Customer & Marketing Data Engineering Manager

Job Description

Position Details

• 6-month contract-to-hire

• Hybrid work environment (can start remote, upon conversion must be able to relocate to Springfield, Missouri).

• This position does NOT provide visa sponsorship. 

Are you a strategic digital marketing leader who also loves solving technical problems? Do you thrive at the intersection of marketing, data, and engineering? We're looking for a Customer & Digital Marketing Engineering Manager to drive data-powered marketing innovation for our client’s rapidly evolving IT organization.

This hybrid role blends marketing strategy, customer analytics, and hands-on engineering leadership—perfect for someone who can bridge business priorities with technical execution to deliver measurable growth.

Why This Role Is Exciting

• You’ll shape how the organization understands and engages customers across channels.

• You’ll lead a small but impactful engineering team building the data backbone that powers modern marketing.

• You’ll modernize legacy systems, introduce new technologies, and directly influence digital strategy.

• Your work will have clear visibility with Marketing, Data Strategy, and executive leadership.

What You’ll Do

Marketing & Strategy

• Build and execute data-driven digital marketing strategies that boost customer acquisition, retention, and engagement.

• Analyze customer behavior, campaign performance, and conversion data—turning insights into action.

• Partner with Marketing and Data teams to enable personalization, targeting, and unified reporting.

• Optimize digital channels (email, social, web) to improve ROI and customer experiences.

• Integrate CRM, analytics, and marketing automation tools into enterprise data platforms.

Engineering & Technical Leadership

• Lead and mentor a cross-functional team of data engineers, BI developers, and analysts.

• Oversee the development of scalable data pipelines, integrations, and analytics infrastructure (Snowflake, dbt, Airflow).

• Roll up your sleeves to help design data models, review workflows, and troubleshoot complex technical challenges.

• Modernize outdated systems and implement forward-looking data architectures.

• Align engineering and marketing roadmaps to ensure technology fuels business outcomes.

• Establish best practices around CI/CD, data quality, documentation, and automation.

What You Bring

• 10+ years in digital marketing, data analytics, or data engineering, with 4+ years in a leadership role.

• Expertise with modern marketing and data technologies:
  Snowflake, SQL, Python, dbt, Airflow, Google Analytics, Tableau, Power BI.

• Strong background in connecting MarTech ecosystems (CRM, automation, attribution tools) to enterprise data platforms.

• Ability to turn marketing goals into clear technical plans and measurable results.

• Exceptional communication skills and comfort working across technical, marketing, and executive teams.

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Data Analytics, or related field.

Bonus Points For

• Experience with Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, and marketing attribution.

• Familiarity with HubSpot, Marketo, or Salesforce Marketing Cloud.

• Hands-on cloud experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and CI/CD practices.

• Strong SQL/Python for analysis and automation.

• Experience running A/B or multivariate experiments.

• Industry experience in retail, e-commerce, or automotive.