Data Engineering Lead

Seer Interactive is a digital marketing consultancy that harnesses compassion, data, technology, and AI to make a mark on our communities—our coworkers, our clients, our industry, and our neighbors. We relentlessly pursue (and share) the truth, bringing together millions of data points from quantitative and qualitative sources, enhanced by responsible, human-centered AI. Our purpose is to unlock potential across these communities, envisioning a world where doing the right thing is intuitive and informed.

At Seer, we see AI as a catalyst for innovation, collaboration, and creativity. Regardless of your division or discipline, leveraging AI is a core part of how we deliver smarter, faster, and more strategic outcomes for our clients. Our AI Council drives company-wide integration by focusing on education, purposeful implementation, and continuous learning — ensuring that AI is embedded in how we think, operate, and grow.

If you’re ready to uplift others, challenge your ego, commit to the truth, and be better than yesterday—keep reading.

Seer is a remote-first agency and a Certified B-Corp, with team members across the country. If an office environment is more your style, this position can also sit in our HQ office in Philadelphia. We can only consider candidates based in the US who can work continental US-based hours.

Seer Interactive is a digital marketing consultancy that harnesses compassion, data, technology, and AI to make a mark on our communities—our coworkers, our clients, our industry, and our neighbors. We relentlessly pursue (and share) the truth, bringing together millions of data points from quantitative and qualitative sources, enhanced by responsible, human-centered AI. Our purpose is to unlock potential across these communities, envisioning a world where doing the right thing is intuitive and informed.

At Seer, we see AI as a catalyst for innovation, collaboration, and creativity. Regardless of your division or discipline, leveraging AI is a core part of how we deliver smarter, faster, and more strategic outcomes for our clients. Our AI Council drives company-wide integration by focusing on education, purposeful implementation, and continuous learning — ensuring that AI is embedded in how we think, operate, and grow.

If you’re ready to uplift others, challenge your ego, commit to the truth, and be better than yesterday—keep reading.

Seer is a remote-first agency and a Certified B-Corp, with team members across the country. If an office environment is more your style, this position can also sit in our HQ office in Philadelphia. We can only consider candidates based in the US who can work continental US-based hours.

Role Highlights

• Set the technical direction for Seer’s data platform — define the architecture, the standards, and the roadmap that other engineers build against.

• Architect Seer’s data platform end-to-end across BigQuery, Dataflow, Airflow, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, and Cloud Storage, making the cost, latency, and freshness tradeoffs that let us scale without surprises.

• Set the standard for how we model and serve data, from dbt project structure to LookML, Looker explores, and embedded Looker experiences inside client portals and internal tools.

• Mentor data engineers and analysts across the team — pair on tough problems, lead architectural reviews, leave PR comments that make people better (not just their code), and run the occasional workshop on TDD, git internals, or LLM-augmented engineering.

• Champion engineering practice — TDD, modular Pytest suites, clean Git workflows, and CI/CD pipelines with multi-stage deploys. Make the bar visible, then help everyone meet it.

• Tune what’s expensive: hunt down the slow query, the redundant DAG, the leaky storage policy. Cut BigQuery costs and dashboard load times, and bring the team along with you.

• Leverage tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and prompt-evaluation harnesses to accelerate research, code review, and pipeline development — and design AI-driven workflows that scale Seer’s engineering throughput.

• Document and teach. Write playbooks that survive system evolution, decision records that explain why not just what, and onboarding paths that compound across new hires.

Essential Skills

• A track record of leading through technical authority and mentorship — setting the bar on a data engineering team, raising the level of engineers around you, and earning trust without needing a reporting line to back it up.

• Expert-level fluency across the GCP data stack — BigQuery (partitioning, clustering, materialized views, cost optimization), Dataflow, Airflow, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Datastore, and Cloud Storage — with a track record of architecting production pipelines end-to-end.

• Expert command of the analytics and BI layer — modular dbt projects, reusable LookML, Looker explores and embeds, Looker Studio dashboards that blend CRM and ad data into full-funnel attribution. You write elegant SQL and rewrite tangled SQL even better.

• Expert Python — idiomatic, performant, well-tested. You build modular Pytest suites with custom plugins, treat TDD as default, and have introduced contract or snapshot testing to catch what unit tests miss.

• Expert Git and version control used to unblock teammates. You’ve designed CI/CD pipelines with multi-stage deploys, automated test gates, and production debug discipline.

• Comfort working with AI and LLM tools beyond surface-level usage — crafting layered, context-aware prompts, building evaluation harnesses to compare phrasing and sampling strategies, and integrating LLMs into engineering workflows where they earn their keep.

• Strong project management discipline — comfort with Agile ceremonies that earn their keep, fluency in Wrike (or equivalent) for tracking dependencies and prioritization, and the judgment to change the format when it stops serving the team.

• Communication range — you can brief an SLT stakeholder on a cost-saving initiative and a junior engineer on a tricky rebase in the same afternoon, and both walk away clearer.

This might not be the right role for you if

• You want to lead from the conference room. At Seer, leads stay close to the code.

• Mentorship feels like a tax rather than a craft at Seer, the multiplier effect on the team around you is the job.

• You only feel comfortable leading with a reporting line behind you. This role earns its authority through expertise and trust.

• Marketing context feels foreign or uninteresting to you  at Seer, the why always traces back to a client, a campaign, or a strategist.

• You see AI as a hype distraction rather than a force multiplier worth investing in.

• Time-management, context-switching, and juggling multiple priorities is quite challenging.

• Change management is difficult and you struggle with adapting to new tools and processes.

90 Day Goals

• By Day 30, you will have completed division training, gotten oriented in our GCP and Looker environments, built relationships across the data engineering team, and shipped your first reviewed PR through our CI/CD pipeline.

• By Day 60, you will have led your first architectural decision, owning the design of a new pipeline, model, or platform improvement, mentored engineers through code review and pairing, and supported a cross-functional client initiative.

• By Day 90, you will be up and running at full capacity, owning the technical direction of the data platform, raising the engineering bar across the team, and influencing how Seer builds and operates its data stack end-to-end.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary band for this role is $120,000-130,000

• Your final offered compensation will be determined by your, skills and experience

• Evaluation of comp at least once a year

• Benefit highlights

Ready to apply? Ditch the cover letter — we don’t need it. We’d rather see your AI chops. Use our Marketing Career AI Self-Assessment GPT to find out where you land on the AI marketing maturity curve and share your results with us. Our team is excited to read your application responses and will be using them to help determine who we’d like to meet with!

Have questions about recruitment at Seer? Check out our Custom GPT: Guide to Talent Acquisition at Seer to drop in your questions! You can ask it anything about our hiring process, and how to best prepare for an interview with us.

As a B-Corp Certified organization, we are committed to creating an inclusive environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

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