to activation platforms (e.g., Hightouch, Salesforce Marketing Cloud) with clear ownership and documentation. Partner with data science to productionize model features and with architecture to align on data contracts and identity resolution. Support privacy and compliance requirements across all data flows. Provide leadership-ready status, roadmap, and metrics reporting, and prepare decision memos that drive cross-team and leadership alignment. Basic Qualifications: 3+ years of experience in a data engineering role required. Strong SQL and proficiency in a programming language for data engineering (e.g., Python or Scala). Hands-on experience with Databricks/Spark, data lake/warehouse design, and pipeline orchestration. Experience with real-time/streaming data (e.g., Kafka) and event-driven architectures. Experience with reverse-ETL/activation and identity resolution (e.g., Hightouch, LiveRamp/UID2) preferred. Understanding of data modeling, data quality, governance, and change management. Familiarity with marketing/customer data concepts (C360, RFM, LTV, loyalty) and compliant handling of PII. Extra Credit: Experience in a MarTech, digital marketing, personalization, CRM, or retail-media ecosystem. Familiarity with platforms in our stack, e.g., Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC), Databricks, Hightouch, Kafka, Contentstack / CMS & DAM, LiveRamp / UID2. Retail or convenience-retail industry experience.
Here's how to pick the right one and stand out in your application.
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That number is real. WorkMundi's database shows 144,883 open engineer roles across the world. India has the most with 31,687 jobs, followed by the United States with 30,084. If you just finished reading one job ad and felt paralyzed by choice, you're not alone—but this scale is actually an advantage. It means you can afford to be selective.
Start by geography and language. The majority of engineer ads—117,837 of them—have the job posting text written in English. Use that as one filter, but remember: the ad text language tells you nothing about whether the role actually requires you to speak English day-to-day. Read the job description carefully. Then check which countries have the volume you're targeting. Singapore, Poland, and Australia round out the top five after India and the US.
Next, learn who's hiring. Accenture has posted 2,801 engineer roles. andurilindustries, speechify, and jobgether are also actively recruiting. If you're applying to one of these names, research their hiring patterns and interview style before you apply. That homework pays off.
When you interview, expect the question every engineer hears: 'Tell me about a time you had to debug a problem that wasn't in your job description.' Have a specific story ready—not a general one. Name the tools, the deadline pressure, and what you learned. Hiring managers listen for whether you see problem-solving as part of the role itself, not a favour.