Job Overview
Job description
- Location:
- South Africa
- Work arrangement:
- On-site
Role Summary
Our client in the US is looking for a Marketing Data Engineer to own the data pipelines and data-quality foundation that power their dashboards, pacing outputs and recurring reporting.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain API/ETL ingestion from DSPs, ad servers and other advertising platforms.
- Normalize campaign data and maintain metric definitions used across dashboards and reporting.
- Manage cloud-warehouse structures and client data deliveries where required.
- Reconcile pipeline output against raw platform exports and investigate material variance.
- Build automated data-quality checks, alerting and monitoring for pipeline/dashboard health.
- Manage service-account/API credential workflows in the clients owned environments.
- Support platform migrations and rebuild data integrations without reporting discontinuity.
- Partner with Dashboard Developer and Programmatic Lead on definitions, mapping and release validation.
Requirements
Must-have profile
- 4+ years in data engineering/analytics engineering with production ETL/API responsibility.
- Strong SQL plus at least one production programming/scripting language such as Python.
- Experience with cloud data warehouses such as BigQuery, Snowflake or equivalent.
- Experience reconciling data across multiple source systems and designing data-quality controls.
- Ability to own production pipelines, troubleshoot failures and document data definitions clearly.
Preferred experience
- Direct experience with advertising/marketing platform APIs and campaign data.
- Experience with DV360 or other DSP data models, ad-server data or marketing attribution feeds.
- Experience with scheduled reporting/alerting and secure client data delivery.
What success looks like
- Reporting data is reliable and reconciles within agreed tolerance.
- Pipeline failures or data lag are detected before clients notice.
- Platform changes do not create reporting gaps.
- Metric definitions remain consistent across dashboards and recurring reports.
About the Company
We’re a fast-growing premium D2C skincare brand building more than just products.
Our mission is to bring clinic-grade skincare into everyday homes — delivering professional-level results without the high cost, complexity, or intimidation of in-clinic treatments.
We combine advanced formulations with strong branding and performance-driven marketing. Creative is a core driver of growth.
Work directly on high-impact, revenue-driving creatives
Gain exposure to the entire D2C business ecosystem
Be at the forefront of AI implementation in a fast-scaling brand
Continuous learning and growth across creative, marketing, and AI
- Role:
- Marketing Data Engineer - Ad Tech (US hours)
- Job Type:
- Full Time