Data Engineer

BSBF; Piscataway Township (NJ); Hybrid; USD 97,000 - 137,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Vacation days

Job summary

Colgate-Palmolive is seeking a passionate Data Engineer to join our Digital Tech & Data team. You will build and maintain data pipelines from touchpoints to Snowflake, ensuring clean, reliable data for business users.

You will design production-grade pipelines in Airflow, develop dbt models, and manage cloud infrastructure with Terraform. The role emphasizes data quality, observability, and cost-aware optimization in a hybrid work environment in New Jersey.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, IS, engineering, mathematics, or related field.
• 2–3 years of hands-on data engineering or analytics experience.
• Experience in a digital or e-commerce environment is a plus.
• Proven ability to build production-grade data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain production-grade data pipelines in Airflow.
• Develop modular, tested dbt models transforming raw data into business datasets.
• Provision and manage Snowflake objects and Airflow environments via Terraform.
• Implement data quality, observability, and testing across pipelines.
• Tune Snowflake performance and manage warehouse cost.

Skills

Python

SQL

Airflow

Snowflake

dbt

Terraform

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related discipline

Tools

Airflow

Snowflake

dbt

Terraform

Job description

Established in 1806 as a small soap and candle business in New York City, Colgate-Palmolive is now a truly global company with products sold in over 200 countries and territories under such internationally recognized brand names as Colgate, Palmolive, Softsoap, Irish Spring, Protex, Sorriso, Kolynos, elmex, Tom's of Maine, Sanex, Ajax, Axion, Soupline, Haci Sakir, Suavitel, PCA SKIN, EltaMD, Filorga and Hello as well as Hill's Science Diet and Hill's Prescription Diet.

Colgate-Palmolive is a leading consumer products company that serves hundreds of millions of consumers worldwide with brands and products across four core businesses – Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care and Pet Nutrition. We are committed to offering products that make lives healthier and more enjoyable, and programs that enrich communities around the world.

Every day millions of people trust our products to care for themselves and the ones they love. Our goal is to use our technology to create products that will continue to improve the quality of life for our consumers wherever they live.

A career at Colgate-Palmolive is an excellent opportunity if you seek a global experience, constant challenge, and development opportunities in an environment that respects work/life effectiveness.

Travel Required?: Travel - up to 10% of time

Posting Start Date: 7/31/26

Hybrid

No Relocation Assistance Offered

Piscataway, New Jersey, United States

Who We Are

Colgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company operating in over 200 countries specializing in Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care, Skin Care, and Pet Nutrition. Our products are trusted in more households than any other brand in the world, making us a household name!

Join Colgate-Palmolive, a caring, innovative growth company reimagining a healthier future for people, their pets, and our planet. Guided by our core values—Caring, Inclusive, and Courageous—we foster a culture that inspires our people to achieve common goals. Together, let's build a brighter, healthier future for all.

Role Summary:

We are seeking a passionate and detail-oriented Data Engineer to join our Digital Tech & Data team. In this role, you will be responsible for building and maintaining the data pipelines that support our digital ecosystem — from ingesting raw data across multiple digital touchpoints to delivering clean, robust data that business teams can trust and act on.

You will bring engineering rigour to data — treating pipelines, models, and infrastructure as production-grade software — while staying closely connected to the digital business context your work enables.

Responsibilities:

Design, build, and maintain production-grade data pipelines in Airflow that ingest data from digital touchpoints into Snowflake.

Develop modular, tested, and well-documented dbt models that transform raw data into reliable, business-ready datasets — owning the full lifecycle from source definition to exposure.

Provision and manage cloud data infrastructure (Snowflake objects, Airflow environments, supporting GCP resources) through Terraform, with everything version-controlled and peer-reviewed.

Implement and uphold data quality, observability, and testing standards across pipelines

Tune Snowflake performance and manage warehouse cost — clustering, query profiling, resource monitors and treat cost as a first-class engineering concern.

Implement pipelines to platform standards — branching strategy, CI/CD for dbt and Airflow, code review norms, documentation, naming conventions

Required Qualifications:

Education:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related discipline.

Experience:

2–3 years of hands-on experience in a data engineering or analytics engineering role, ideally within a digital or e-commerce environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

Proven experience building and maintaining production-grade data pipelines using Apache Airflow.

Strong working knowledge of Snowflake, including data modelling, performance tuning, clustering, and warehouse cost management.

Demonstrated experience developing dbt projects — writing modular, tested, and well-documented transformation logic.

Practical experience using Terraform to provision and manage cloud data infrastructure in a repeatable, version-controlled manner.

Proficiency in Python for writing data pipelines, custom operators, and utility tooling.

Strong SQL skills with the ability to write and optimise complex queries across large datasets.

Fluency in driving an AI coding tool across pipeline codebase: scoping changes, providing the right files as context.

Compensation and Benefits

Salary Range $96,800.00 - $137,000.00 USD

Pay is determined based on experience, qualifications, and location. Salaried employees may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, profit-sharing, and long-term incentives for Executive-level roles.

Benefits: Salaried employees enjoy a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and participation in the 401(k) retirement plan with company matching contributions subject to eligibility requirements. Additional benefits include a minimum of 15 vacation/PTO days (hourly employees receive a minimum of 120 hours) and 13 paid holidays (vacation days are prorated based on the employee's hire date within the calendar year). Paid sick leave is adjusted based on role and location in accordance with local laws. Detailed information regarding paid sick leave entitlements will be provided to employees upon hiring and may be subject to adjustments based on changes in legislation or company policies.

Our Commitment to Inclusion

Our journey begins with our people—developing strong talent with diverse backgrounds and perspectives to best serve our consumers around the world and fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels a true sense of belonging. We are dedicated to ensuring that each individual can be their authentic self, is treated with respect, and is empowered by leadership to contribute meaningfully to our business.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Colgate is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, marital status, veteran status (United States positions), or any other characteristic protected by law.

Reasonable accommodation during the application process is available for persons with disabilities. Please complete this request form should you require accommodation.

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