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Ovative Group · 1 hour ago

Data Engineer - Marketing Science and Offerings

Minneapolis, MN

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid Level

3+ years exp

Ovative Group is an independent media, measurement, and creative firm that helps brands transform their marketing programs. The Data Engineer role focuses on enabling high-quality data foundations and advanced analytics to support client consultative work and internal product development.

ConsultingConsumer GoodsLegalRetail

Culture & Values

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Serve as a technical contributor on a high-performance data engineering, science, and advanced analytics team, owning scoped workstreams and delivering executional excellence

Design, build, test, and deploy reliable data pipelines integrating external sources, with emphasis on APIs (e.g., authentication, pagination, rate-limit handling, backfills, schema evolution, and monitoring/alerting)

Expand Ovative’s use of partner clean rooms (e.g. Amazon Marketing Cloud, Meta clean rooms): activate, author and optimize SQL queries, design experiments and measurement analyses, and operationalize repeatable templates

Lead or assist in the discovery of advertising data, mapping sources/structures to enable measurement-related reporting, analytics, and modeling

Identify automation opportunities across ingestion, transformations (e.g., dbt), QA, and delivery to improve reliability, speed, and cost efficiency

Contribute to Joint Technical Plans (JTPs) with partners and clients: define technical approaches, sequence milestones, document assumptions/risks, and build PoCs that unlock new Ovative offerings

Provide technical assistance to teammates and help raise the collective expertise in APIs, clean rooms, and analytical data engineering

Follow software, security, and product engineering best practices: version control, CI/CD, code reviews, reproducibility, documentation, and testing

Explore new technologies and tools—aligned with security, enterprise architecture, and data platform guidance—to enhance marketing data solutions

Qualification

Data engineeringAPI integrationsSQLPythonETL/ELTCloud platformsAdvertising data platformsData architectureQA processesAgile methodologyCollaborationTechnical documentation

Required

3+ years of relevant data engineering development experience, ideally in analytics- or modeling-heavy environments

Proficiency with ETL/ELT for large data sets and building resilient API integrations

Strong SQL and Python skills; comfort with command line and working in modern data stack workflows

Preferred

Experience with cloud-based platforms (e.g., GCP, AWS, or Azure); data warehouses and big data tools (e.g., BigQuery, Databricks); and pipeline/orchestration tools (e.g., dbt, Dagster, or Airflow)

Hands-on experience with advertising data platforms (e.g., Amazon Ads/AMC data exports, Google Ads API, Google Analytics Data API) and/or tools for connector management

Practical experience using partner clean rooms—especially Amazon Marketing Cloud and Meta clean rooms—including SQL development, privacy-safe joins, experiment design, audience/overlap analysis, and templating/automation

Experience contributing to Joint Technical Plans (JTPs) or similar partner/client technical roadmaps, with an ability to scope PoCs and scale pilots into production solutions

Experience creating data/table architectures for analytics and modeling (dimensional designs, feature stores, slowly changing dimensions, partitioning/clustering)

Experience implementing QA processes and automation (e.g., dbt tests, Great Expectations, anomaly detection/monitoring)

Familiarity integrating data models within software products and measurement platforms; understanding of marketing, analytics, and customer data domains

Familiarity with agile tooling and collaboration (JIRA, Confluence) and with code versioning (GitHub)

Benefits

Access to all office spaces in MSP, NYC, and CHI

Frequent, paid travel to our Minneapolis headquarters for company events, team events, and in-person collaboration with teams

Flexible paid vacation policy

401k match program

Top-notch health insurance options, inclusive of same sex partners

Family formation benefits including reimbursement options for fertility, pregnancy, and parenting needs

Monthly stipend for your mobile phone and data plan

Sabbatical program

Charitable giving via our time and a financial match program

Shenanigan’s Day

Company

Ovative Group

Glassdoor4.1

Digital strategy consultants serving the retail and consumer packaged goods industry

Founded in 2009

Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

501-1000 employees

http://www.ovative.com

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