Digital Data Engineering Manager

Description
The Digital Data Engineering Manager will lead a team responsible for building and maintaining marketing data infrastructure and tag management platforms. This role defines and executes the multi-year strategy for data capture, storage, and access. The manager oversees the design and management of data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and activation across marketing systems, including real-time customer data processing. They implement and enforce data governance standards to ensure data quality, compliance, and security. The manager establishes and promotes best practices for data structure, modeling, and platform utilization to enable scalability, performance, and effective data activation. This position requires strong technical expertise and experience managing modern data engineering teams. The manager will optimize team structure and resource allocation to maximize productivity and technology utilization, serving as the organization's primary authority on data engineering best practices.
In this role you will:
Lead a best-in-class data engineering team and practice within the marketing team, focusing on on-time, on-quality and on-cost of Marketing data and operations
Increase the quality, volume, usability, and access to enterprise data that can be used for marketing decisions
Define and execute a multi-year data engineering vision and plan
Develop/define data standards, executing data layer for marketing data, ingestion and quality (QA/QC) of marketing data for activation and analytics, operationalizing adTech capabilities, and driving operational excellence for campaign production and execution
Develop and maintain strong relationships with other team leads across the broader enterprise; including information and activity sharing, and collaborating towards common data goals
Responsible for individual team member's career planning, training, and growth
Stay abreast of industry best practices, and provide company thought leadership around tools and marketing technology as well as industry topics and trends
Be solutions-minded by working with business stakeholders to truly understand their needs and challenges, and then delivering on the right solutions
Develop and operate an effective data governance model
Work closely with leadership, partner organizations, and implementation teams to drive design & oversight of APIs, data sharing capabilities, and support models to underpin modern marketing transformation strategy
Educate marketing, agencies, and other cross-functional teams on data stewardship importance, quality, and consistency by providing needed exception reports, analytics, and continuous process improvements
Ensure that recurring data process and activities are highly automated to improve outcomes (time, quality, robustness, etc.) while increasing efficiencies (costs, streamline processes, etc.)
Skills
Adobe, AEP, people management, customer data, Data Engineering
Top Skills Details
Adobe,AEP,people management,customer data,Data Engineering
Additional Skills & Qualifications
What makes you an ideal candidate?
10+ years of relevant professional experience, with multiple years of managing individual team members in some combination of data engineering, marketing analytics, data science, big data, business intelligence, and/or process engineering
3+ years of hands-on experience with Adobe Experience Platform including RTCDP, CJA, Adobe Analytics, and Adobe Audience Manager
Experience with website tagging and analytics, including advanced-level experience with either Google and/or Adobe web analytics and tagging software
Demonstrable experience with Adobe Experience Platform data ingestion
Other Adobe Marketing Cloud product knowledge a plus (i.e. Test & Target and Audience Manager)
Solid understanding and experience working with data, databases, and popular data tools (e.g. SQL)
Experience with data ingestion, taxonomy, ETL development
Expert in data management strategies and industry tools/technologies (Martech, Adtech)
Experience in architecting marketing data
Knowledge of data privacy compliance and best practices
Strong project and operational leadership skills and experience
Knowledge and familiarity with contemporary thinking in areas such as database marketing, search engine optimization, search engine marketing, and UX
Exposure to web diagnostic tools like Adobe Digital Pulse Debugger, Developer tool, Omnibug, and/or CharlesProxy
Highly analytical and detail oriented, with a passion for data mining and the ability to assemble and interpret data and communicate findings across all levels of the organization
Action-oriented with the ability to multi-task and discern priorities

Experience
Greater than 10 years of combined experience in some form of data management or data engineering required
3-5 years of experience with Adobe Experience Platform
3-5 years of experience managing/mentoring individual team members required
5-7 years of experience specifically working with mktg data preferred
Experience Level
Expert Level
Job Type & Location
This is a Permanent position based out of Arlington, TX.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $160000.00 - $190000.00/yr.
Benefits from day 1 9 paid company holidays, 2 weeks of accrued PTO (first year), can roll over up to 120 hours per year, 1 full week of personal time (awarded day 1 and expires at anniversary), 3 floating holidays (expire year to year), 48 hours of accrued sick time (never expires). Relocation: Within reason, they will consider. No standard package in place - case by case.
Workplace Type
This is a hybrid position in Arlington,TX.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Apr 24, 2026.
>About TEKsystems:
We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services

We're a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We're a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We're strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We're building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.