Lead Data Engineer

No Relocation Assistance Offered Job Number #176646 - Piscataway, New Jersey, United States Who We Are Colgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company operating in over 200 countries specializing in Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care, Skin Care, and Pet Nutrition. Our products are trusted in more households than any other brand in the world, making us a household name!

Join Colgate-Palmolive, a caring, innovative growth company reimagining a healthier future for people, their pets, and our planet. Guided by our core values—Caring, Inclusive, and Courageous—we foster a culture that inspires our people to achieve common goals. Together, let's build a brighter, healthier future for all.

We are excited to invite applications for the position of Lead Data Engineer  within our Global Digital Applications Team. Operating within the world’s leading oral care company, we leverage best‑in‑class, cloud‑based marketing technology to create seamless digital connections with our audiences. This role partners closely with our Digital Marketing and CRM teams to deploy advanced technologies that optimize and scale our digital engagement programs—driving more precise targeting and deeper engagement with professionals, customers, and consumers.

We are seeking a highly motivated individual to join our team and help bring our vision to life. The ideal candidate is passionate about understanding business goals and translating them into high-quality solutions that deliver performance, maintainability, and scalability—leveraging leading cloud-based marketing technologies to drive digital connection.  In this role, you  will partner closely with our Digital Marketing and Product teams (both technical and commercial) to deliver technology solutions to meet business objectives and deploy best-in-class technology that optimizes and scales our digital engagement programs, enabling better targeting, deeper engagement, and higher conversion among professionals, customers, and consumers.  

The successful candidate is highly customer-focused and able to work effectively both independently and as part of a collaborative team.

This position is based out of the Piscataway, NJ location. Work visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

What you'll do:

Serve as the expert, lead Data Cloud architect of end-to-end customer experience and marketing solutions. Define best practices and ensure adherence by technical and business teams

Own the technical implementation of the global consumer and professional data models, including its implementation, expansion, and ongoing changes. Partner closely with the Global Digital team to define standards and secure approvals, ensuring consistency, scalability, and governance across all markets

Drive business outcomes by leveraging key platforms, including Salesforce, GCP, SAP CDC, and Adobe Experience Manager across consumer and professional environments.

Develop fully linked marketing automation capabilities to support user adoption, engagement and success, drive adoption, and define KPIsPerform data analysis, data modeling and ingest relevant first party data to further develop and identify new audience targets

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree6+ years of IT experience with minimum of 4 years of implementation and support experience with Salesforce Marketing Cloud / Marketing Automation experience and Salesforce Data Cloud/Data 3604+ years data integration development experience

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with Google Cloud Platform including Big Query, and Apache Airflow, Cloud Functions, Apigee/API gateway, and middleware development

Hands-on platform experience on Salesforce Data Cloud, and/or other CDP ecosystem platforms

Experience leveraging and…