Data Engineer – Adobe AEP & Real-Time CDP

Dentsu Aegis Network Ltd.; Maryland; Hybrid; USD 94,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, vision, dental insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401k

Flexible paid time off

15+ paid holidays per year

Paid sick and safe leave

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Dentsu is hiring a Data Engineer to build the data foundation powering customer experiences using Adobe Experience Platform and Real-Time CDP. You will design scalable data pipelines, implement XDM schemas, and drive identity resolution and audience activation strategies.

You will work across on-prem and cloud data warehouses, collaborate with architects, and mentor junior engineers while ensuring data governance and quality across the stack.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of data engineering experience.
• Experience delivering client-facing data solutions in marketing tech.
• Hands-on experience building production-grade data pipelines.
• Strong expertise in Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) and Real-Time CDP.
• Deep SQL expertise with optimization, complex queries, CTEs, and window functions.
• Experience with Python, PySpark, Java, Scala, or similar.
• Experience with data integration, APIs, cloud platforms, and data transformation frameworks.
• Knowledge of Data governance, GDPR/CCPA compliance, data lineage and metadata management.
• Familiarity with XDM, Identity Resolution, Real-Time Profiles, Audience Segmentation & Activation.
• Preferred certifications in Adobe/ Snowflake/ Databricks/ Google Cloud / AWS.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement data pipelines across AEP, Real-Time CDP, data warehouses, and activation channels.
• Build and manage XDM schemas, real-time customer profiles, identity resolution frameworks, and audience activation strategies.
• Develop scalable ingestion, transformation, and enrichment pipelines using SQL, Python, dbt, Airflow, APIs, and cloud tools.
• Integrate Adobe Experience Platform with Journey Optimizer, Mapping and Analytics tools and other Adobe products.
• Ensure compliance, governance, consent management, and data quality across solutions.
• Partner with architects and stakeholders to deliver AI-ready customer data ecosystems.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering best practices.

Skills

Data engineering

SQL

Python

Spark / PySpark

Adobe Experience Platform

Real-Time CDP

Data governance

Identity resolution

Cloud platforms

Tools

dbt

Apache Airflow

APIs

Snowflake

Databricks

BigQuery / Google Cloud

Job description

Dentsu is hiring a Data Engineer to build the data foundation powering customer experiences using Adobe Experience Platform and Real-Time CDP. You will design scalable data pipelines, implement XDM schemas, and drive identity resolution and audience activation strategies.

You will work across on-prem and cloud data warehouses, collaborate with architects, and mentor junior engineers while ensuring data governance and quality across the stack.