Lead Data Engineer

Colgate-Palmolive is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to support its Global Digital Applications Team and help shape customer and marketing data solutions in a hybrid environment based in Piscataway, NJ. In this role, you will partner with Digital Marketing and CRM teams to architect and implement end-to-end data capabilities that enable audience targeting and engagement.

The position focuses on Salesforce and cloud-based platforms, including customer data and marketing automation foundations across consumer and professional environments. You will lead architecture and delivery for global data models, governance practices, and first-party data analysis to drive measurable business outcomes.

What You’ll Do

• Act as the expert and lead Data Cloud architect for end-to-end customer experience and marketing solutions, defining best practices and ensuring technical and business teams adhere to them.
• Own the technical implementation of global consumer and professional data models, including implementation, expansion, and ongoing changes, while partnering with the Global Digital team to set standards and secure approvals for consistency, scalability, and governance across markets.
• Deliver business outcomes by leveraging key platforms, including Salesforce, GCP, SAP CDC, and Adobe Experience Manager across consumer and professional environments.
• Build fully linked marketing automation capabilities to support user adoption, engagement, and success, including defining KPIs.
• Conduct data analysis and data modeling, and ingest relevant first-party data to develop and identify new audience targets.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• 6+ years of IT experience, with a minimum of 4 years of implementation and support experience involving Salesforce Marketing Cloud / Marketing Automation and Salesforce Data Cloud/Data 360.
• 4+ years of data integration development experience

Technologies and Platforms

• Salesforce, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Salesforce Data Cloud, Salesforce Data 360
• GCP (including Big Query)
• SAP CDC
• Adobe Experience Manager
• Apache Airflow, Cloud Functions, Apigee/API gateway, and middleware development
• CDP ecosystem platforms, integration services, and data modeling
• Google Analytics 4
• SAP Customer Data Cloud (Gigya)
• SFMC ecosystem technologies and Agile methodology

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision
• Basic life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Disability coverage
• Participation in the 401(k) retirement plan with company matching contributions (subject to eligibility requirements)
• Minimum of 15 vacation/PTO days (hourly employees receive a minimum of 120 hours)
• 13 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave adjusted based on role and location in accordance with local laws

Compensation: USD 110,000 - 150,000 per year.