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# Lead Data Engineer

- **Company:** Colgate Palmolive
- **Location:** Piscataway, NJ, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $110,000.0 - $150,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Adobe Experience Manager, Agile Methodology, Airflow, Data Analysis, BigQuery, Cloud Computing, Customer Data Management, Data Integration, Middleware, Google Analytics, Automation of Marketing, Salesforce.Com, SAP (Applications), Google Cloud, Apigee, Information Technology, Google Cloud Functions, Api Gateway
- **Published:** October 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=29b8e09622afed26

## About the Role

We are seeking a highly motivated individual to join our team and help bring our vision to life. The ideal candidate is passionate about understanding business goals and translating them into high-quality solutions that deliver performance, maintainability, and scalability-leveraging leading cloud-based marketing technologies to drive digital connection. In this role, you will partner closely with our Digital Marketing and Product teams (both technical and commercial) to deliver technology solutions to meet business objectives and deploy best-in-class technology that optimizes and scales our digital engagement programs, enabling better targeting, deeper engagement, and higher conversion among professionals, customers, and consumers. The successful candidate is highly customer-focused and able to work effectively both independently and as part of a collaborative team., * Bachelor's degree
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6+ years of IT experience with minimum of 4 years of implementation and support experience with Salesforce Marketing Cloud / Marketing Automation experience and Salesforce Data Cloud/Data 360
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4+ years data integration development experience, * Experience with Google Cloud Platform including Big Query, and Apache Airflow, Cloud Functions, Apigee/API gateway, and middleware development
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Hands-on platform experience on Salesforce Data Cloud, and/or other CDP ecosystem platforms
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Experience leveraging and implementing additional marketing technology including Google Analytics 4 and SAP Customer Data Cloud (Gigya)
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Experience leading large full-lifecycle implementations and/or implementing integrated solutions including other SFMC ecosystem technologies, cloud-based marketing solutions, integration services and data modeling
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Excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as customer relationship building skills
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Strong organization skills with the ability to navigate between complex projects with many stakeholders.

 * Ability to apply agile methodology and sprint development to manage project implementations and backlogs

## Description

We are excited to invite applications for the position of Lead Data Engineer within our Global Digital Applications Team. Operating within the world's leading oral care company, we leverage best-in-class, cloud-based marketing technology to create seamless digital connections with our audiences. This role partners closely with our Digital Marketing and CRM teams to deploy advanced technologies that optimize and scale our digital engagement programs-driving more precise targeting and deeper engagement with professionals, customers, and consumers., * Serve as the expert, lead Data Cloud architect of end-to-end customer experience and marketing solutions. Define best practices and ensure adherence by technical and business teams
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Own the technical implementation of the global consumer and professional data models, including its implementation, expansion, and ongoing changes. Partner closely with the Global Digital team to define standards and secure approvals, ensuring consistency, scalability, and governance across all markets
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Drive business outcomes by leveraging key platforms, including Salesforce, GCP, SAP CDC, and Adobe Experience Manager across consumer and professional environments.
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Develop fully linked marketing automation capabilities to support user adoption, engagement and success, drive adoption, and define KPIs
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Perform data analysis, data modeling and ingest relevant first party data to further develop and identify new audience targets, Our journey begins with our people-developing strong talent with diverse backgrounds and perspectives to best serve our consumers around the world and fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels a true sense of belonging. We are dedicated to ensuring that each individual can be their authentic self, is treated with respect, and is empowered by leadership to contribute meaningfully to our business.