Senior Data Engineer

  • Cox Automotive
  • Austin, Texas
  • 09/12/2026
Full time Information Technology Telecommunications

Job Description

Cox Automotive is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design and build scalable data pipelines powering products across brands like Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book. You will architect cloud-based data platforms, optimize data models for analytics and machine learning, and ensure data quality, reliability, and security in a high-volume telecommunications and media environment. Partner with data scientists, product, and engineering teams to deliver performant, well-documented solutions that support real-time insights, experimentation, and reporting for global automotive customers.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable batch and streaming data pipelines
  • Architect and optimize cloud-based data platforms and warehouses
  • Develop reliable ETL/ELT processes and data models for analytics and MLEnsure data quality, governance, security, and documentation
  • Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and engineers on data solutions
  • Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve pipeline performance and reliability
  • Implement best practices for testing, CI/CD, and version control in data projects

Required Skills

  • Data pipeline development
  • Cloud data platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)
  • SQLPython or Scala
  • ETL/ELT tools
  • Data warehousing
  • Data modeling
  • Streaming data (Kafka/Kinesis)
  • Version control (Git)
  • CI/CD for data