Marketing Data Engineer: Build Reliable Data Pipelines

VirtuHire; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 850,000; Full time

Job summary

VirtuHire is seeking a Marketing Data Engineer to own the data pipelines and data-quality foundation that power dashboards, pacing outputs and recurring reporting. You will build and maintain API/ETL ingestion, normalize campaign data and manage cloud-warehouse structures.

Ideal candidates have 4+ years in data engineering with production ETL/API responsibility, strong SQL and Python, and hands-on experience with BigQuery or Snowflake. DV360 and ad-server data experience are a plus.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in data engineering/analytics engineering with production ETL/API responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain API/ETL ingestion from DSPs, ad servers and other advertising platforms.
• Normalize campaign data and maintain metric definitions used across dashboards and reporting.
• Manage cloud-warehouse structures and client data deliveries where required.
• Reconcile pipeline output against raw platform exports and investigate material variance.
• Build automated data-quality checks, alerting and monitoring for pipeline/dashboard health.
• Manage service-account/API credential workflows in the clients owned environments.
• Support platform migrations and rebuild data integrations without reporting discontinuity.
• Partner with Dashboard Developer and Programmatic Lead on definitions, mapping and release validation.

Skills

SQL

Python

ETL

APIs

Data quality

Tools

BigQuery

Snowflake

DV360

Job description

VirtuHire is seeking a Marketing Data Engineer to own the data pipelines and data-quality foundation that power dashboards, pacing outputs and recurring reporting. You will build and maintain API/ETL ingestion, normalize campaign data and manage cloud-warehouse structures.

Ideal candidates have 4+ years in data engineering with production ETL/API responsibility, strong SQL and Python, and hands-on experience with BigQuery or Snowflake. DV360 and ad-server data experience are a plus.