CDP Data Engineer

Information Security Responsibilities

• Promote and enforce awareness of key information security practices, including acceptable use of information assets, malware protection, and password security protocols.
• Identify, assess, and report security risks, focusing on how these risks impact the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets.
• Understand and evaluate how data is stored, processed, or transmitted, ensuring compliance with data privacy and protection standards (GDPR, CCPA, etc.).
• Ensure data protection measures are integrated throughout the information lifecycle to safeguard sensitive information.

Role and Responsibilities

• Refine, implement, configure, and maintain XDM schemas, datasets, and dataset mappings within Adobe AEP and RTCDP.
• Implement and transform data using ingestion pipelines including batch, streaming, SDK and API, ensuring all adhere to architectural and privacy standards and real-world data mappings.
• Work with the Solution Architect to implement data transformations, data prep rules, and identity stitching logic.
• Enable datasets for Profile, ensuring data quality, completeness, and consistency.
• Build and maintain identity resolution frameworks, including namespaces, linkages, and profile merging.
• Assist with segmentation readiness by validating attributes, events, audiences, and identity availability.
• Configure destination connectors and support activation flows across marketing and analytics ecosystems.
• Develop and execute data validation processes including anomaly detection, schema validation, and identity checks.
• Troubleshoot ingestion failures, mapping errors, identity conflicts, and segmentation issues.
• Maintain documentation for data flows, datasets, mappings, and governance controls.
• Configure and manage AEP sandboxes for development, testing, and production environments.
• Partner with privacy and governance teams to implement role based access, consent management, and compliance workflows.
• Work with Consultants, Data Scientists, and Analysts to write queries and enable segmentation, reporting, and ML model readiness.
• Integrate RTCDP with downstream systems for activation across marketing, analytics, and personalization platforms.
• Assist marketing activation teams in ensuring proper data availability for audiences and personalization.
• Support CDP Architect in designing scalable, governed data models and ingestion frameworks.
• Contribute to continuous improvements in CDP automation, process efficiency, and operational best practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3 to 5 or more years of experience in data engineering, MarTech engineering, or CDP operations.
• 2 or more years of hands-on Adobe RTCDP experience, including ingestion, transformation, identity resolution, and activation.
• Working knowledge of core Adobe services, such as Adobe Source Connectors, Streaming & Batch Ingestion, Data Prep and Query Service.
• Strong understanding of XDM schemas, dataset configuration, and Profile enablement.
• Proficiency in SQL and familiarity with ETL or ELT processing, data pipelines, and cloud based data platforms.
• Experience with APIs, Adobe I/O Runtime, Web SDK, and streaming data ingestion.
• Proficient in programming languages such as Python, JavaScript, or SQL.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience with Snowflake, Salesforce CDP, Segment, Redshift, or BigQuery is a plus.
• Working knowledge of consent, privacy, and data governance structures including GDPR and CCPA.
• Experience in Adobe Experience Cloud (AJO, Analytics, Target) is preferred but not required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.