Cox Communications · 1 day ago
Lead Data Engineer
Atlanta, GA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$134K/yr - $181K/yr
6+ years expCox Communications is a leading telecommunications company, and they are seeking a Lead Data Engineer to enhance their AdTech solutions. The role involves overseeing technology solutions for performance tracking, building data environments, and providing technical leadership in data engineering practices.
Communication HardwareInternetInternet of ThingsTelecommunicationsWired Telecommunications
Responsibilities
Exercise responsibility over technology solutions to support the performance, tracking and measurement of paid media and SEM
Build and maintain environments (in cloud platforms and on-prem), processes, functionalities, and tools to improve all stages of AdTech solution development, including proof of concepts, prototypes, and production
Define data requirements in collaboration with digital, marketing, and external teams
Automate manual processes into repeatable capabilities
Create and maintain containers to deploy AdTech applications in cloud-based and on-prem platforms
Engineer media data and online data transfers to and from Snowflake and Cox's Enterprise Data Warehouse using SQL, HighTouch and custom Python scripts
Develop and follow data engineering best practices with considerations for high data availability, computational efficiency, cost, and quality
Provide hands-on technical leadership in data engineering design and implementations including data ingestion, data models, data structures, data storage, high-throughput data processing, data pipelines, and data monitoring at scale
Evaluate and make recommendations on new technologies, tools, and data
Manage timelines and milestones for solution implementations, launches, and QA
Oversee third party data onboarding efforts with technology platforms
Provide guidance/mentorship to keep the team up to date on new technologies, standards and practices
Work closely with external consultants to develop and/or modify existing Python scripts for data ETL
Manage all direct database match efforts including list pulls and match rates by partners
Set up and manage prospect and customer lists
Re-target logic set up and maintenance across media partners and integration into Cox's Lead Gen system
Present opportunities and communicate insights to cross-functional teams, including senior leadership
Exercise responsibility over daily maintenance and set up of segment logic, definition of offline-to-online capabilities with segments, and integration with other AdTech data stacks
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Analytics, or related field
6 years of experience in the position offered or 6 years of experience programming with SQL, Python, R, AWS, Snowflake, Oracle or Microsoft DB programming language
6 years of experience utilizing data management platforms, 3rd party data onboarding solutions, and direct database data management synchronizations
6 years of experience working in data warehousing, data engineering, databases, AdTech, APIs and ETL
6 years of experience working with cloud vendors
6 years of experience functionally managing outside technology, vendors, and agency partners
6 years of experience utilizing tag management systems
6 years of experience working with ICOMS
6 years of experience integrating APIs in the telecommunications space
6 years of experience communicating insights to cross-functional teams including senior leadership
In lieu of a bachelor's degree and 6 years of experience as stated, the employer will accept a master's or foreign equivalent degree in the aforementioned fields and 4 years of experience as stated
In lieu of a bachelor's degree and 6 years of experience as stated, the employer will accept a Ph.D. or foreign equivalent degree in the aforementioned fields and 1 year of experience as stated
Must live within commuting distance of stated office in Atlanta, GA
Benefits
Flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations
Seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year
Up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members
Additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave
Time off to vote
Jury duty leave
Volunteer time off
Military leave
Parental leave
Company
Cox Communications
Cox Communications operates as a multiservice broadband communications company in the United States. It is a sub-organization of Cox Enterprises.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$504.94MKey Investors
U.S. Department of the Treasury
2025-05-16Acquired
2024-06-17Grant· $4.94M
2002-09-17Debt Financing· $500M
Leadership Team
Kristine Faulkner
Senior Vice President, Marketing Operations
Colleen McKay Langner
Chief Operations Officer, Executive Vice President Chief Marketing & Sales Officer
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