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VirtuHire

Marketing Data Engineer - Ad Tech (US hours)

South Africa
Level
Mid
Work type
Remote · South Africa only

Not stated in the posting: salary, visa.

Open. First seen 3 October 2026.

About the role

Our client in the US is looking for a Marketing Data Engineer to own the data pipelines and data-quality foundation that power their dashboards, pacing outputs and recurring reporting.

Core 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.

Requirements

Must-have profile

  • 4+ years in data engineering/analytics engineering with production ETL/API responsibility.
  • Strong SQL plus at least one production programming/scripting language such as Python.
  • Experience with cloud data warehouses such as BigQuery, Snowflake or equivalent.
  • Experience reconciling data across multiple source systems and designing data-quality controls.
  • Ability to own production pipelines, troubleshoot failures and document data definitions clearly.

Preferred experience

  • Direct experience with advertising/marketing platform APIs and campaign data.
  • Experience with DV360 or other DSP data models, ad-server data or marketing attribution feeds.
  • Experience with scheduled reporting/alerting and secure client data delivery.

What success looks like

  • Reporting data is reliable and reconciles within agreed tolerance.
  • Pipeline failures or data lag are detected before clients notice.
  • Platform changes do not create reporting gaps.
  • Metric definitions remain consistent across dashboards and recurring reports.

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

BigQuery

Rare in VirtuHire's other 23 open postings.

Standard for data engineering roles

Data Warehousing · ETL · Python · SQL · Snowflake

Common in data engineering postings at any company.

Compared with VirtuHire's other open jobs.

The team: Tech

This role is one of 4 open in Tech.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

Data Warehousing (2 of 4), Python (2 of 4), SQL (2 of 4)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

From the team and dates on VirtuHire's own job board.

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