Merkle Cardinal Path, part of Dentsu Aegis Network, is a leading digital analytics and digital marketing firm focused on delivering insight, understanding, and outcomes that create a competitive advantage for our clients. We engage at the strategic, business, and technical levels to generate tangible and quantifiable value for our partners. Merkle Cardinal Path’s mission is: To know. To Share. To be our Partners’ competitive advantage. And our company culture reflects the importance of our people's expertise, wellness, and happiness in everything we do. 

Merkle Cardinal Path is rapidly expanding its Google Marketing Platform strategy with our clients, including media strategy, activation, platform management, analytics, and managed services to deliver transformational outcomes.

"Remote Opportunity" from USA or Canada

The Manager, Data Science role will have proven expertise in system architecture, database design, data integrations, and be an expert in SQL and Python. Experience with delivering in big data platforms such as Google BigQuery, Microsoft Azure SQL DB/Synapse, or Amazon Redshift is essential. Expertise with traditional RDBMS platforms such as SQL Server or Oracle and NoSQL and Hadoop environments would complement. Data integration experience using ETL platforms such as AirFlow, Talend, Alteryx, or Fivetran is critical. A Manager, Data Science will be expected to manage a team as well as assist in defining and developing service offerings related to their subject matter expertise. They must also define and uphold best practices in managing development and data operations, including pipeline design and long term support, quality assurance testing, ad-hoc support management, and more.

Experience in the digital data and analytic ecosystem and intermediate knowledge in Web Analytic tools (Google Analytics or the Adobe Marketing Cloud), and API expertise is a requirement for this role.

●    Manage a team of data science professionals, providing administrative support and mentorship

●    Collaborate with other teams and project leaders to help manage team workload and outcomes

●    Act as primary consultant to clients for data engineering services, managing the client relationship and coordinating across other support and consultant roles

●    Estimate projects involving data integration, data architecture, business analysis or application development and collaborate with sales and client success teams to grow accounts

●    Participate in product roadmap discussions and identifying key areas for improvement of products and services

●    Collect client project requirements, focusing on needs & impacts and necessary technical outcomes

●    Create solution designs to solve for clients business and technical needs while keeping within budget

●    Produce documentation of data pipeline design and solution architecture for data warehousing and ETL, following Cardinal Path's documentation standards

●    Create datasets, extracts, or views of data that will be consumed by teams of analysts and data scientists to support data mining, analytics, reporting, and dashboards

●    Develop, implement, and support methodologies, standards, and tools for data management, considering innovation and data security

●    Create ongoing standards and process for overall data architecture team, including developing governance, support and testing models

●    Perform exploratory data validation with analysts to ensure quality data standards are in place and ensure data integrity during all transformation steps.

●     Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Business Analytics or related field quantitative field, required with a minimum of 3-5 years experience with database development

●     Experience with cloud / big data technologies such as BigQuery, Azure SQL DB/Synapse, Amazon Redshift is required

●     Experience with relational database systems including SQL Server, Oracle, MySql, Postgres

●     3+ years experience building production-ready data pipelines including multiple data sources and using advanced ETL production technology and techniques (Dataflow, Dataproc, Apache Spark, Hadoop, Databricks, Talend, etc.)

●     Experience managing a team or acting as a team lead for data science or data engineering resources

●     Advanced skills in data scripting and database development technologies (SQL, Python, R)

●     3+ years experience working specifically with digital marketing, advertising and ecommerce data

●     3+ years experience with web analytics tools such as Adobe Marketing Cloud or Google Analytics

●     Experience with optimizing BI or visualization tools such as Tableau, Looker, DOMO or Power BI

●     Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud

●     Familiar with NoSql database technologies such as MongoDB

●     Knowledge of technologies such as Spark, Hadoop, and Airflow

Cardinal Path leverages digital analytics and digital marketing to deliver insight, understanding and outcomes that create competitive advantage for our clients. We engage at the strategic, business, and technical level to generate tangible and quantifiable value for our partners.

Our company is an equal opportunity employer; applicants are considered for all roles without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, marital, parental, veteran or military status, unfavorable military discharge, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

We know through experience that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds foster a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better business results. We strive to create workplaces that reflect the clients we serve and where everyone feels empowered to bring their full, authentic selves to work. We are committed to working with our candidates from all ability levels throughout the recruitment process to ensure that they have what they need to be at their best. If you need accommodation during the application or interview process, please contact [email protected] or to begin a conversation about your individual accessibility needs throughout the hiring process.

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