AI-Driven Data Architect for Marketing Analytics

Samsara; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Samsara is seeking a Senior Data Engineer for Marketing Data and Analytics to design and scale data infrastructure that powers AI-driven insights. You will own Databricks pipelines, semantic models, and core data assets that enable self-serve analytics for marketing and sales teams.

This role emphasizes autonomy, cross-team collaboration, and delivering trustworthy data products. We value deep Python/SQL expertise, strong data modeling, and hands-on experience with the modern data stack.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or AI engineering with hands-on data engineering background.
• Expert-level Python and SQL, with strong data modeling and DBT experience.
• Experience with data warehouse/lakehouse architectures and the modern data stack, including ETL/ELT pipelines and Databricks or similar platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define strategy and multi-quarter roadmap for MDA's data and AI foundation.
• Architect and own Samsara's marketing data infrastructure: ETL/ELT pipelines, Gold Layer tables, and core data models for segmentation, targeting, automation, and analytics.
• Design semantic layers, data dictionaries, and structured docs for self-serve BI and AI ingestion, partnering with the BI team.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data modeling

ETL/ELT

Databricks

AI/Agent systems

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

BigQuery

DBT

Job description

Samsara is seeking a Senior Data Engineer for Marketing Data and Analytics to design and scale data infrastructure that powers AI-driven insights. You will own Databricks pipelines, semantic models, and core data assets that enable self-serve analytics for marketing and sales teams.

This role emphasizes autonomy, cross-team collaboration, and delivering trustworthy data products. We value deep Python/SQL expertise, strong data modeling, and hands-on experience with the modern data stack.