Sr Data Engineer

About TEGNA

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.

TEGNA is seeking an experienced Sr. Data Engineer to architect and build the data foundation powering AI-driven sales automation. You'll own end-to-end data systems that will enable intelligent prospect scoring, enrichment, routing, and conversion optimization—directly impacting revenue growth across our sales organization.

This role requires deep AWS expertise, strong architectural vision, and the ability to bridge technical execution with business strategy. It will require you to collaborate with cross-functional teams like Sales, Marketing, Revenue Operations, Data Science, and Platform Engineering to provide technical expertise while meeting the business and enterprise needs.

Responsibilities:

Architecture & Ownership
1. Own end-to-end data architecture and pipeline design supporting AI-driven lead scoring, enrichment, routing, and conversion optimization across the sales funnel
2. Coordinate and articulate architecture best practices; propose solutions that balance innovation, security, and operational excellence
3. Partner with AI Product Lead and Salesforce Lead to define data contracts, SLAs, and integration patterns between data platform, AI services, and CRM systems
4. Gather business and functional requirements; translate them into robust, scalable, operable solutions with flexible data architectures

Delivery & Operations
1. Design and build scalable, secure ELT/ETL pipelines across first- and third-party sources (web, ad platforms, MAP, CRM, SDR tools, enrichment providers)
2. Implement real-time and batch data ingestion using best practices in data modeling and modern cloud/big data tools
3. Create analytics-ready models and build dashboards for stakeholders
4. Design and maintain auditable, reproducible environments across dev/stage/prod

Leadership & Collaboration
1. Mentor junior engineers; set standards for code quality, reviews, documentation, and secure-by-design implementations
2. Proactively identify, troubleshoot, and resolve strategic issues that may impair technical or business goals
3. Communicate complex technical topics to sales, marketing, and executive stakeholders; translate business goals into reliable data and ML systems
4. Work closely with InfoSec and Tegna infrastructure teams to ensure compliance, security, and alignment with enterprise standards

Requirements:
1. Deep experience designing and managing modern data stacks on AWS (Azure/GCP experience a plus)
2. Hands-on expertise with:
a. Storage/Compute: S3, Lake Formation, Glue, Athena, Redshift, Aurora, Snowflake, or BigQuery
b. Orchestration: AWS Step Functions, Glue Workflows, Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect
c. Streaming: Kinesis, Kafka/MSK, or Pub/Sub for near-real-time lead events
d. Serverless/Event-Driven: Lambda or Cloud Functions
3. Data Engineering Excellence
a. Proven ability to implement data ingestion routines (real-time and batch) using best practices in ETL/ELT and data modeling
b. Experience building maintainable, auditable, and reproducible data environments
c. Strong understanding of API-first interfaces and data products with clear versioning and separation of concerns
4. Experience productionizing ML workflows with robust MLOps practices:
a. Feature stores, model training/registry/deployment
b. A/B testing and champion–challenger setups
c. Drift detection, retraining strategies
d. Lineage and reproducibility
5. Infrastructure as Code & DevOps
a. Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for reproducible environments across stages
b. Experience enforcing GitOps workflows and CI/CD pipelines
c. Commitment to secure-by-design principles and operational excellence

Soft Skills
1. Ability to own, coordinate, and articulate architectural decisions to technical and non-technical audiences
2. Strong collaboration skills; comfortable working across InfoSec, infrastructure, product, and business teams
3. Strategic mindset with ability to balance immediate needs and long-term scalability

Preferred Qualifications
1. Experience integrating with Salesforce or similar CRM platforms
2. Background in sales tech stack (MAP, SDR tools, enrichment providers)
3. Prior work in media, advertising, or B2B sales environments

Benefits:

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 appointments with a physician through Teladoc, and 12 free annual therapy sessions with a licensed clinician through Spring Health.

TEGNA offers a generous Paid Time Off (PTO) benefit as well as nine paid holidays per year.

* Some jobs are covered by a collective bargaining agreement and thus some or all of the benefits described herein may not apply. For example, some newsroom bargaining unit employees receive health and retirement benefits under plans administered by the union.

EEO statement :

TEGNA Inc. is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, hiring and developing individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences to add to our collaborative culture. We value and consider applications from all qualified candidates without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family responsibilities, disability, medical condition, enrollment in college or vocational school, political affiliation, military or veteran status, citizenship status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. TEGNA will reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable law. If you are in need of an accommodation in order to submit your application, please email [email protected]

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Recruiters or Hiring Managers will never request payments, ask for financial account information or sensitive information such as social security numbers.