Sr. Data Engineer, Consumer

TEGNA Inc. (NYSE: TGNA) helps people thrive in their local communities by providing the trusted local news and services that matter most. With 64 television stations in 51 U.S. markets, TEGNA reaches more than 100 million people monthly across the web, mobile apps, streaming, and linear television. Together, we are building a sustainable future for local news.

We are hiring a Senior Data Engineer, Consumer to join our team! This is a hands-on technical leader responsible for the design, development and optimization of our enterprise-grade customer data platform (CDP). This role is critical in designing the foundational systems that leverage large-scale, real-time consumer data to power analytics, personalization‑/recommendation, and marketing activation. This position requires close collaboration with data science, product and marketing teams.

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and reliable data pipelines for ingesting, processing, and transforming large volumes of consumer data (Batch and Streaming).
• Own and evolve the consumer data model and architecture, ensuring performance, quality, and extensibility.
• Design and implement robust, scalable data models (dimensional, relational, graph) within our Snowflake data warehouse to support analytics and activation use cases.
• Collaborate with Data Science teams to implement recommendation systems, supporting machine learning models with efficient data pipelines and infrastructure.
• Design and implement identity resolution frameworks to create unified consumer profiles across multiple data sources and touchpoints.
• Work with cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and modern data stack tools (e.g., Airflow, dbt, Snowflake, Big Query, Databricks).
• Lead the evaluation of emerging technologies and propose scalable solutions to enhance platform capabilities.
• Establish and champion best practices for software engineering, data engineering, and system design within the team.
• Ensure the platform's scalability, reliability, performance, security, and cost-efficiency are architected from the ground up.
• Mentor and provide deep technical guidance to a high-performing team of data and platform specialists located globally.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a similar field (combination of education and relevant experience may be substituted).
• 10+ years of progressive experience in designing, building, and managing large-scale data platforms and distributed systems.
• Deep technical understanding and hands‑on architectural experience with data warehousing solutions (Snowflake), data lake architectures, and big data technologies (Spark).
• Proven expertise in advanced data modeling, real‑time data processing using technologies like Kafka or Kinesis, and event‑driven architecture.
• Expert‑level proficiency in programming languages (Python, Scala) and SQL.
• Hands‑on experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and building CI/CD pipelines for data infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of identity resolution methodologies and privacy‑enhancing technologies.

• Experience with specific CDP platforms (Rudder Stack) and the broader Mar Tech stack (Braze, Kochava, Amplitude).
• Experience with in the OTT media, streaming platforms, and viewer behavior analytics domains.
• Relevant Certifications in cloud platforms (AWS, Snowflake). #LI-MS1

TEGNA offers comprehensive benefits designed to safeguard the physical, mental and financial health of our employees and their families. TEGNA offers two medical plan options for full and part‑time employees through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, as well as access to dental and eye care coverage; fertility, surrogacy and adoption assistance; disability and life insurance.

Our 401(k) program offers full, part‑time and temporary employees the opportunity to contribute 1% – 80% of their pay on a pre‑tax basis to TEGNA’s 401(k). Contributions made up to the first 4% of pay are eligible for a 100% match from the company and are 100% vested from day one.

Regardless of participation in TEGNA medical plans, ALL employees and their eligible family members receive nine free virtual doctor’s…