About the Role
The Data Engineer builds and maintains data pipelines, models, and real-time streams foundational to 7-Eleven’s Marketing Technology (MarTech) personalization, decisioning, and measurement capabilities. This role ensures Customer 360 (C360) is a reliable single source of truth, engineers batch and event-driven pipelines, and delivers governed customer attributes to activation platforms, directly enabling timely, accurate, and compliant use of customer data across marketing channels.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate scalable batch and real-time data pipelines in Databricks and related tooling to support audience, personalization, and measurement use cases.
- Engineer event-driven streaming (e.g., Kafka) for loyalty, pump, and transaction events to enable near-real-time personalization.
- Build and maintain the Customer 360 data model, feature/attribute pipelines, and promotion/offer data feeds to decisioning systems.
- Implement data-quality validation, monitoring, and change management so segments, flags, and attributes are accurate and trustworthy.
- Deliver governed customer attributes and audiences to activation platforms (e.g., Hightouch, Salesforce Marketing Cloud) with clear ownership and documentation.
- Partner with data science to productionize model features and with architecture to align on data contracts and identity resolution.
- Support privacy and compliance requirements across all data flows.
Requirements
- 4+ years of relevant work experience.
- Databricks or cloud (AWS/Azure) certifications preferred.
Skills
- Strong SQL
- Proficiency in a programming language for data engineering (e.g., Python or Scala)
- Hands-on experience with Databricks/Spark, data lake/warehouse design, and pipeline orchestration.
- Experience with real-time/streaming data (e.g., Kafka) and event-driven architectures.
- Experience with reverse-ETL/activation and identity resolution (e.g., Hightouch, LiveRamp/UID2) is a plus.
- Understanding of data modeling, data quality, governance, and change management.
- Familiarity with marketing/customer data concepts (C360, RFM, LTV, loyalty) and compliant handling of PII.
Experience Level
- 4+ years
Education Level
- Bachelors/4 Yr Degree
Benefits
- General description of all benefits 7-Eleven is offering in the US for the position.
- General description of all benefits 7-Eleven is offering in Canada for the position.
About the Company
- 7-Eleven is an iconic family of brands with over 86,000 locations, surpassing every retailer in the world.
- We revolutionize convenience, restaurants and fuel through cutting edge innovation — working hard to be the customer's first choice.
- 7-Eleven empowers our employees to "activate awesome" and make a meaningful impact in their stores and communities every day.
- If you're ready to grow, lead and make a difference, come join our team and help shape the future of convenience.
