SQL/ETL Developer — United States

About ••••••••

At ••••••••, we're focused on delivering cutting-edge applications & data services to our clients, including advertising agencies, media companies, and brands. Our patented, privacy-compliant technology powers next-level marketing by unlocking first-party data at scale—giving advertisers the edge they need in a cookieless world.

Join ••••••••, a cutting-edge Marketing Technology SaaS company, where our global software team operates seamlessly across 5 time zones and 6 countries, working collaboratively in a location-independent environment. Our teams thrive online, demonstrating autonomy, cooperation, and a shared commitment to ownership and excellence.

We are currently seeking a dynamic and self-directed mid-level SQL/ETL Developer with a minimum of 3 years of ETL development experience to contribute to our innovative projects. The ideal candidate should possess strong communication skills, a solution-oriented mindset, and the ability to excel in a fast-paced Continuous Development Agile Environment.

Responsibilities

ETL Responsibilities (80% of role)

• Manage ETL process, translate complex business requirements into scalable and efficient data solutions.

• Investigate and troubleshoot data and user-related system errors to ensure data integrity.

• Implement ETL processes to extract, transform, and load data from multiple sources into a data warehouse.

AI Data Preparation / Insights (20% of role)

• AI Data Wrangling and Preparation

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• Cleaning, transform, and prepare large and complex datasets.

• Handling missing values, outliers, inconsistencies, and data quality issues.

• Data scaling, normalization, encoding, and feature engineering techniques.

• AI Data Planning to achieve FT’s AI Strategy.

• Applying ML models to our prepared Data to gain insight.

• Augmenting Models with our data to enable achievement of AI strategies.

• Designing, training, evaluating, and deploying ML models, integrating AI solutions into applications, and working with large datasets.

Requirements

Programming Languages and Skills

• Python: Strong proficiency is required. Familiarity with libraries like Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, and potentially others, depending on the domain (e.g., OpenCV for image processing, NLTK/SpaCy for NLP).

• SQL: Excellent skills in writing and optimizing complex SQL queries for data extraction, manipulation, and analysis from relational databases.

• R: experience of R would be a plus, though not a requirement.

• Hands-on experience of the various AWS Database & ETL services, particularly: S3, Python code, Lambda, CloudFormation, and other AWS serverless resources.

• Active participation in Agile teams, collaborating with team members to review user stories, estimate effort, and contribute to sprint reviews.

• Solid understanding of various ML algorithms (supervised, unsupervised, reinforcement learning).

• Experience in training, evaluating, and deploying ML models would be a plus.

• Knowledge of model selection, hyperparameter tuning, and cross-validation techniques.

• Familiarity with ML frameworks and libraries mentioned above.

• 2+ years of experience in a similar ETL role is essential. Exposure to AI ML models and AI data solutions delivery a major plus.

Personal Profile

We are seeking long-term team members who align with our values and can thrive in our distributed Continuous Development Agile Scrum team. Ideal candidates will be:

• Self-directed and self-motivated with a proven ability to deliver results.

• Strong communicators, capable of summarizing key deliverables and meeting daily deadlines.

• Experienced in a fast-paced Agile/Scrum development environment.

• Comfortable working in a distributed development environment with remote colleagues.

• Proven team players.

Remote Minimum Requirements

• Remote Team Experience: 1+ years of experience working in a distributed remote technology team (a plus).

• Candidates must have a reliable high-speed internet connection, fluent written/spoken English, and be located within +/- 6 hours of US Eastern Standard Time.

SQL/ETL Developer

(Remote, Full-Time)