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Data Wrangler Freelancers are professionals who specialize in cleaning, organizing, and preparing raw data for analysis or further processing. They work independently or on a contract basis, helping organizations transform messy or unstructured data into usable formats. Their tasks often include data cleaning, validation, formatting, and sometimes basic analysis. By ensuring data quality and consistency, they enable data scientists and analysts to make accurate insights or build reliable models.

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CredentialsBasic data handling skills, often self-taught or with short coursesBachelor's degree in data science, statistics, or related field
Work EnvironmentIndependent, remote, project-basedIn-house or remote, often part of a team
Industry UsageFreelance projects across various industriesCorporate, finance, healthcare, and more
Search & Comparison IntentFocus on flexible, short-term data handling tasksFocus on data analysis, reporting, and insights

While Data Wrangler Freelance specializes in cleaning and preparing data on a project basis, Data Analysts focus on interpreting data to generate insights. Both roles require data skills, but Data Analysts typically have more advanced education and work within organizations, whereas Data Wranglers often operate independently on specific tasks.

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Freelance data wranglers often encounter challenges such as receiving inconsistent or incomplete data from clients, tight project deadlines, and varying data formats. Effectively managing client expectations involves clear communication about project scope, data quality requirements, and realistic timelines. Establishing a structured workflow, using reliable data-cleaning tools, and setting regular check-ins with clients can help ensure smooth collaboration and successful project outcomes.

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To excel as a Data Wrangler Freelance, you need strong data manipulation skills, a background in statistics or computer science, and proficiency in data cleaning and formatting. Familiarity with tools such as Python, R, SQL, Excel, and data visualization software is typically expected. Attention to detail, problem-solving abilities, and effective communication with clients are valuable soft skills in this role. These skills ensure accurate, reliable data preparation, enabling clients to make informed business decisions based on clean and well-structured data.
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Associate Director, Data Engineering

Publicis Groupe Holdings B.V

Philadelphia, PA • On-site

$112K - $161K/yr

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Retirement, PTO

This job post has expired today. Applications are no longer accepted.

Job description

Company Description

PHM is the leading health media agency in the US, built for the modern healthcare experience. Here, industry depth meets media scale, where data becomes direction, where creativity and storytelling bring truth to life, and where orchestration replaces fragmentation.

Dedicated to making brands discovered, PHM redefines what media can do through data, content, and creativity. Because in modern healthcare, the brands that are found are the ones that lead. And when brands lead, advantage follows. Go deeper. Be found.

Overview

Responsible for developing and supporting data products, this resource plays a critical role in the design, development and management of modern, cloud-based data engineering and data warehouse solutions applied by internal and external collaborators. 

Responsibilities
  • Create high performance data products by monetizing BI solutions, warehouse and ETL technologies
  • Work closely with different teams such as client, sales, IT, media planning and buying
  • Design, develop and productionize data engineering pipelines on a massively parallel processing (MPP) and cloud-based tech stack, applying solution aspects from hybrid-clouds (Azure, AWS), data lakes and multiple data warehouses.
  • Data management functions including:
    • ETL/data feed management
    • Metadata management
    • Create database objects as needed (e.g. Stored procedures, Stages, Indexes)
    • Optimization of data pipelines
  • Maintain procedures for handling, storing and using data
  • Tools:  
    • Apache Spark (Pyspark), Pandas, Python
    • Any modern database (Oracle, SQL Server, Postgres)
    • Good to have exposure to data visualization tools such as Tableau, PowerBI
    • Data engineering stack on public clouds - AWS, Azure, Google
Qualifications
  • BS Degree in one of the following subject areas; Computer Science, Information Technology or related field preferred
  • Minimum of 5+ years of experience designing and developing BI solutions
  • Solid understanding of database structures, theories, principles, and practices
  • Solid understanding of ETL and data warehouse principles
  • Good interpersonal, written and oral communication skills
  • User documentation skills
  • Ability to present complex ideas in user-friendly language
  • Self-motivated and directed, with keen attention to detail
  • Able to prioritize and execute tasks in a team-oriented, high-pressure environment
  • Minimum 5 years SQL experience, 3 years of ETL experience
  • Python based data wrangling experience highly desired.
  • Strong data warehouse knowledge
  • Experience with large data sets
  • Experience with Web and Digital marketing data a plus
Additional Information

Our Publicis Groupe motto "Viva La Difference" means we're better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact USMTTACompliance@publicis.com.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

 Compensation Range: USD $112,290.00 - USD $161,280.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 7/20/2026.Employment Type: FULL_TIME

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