What are the responsibilities and job description for the Tech Lead, Data Engineering position at Annalect?
About Annalect
Annalect is the Data & Technology arm of Omnicom Media Group
Annalect’s 4,000 innovators leverage data and technology to help clients across Omnicom build relationships that matter — whether that means fostering consumers’ trust in brands, building new experiences, or delivering advanced analytics where it’s most needed. Annalect is the driving force behind Omni, Omnicom’s unique open operating system, which works hand-in-hand with clients’ and partners’ data and tools, to orchestrate better marketing outcomes.
Annalect’s unique approach to data and technology – one that relies on transparency, neutrality, and interoperability – allows us to deliver purpose-built and scalable solutions that make data actionable. Our advanced teams of product leaders, data scientists, consultants, and engineers enable us to meet the business goals of our internal and external clients.
Omnicom, Annalect's parent company, is poised to become the world’s Marketing & Advertising industry leaders in 2025. This means unprecedented growth, new and innovative solutions for our international brand partners, and exciting career opportunities for media and technology professionals!
Position Overview
We have an immediate need for a Tech Lead, Media Data Engineering, and are currently seeking individuals who are interested in long-term independent contractor engagements (on 1099 status) who would potentially consider full-time, permanent roles with us in the future. Working remotely is an option for this role during the contractor period. You will need to be based in the United States and available during East Coast Time Zone working hours.
The Tech Lead will drive the architecture and strategy for unifying media buying data, creating accessible data products for stakeholders, and ensuring seamless integration for UI and AI applications. This role will spearhead the architecture and strategy for ingesting unified mar/ad-tech data (from ordering systems and ad servers to DSPs and social platforms) and ensuring its reliable delivery via client-specific storage and automated QA processes. You'll leverage this robust data foundation to create accessible data products that empower stakeholders and fuel UI and AI applications.
Key Responsibilities
This role is hybrid, requiring three (3) days per week in the office. The remaining two (2) days may be worked remotely. Specific in-office days will be discussed during the interview process, with flexibility to align with team needs. Please note that the number or required in-office days may be adjusted over time, potentially increasing the number of required in-office days based on business needs.
Annalect, a division of Omnicom Media Group is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.
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Annalect is the Data & Technology arm of Omnicom Media Group
Annalect’s 4,000 innovators leverage data and technology to help clients across Omnicom build relationships that matter — whether that means fostering consumers’ trust in brands, building new experiences, or delivering advanced analytics where it’s most needed. Annalect is the driving force behind Omni, Omnicom’s unique open operating system, which works hand-in-hand with clients’ and partners’ data and tools, to orchestrate better marketing outcomes.
Annalect’s unique approach to data and technology – one that relies on transparency, neutrality, and interoperability – allows us to deliver purpose-built and scalable solutions that make data actionable. Our advanced teams of product leaders, data scientists, consultants, and engineers enable us to meet the business goals of our internal and external clients.
Omnicom, Annalect's parent company, is poised to become the world’s Marketing & Advertising industry leaders in 2025. This means unprecedented growth, new and innovative solutions for our international brand partners, and exciting career opportunities for media and technology professionals!
Position Overview
We have an immediate need for a Tech Lead, Media Data Engineering, and are currently seeking individuals who are interested in long-term independent contractor engagements (on 1099 status) who would potentially consider full-time, permanent roles with us in the future. Working remotely is an option for this role during the contractor period. You will need to be based in the United States and available during East Coast Time Zone working hours.
The Tech Lead will drive the architecture and strategy for unifying media buying data, creating accessible data products for stakeholders, and ensuring seamless integration for UI and AI applications. This role will spearhead the architecture and strategy for ingesting unified mar/ad-tech data (from ordering systems and ad servers to DSPs and social platforms) and ensuring its reliable delivery via client-specific storage and automated QA processes. You'll leverage this robust data foundation to create accessible data products that empower stakeholders and fuel UI and AI applications.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive the architecture and data strategy for storing and processing data from media buying platforms unified with planned and delivered data
- Create data products for baseline operational reporting. Work with various stakeholder to get the requirements for desired data products. Create supporting documentation to scale these processes across multiple clients.
- Ensure the data can be easily querable and usable across various UI capabilities and AI agents
- Scale the system to accommodate for internal data discrepancies and variations in internal media buying systems
- 7 years of solid coding experience
- Deep experience with media buying platforms and the data formats in those platforms (Media Ocean, Media Tools, and digital platforms like Meta, TTD, DV360)
- Experience and passion for optimizing semi-structured and highly nested data for optimal querying and work with UI and AI systems
- Strong SQL experience and familiarity with working with data and databases (SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora, Redis, Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery)
- Expertise in creating data products and data shares at scale on demand for various stakeholders
This role is hybrid, requiring three (3) days per week in the office. The remaining two (2) days may be worked remotely. Specific in-office days will be discussed during the interview process, with flexibility to align with team needs. Please note that the number or required in-office days may be adjusted over time, potentially increasing the number of required in-office days based on business needs.
Annalect, a division of Omnicom Media Group is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.
Review Our Recruitment Privacy Notice
