Data Engineering Technical Lead (Salesforce)

Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Salary: $171,500–$240,000 annually in Chicago, with potential pay up to $274,500.

Company

hirify.global is a global travel company connecting travelers, partners, and advertisers through consumer brands, B2B services, and travel advertising.

What you will do

• Lead end-to-end Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Salesforce Data Cloud initiatives for B2B partner marketing.
• Architect data models, identity resolution rules, unified profiles, and a knowledge graph connecting partner, property, contact, and campaign entities.
• Design and operate batch and streaming ETL/ELT pipelines, APIs, data services, and orchestration workflows.
• Build zero-copy integrations between Salesforce Data Cloud and external data lakes such as AWS and EGDL.
• Integrate AI and LLM capabilities into marketing workflows, including enrichment, classification, content generation, and agentic automation.
• Set platform reliability standards, review designs and pull requests, mentor engineers, and coordinate with marketing, data science, and Salesforce stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 10+ years building and operating enterprise software platforms, including hands-on Salesforce Data Cloud, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, or comparable MarTech experience.
• Strong SQL and data engineering skills, with 5+ years of programming experience in Python, Java, or Scala.
• Experience with AWS services, cloud data warehouses, Spark, Kafka or SQS, Airflow, dbt, and large-scale data modeling.
• Experience with LLMs and GenAI services, including prompt design, RAG, vector stores, output evaluation, and agentic AI development.
• Experience leading complex technical projects independently and mentoring engineers.

Nice to have

• Experience migrating from Marketo, Message Gears, or similar platforms to Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
• Experience with zero-copy data architecture, knowledge graphs, ontology design, entity resolution, and graph databases.
• Experience with Salesforce metadata CI/CD, B2B marketing platforms, audience segmentation, data governance, and Salesforce certifications.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Paid time off and an Employee Assistance Program.
• Wellness and travel reimbursement.
• Travel discounts and IATAN membership.
• Inclusive and accessible recruiting experience with accommodation support.