AI Data Engineer 2

Are you ready to make a significant impact within a leading global organization that drives innovation in technology and critical infrastructure? Our client, a pioneer in delivering cutting-edge solutions, is seeking a talented individual to join their team. This is an incredible opportunity to leverage your expertise in data engineering and reporting to provide crucial insights that shape strategic decisions and optimize large-scale operational initiatives. As a key contributor, you will empower leadership with clear, actionable data, directly influencing the efficiency and predictability of complex projects across their expansive operational footprint. Partnering with Aquent, you'll step into a role where your work directly translates into enhanced visibility, streamlined processes, and a stronger data-driven culture.

This dynamic role focuses on developing and maintaining advanced reporting and business intelligence solutions that provide end-to-end visibility into critical infrastructure initiative delivery. You will be instrumental in transforming complex milestone, risk, dependency, and implementation data into clear, actionable dashboards. Your work will directly inform execution, governance readiness, and leadership decision-making, ensuring consistent and trusted reporting across initiatives, regions, and programs. By constructing and maintaining robust data pipelines, ETL processes, and data models, you will ensure data reliability, scalability, and accessibility, significantly reducing manual reporting efforts and improving operational rigor.

**Key Responsibilities:**

* **Reporting Solutions Development:**

* Develop and maintain robust dashboards and reporting tools that provide comprehensive visibility into initiative health, including milestones, schedule adherence, risks, dependencies, and readiness.

* Design and develop advanced project management and work item tracking systems to model and report on initiative work items, delivery plans, and execution status throughout the initiative lifecycle.

* Transform initiative data to clearly illustrate the impact of initiatives on critical operational sites and timelines.

* Design reporting frameworks and data models that enable seamless rollups from individual initiatives to program- and portfolio-level views for leadership.

* **Data Engineering & ETL:**

* Design, implement, automate, and maintain ETL processes that extract, transform, and load data from various sources into reporting datasets.

* Write and maintain logical and physical data models to support scalable, repeatable reporting.

* Modify and optimize existing data structures and pipelines to improve performance, accuracy, and usability.

* Test data pipelines and reporting outputs, troubleshoot issues, and implement corrections as needed.

* **Standardization, Governance & Quality:**

* Ensure data quality, consistency, and governance, including validation of system configurations, metric definitions, and reporting logic.

* Partner with tooling and engineering teams to ensure alignment with enterprise standards, best practices, and compliance requirements.

* Support governance and leadership reviews by producing executive-ready dashboards and summaries that clearly communicate delivery status, risks, and decision points.

* **Collaboration & Communication:**

* Partner closely with Initiative Delivery and Portfolio Efficiency PMs.

* Work with senior management, technical teams, and stakeholders to determine data requirements and reporting approaches.

* Translate complex delivery and operational data into clear narratives for both technical and non-technical audiences.

* Continuously improve reporting solutions based on feedback from delivery teams, governance partners, and operational leadership.

**Required Qualifications:**

* Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering, or a related field.

* 2-4 years of applicable experience, specifically in developing advanced data management and business intelligence solutions.

* Experience with database technologies.

* Knowledge of the ETL process.

* Knowledge of at least one scripting language.

* Strong written and oral communication skills.

* Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

* Demonstrated history of success in previous roles.

* A strong desire to work with data and help businesses make better data-driven decisions.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

* Preference for knowledge of data analysis expression languages.

**About Aquent Talent:**

Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world's biggest brands.

Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. More information on our awesome benefits!

Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We're about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.