Job Overview
The Barrington Media Group Business Intelligence & Technology department is looking for a savvy Data Engineering Manager to join our growing team. The hire will be responsible for playing a lead role in building and maintaining Barrington Media Group’s data infrastructure, including pipelines, databases, and data warehouses.
The Data Engineering Manager will support our developers, analysts, and media buy team on analytics, data initiatives, and will ensure that data architecture is consistent throughout ongoing campaigns/projects. They must be self-directed and comfortable supporting the data needs of multiple teams, systems, and products.
The ideal candidate will provide leadership to a team of data engineers, helping to coach and develop the data initiatives of the Business Intelligence & Technology department.
Responsibilities
- Direct all aspects of the data operations work stream including managing and mentoring junior team members, establishing processes and protocols for team-work flow, and work prioritization.
- Own the data quality processes, leading the effort to create systems for vetting new data sets and ensuring data quality of regularly ingested data sets.
- Expand and optimize data schemas and database technology for scale.
- Work closely with the product team and other internal data consumers to ensure accuracy and availability of data.
- Play a lead role in building the infrastructure for processing data from many different sources.
- Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, and re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability.
- Work with stakeholders including the Analyst & Media teams to develop a strategic plan that addresses their analytics and data needs.
Desired Skills & Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in a data-focused field (e.g. engineering, math, statistics, economics, finance) or equivalent experience.
- 4+ years’ experience with SQL and Python programming languages.
- Experience managing an operations function in support of data and analytics.
- Experience managing a team of engineers in a project or direct supervisory role.
- Strong working knowledge of commonly used third-party data tools that facilitate ETL processes.
- Basic understanding of object-oriented programming, analytic algorithms, and visualization layouts.
- Strong analytical skills related to working with unstructured datasets.
- Experience working in an agile environment.
- Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment.
- Effective communication skills, project management experience, and a deep understanding of how to operationalize analytics/data efforts.
To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:
- Dealing with Ambiguity – Effectively copes with change; ability to shift gears; can decide and act without having the total picture; embraces when things are up in the air.
- Curiosity – Possess a high level of intellectual curiosity.
- Fast-paced – Must thrive in a fast-paced environment.
- Functional/Technical Skills – Has the functional and technical skills to do the job at a high level of accomplishment.
- Informing – Provides information people need to know to do their jobs; provides individuals information so that they can make accurate decisions; is timely with information.
- Learning on the Fly – Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes success and failures as clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.
- Listening – Practices attentive and active listening; has the patience to hear people out; can accurately restate the opinions of others even when he/she disagrees.
- Skilled – Can marshal resources (people, funding, material or support) to get things done; can orchestrate multiple activities at once to accomplish a goal; uses resources effectively and efficiently; arranges information and files in a useful manner.
- Teamwork – Demonstrates teamwork skills, including mentoring and developing junior staff.
- Thought Partner – Ability to be a strong thought-partner to cross-functional colleagues.
About Us
Barrington Media Group is a high-growth, private equity backed, tech enabled marketing agency that specializes in direct response advertisements across TV, audio, digital and direct mail. Through recent acquisitions, BMG has expanded our offerings and capabilities and has become a direct response powerhouse. Our data-driven systems deliver fixed cost leads enabling our clients to grow their businesses rapidly with minimal risk. From creative development to analytics, media strategy to revenue optimization, BMG has the expertise and knowledge to fit together all of the pieces of a successful direct response campaign and deliver powerful and profitable results.
Why BMG?
BMG has been a leader in the industry for over 18 years. While our growth over the past few years has been extraordinary, this opportunity will enable the candidate have a seat at the table and play an integral role in catalyzing this growth. While all of that might sound great, we truly pride ourselves on fostering a fun, fast-paced environment where employees are trusted and professional growth is supported. At BMG you’ll have the opportunity to work as part of a close-knit, entrepreneurial team.
