Direct Response Database Developer

Direct Response Database Developer

Department: Technology & Development

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Remote or Hybrid, US

Reporting To: VP, Data Solutions & Campaign Deployment

Compensation: $80,000 - $100,000 / year

The Direct Response Database Developer is a data operations engineer responsible for developing, maintaining, and optimizing reliable, automated, and AI-enabled data pipelines that support direct response fundraising performance. This role ensures that client donor and marketing data moves accurately from ingestion through campaign execution, reporting, and analysis by managing data cleansing, transformation, mapping, validation, and preparation to create timely, trusted, and campaign-ready data assets.

Working within the Campaign Operations function of Data Solutions, the Direct Response Database Developer partners closely with Data Analysts, client teams, and other stakeholders to translate fundraising and direct marketing requirements into scalable data solutions. The role requires strong SQL and relational database expertise, rigorous attention to data quality, and the ability to build increasingly automated processes that power audience segmentation, personalized direct marketing communications, campaign execution, analytics, and actionable fundraising insight.

• Partner with Data Analysts, client teams, and client stakeholders to understand business requirements, campaign objectives, priorities, and data specifications.
• Load, cleanse, transform, and summarize client donor and marketing data in accordance with established data processing standards.
• Develop and maintain SQL queries, stored procedures, views, triggers, and other database objects necessary to support campaign operations and data delivery.
• Customize data mappings, transformations, and business rules based on client requirements and campaign specifications.
• Develop and execute data ingestion and validation processes to ensure client data is complete, accurate, and available according to established timelines.
• Prepare and validate data files used for direct marketing communications, audience segmentation, campaign execution, and other client deliverables.
• Work with complex and large-scale datasets across multiple client environments and data sources.
• Troubleshoot data processing, database, mapping, and file-related issues and implement appropriate resolutions.
• Perform quality assurance and validation of data outputs to ensure adherence to client‑approved business rules and internal standards.
• Participate in peer reviews and desk checks of client deliverables to support data quality and accuracy.
• Support Data Analysts with data preparation for reporting, analysis, visualization, dashboards, and fundraising insights.
• Contribute to project planning by identifying data requirements, dependencies, timelines, milestones, and potential delivery risks.
• Identify opportunities to automate and optimize recurring data processes to improve accuracy, efficiency, scalability, and turnaround times.
• Utilize AI and emerging technologies, where appropriate, to improve data processing, quality assurance, troubleshooting, documentation, and workflow efficiency.
• Maintain appropriate documentation of data processes, mappings, business rules, and technical solutions.

• Bachelor's Degree (BA or BS) in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Management, or a related field.
• 3-5+ years of experience in database development, data processing, data operations, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Experience supporting direct marketing, fundraising, nonprofit, agency, or other data-intensive campaign environments.
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