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Octagon · 2 months ago

Data Engineer (AI Enablement)

Stamford, CT

Contract

Onsite

Mid Level

$90K/yr - $100K/yr

3+ years exp

Octagon is a global sports, entertainment, and experiential marketing company seeking a Data Engineer (AI Enablement) to build and operate data foundations that power their AI solutions and enterprise search. The role involves designing scalable data pipelines, collaborating across teams, and ensuring data quality to enable AI-powered workflows at scale.

AdvertisingBrand Marketing

Growth Opportunities

Responsibilities

Design and operate the vector database/search layer (e.g., FAISS/pgvector/Milvus) and document-chunking/embedding pipelines that make Octagon's content discoverable and auditable

Implement and maintain ELT/ETL to support downstream workflows such as data labeling, classification, and document parsing; build robust validations, lineage, and observability

Expose governed retrieval endpoints that respect permissions (ACLs), support metadata filters, and return source snippets/IDs for grounding and citations

Normalize, transform, and move JSON and other structured payloads cleanly through workflows to ensure reliable handoffs and automation outputs

Align product peers, design, data science, engineering, and commercial teams around a unified roadmap and shared data contracts

Take MVPs from the Solutions Engineer and productionize with CI/CD, telemetry, cost/usage guardrails, and pilot → rollout gating

Build monitoring (freshness, re-index SLAs, retrieval quality), secrets management, access controls, and audit logging aligned with enterprise governance

Flexibility and willingness to travel and work weekends or holidays as needed. Anticipated travel level: Low (0–15%)

Qualification

Data modelingELT/ETLPythonVector databasesData structuringAirflow/PrefectCollaboration skillsCommunication skills

Required

3+ years (or equivalent portfolio) building data systems: data modeling, ELT/ETL, Python + SQL; experience with cloud object storage and relational databases

Hands-on with embeddings and vector databases (e.g., FAISS/pgvector/Milvus) and document processing pipelines for RAG-style retrieval

Scalable pipeline experience supporting AI/ML/LLM use cases (labeling, classification, doc parsing) and partnering closely with Data Science and Data Labeling teams

Data structuring & manipulation expertise: cleanly normalizing and transforming JSON/Parquet/CSV payloads; designing resilient data contracts and schemas

Orchestration/ops: Airflow/Prefect (or similar), CI/CD, structured logging/monitoring, cost/usage guardrails; secure secrets management

Strong collaboration and communication skills; proven ability to align product/design/engineering/commercial stakeholders around a unified roadmap

Preferred

Enterprise connectors and productivity stacks (e.g., Microsoft 365/SharePoint/Teams/Graph, Copilot or Copilot Studio/Power Automate; Google Workspace; Salesforce; DAMs)

Experience implementing LLM inference patterns, similarity search, guardrails, and memory; familiarity with agent frameworks or custom orchestration

Additional languages for systems work (e.g., C++, C#, Java, or Go)

Containers (Docker), GitHub Actions, IaC; lightweight internal UIs (Streamlit or R Shiny) to expose services

Familiarity with marketing/media-measurement datasets and associated normalization/quality checks

Benefits

Unlimited PTO policy – we understand you need time for play!

Competitive medical/dental/vision insurance plans with FSA/HSA and Dependent Care FSA options. Pet Insurance for those who need it too!

Generous Family and Parental Leave Policy (12 weeks) with eligibility extended to all parents regardless of gender or primary/secondary caregiver status

Access to our parent company (IPG) Savings plan (401K program) with company match as well as an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Pretax Transportation/Commuter Benefits and Parent Travel Program

Dedicated Mental Health resources including Headspace membership, Employee Assistance Program (CCA) and more

Discount portal for everyday goods and services

Employee Resource Groups and inclusive diversity programming and initiatives

Personal Development programs