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About Ovative Group:

Ovative Group is an independent, full-funnel media, measurement, and creative firm. Leveraging our deep industry expertise, we help brands like Best Buy, Domino's, American Eagle, The Home Depot, Post, Disney, Tumi, Michael Kors, Boost Mobile, and UnitedHealth Group transform their media and measurement programs. The result? Profitable growth that speaks for itself.

At Ovative, we don't just track data, we redefine success. How do we do it? Our proprietary MarTech platform, EMRge helps businesses transform marketing into a driver of sustainable growth. Powered by Enterprise Marketing Return (EMR), our differentiated approach to holistic media buying, planning, and measurement, EMRge is the first MarTech platform to measure businesses holistically. We're all about raising the bar every day, and it shows. Our work has been recognized by organizations like Digiday, Google, Inc. 5000, USA Today, and Search Engine Land.

About the Role:

We are seeking a Sr. Data & Software Engineer to join our rapidly growing product and engineering development team.
Our company specializes in enterprise-level media measurement and optimization across various industries.
In this role, you will take a leadership position within a cross-functional team responsible for creating,optimizing, andmaintainingscalable software and data solutions to enhance performance, stability, and scalability. You will play a pivotal role in guiding the team and working closely with internal and client stakeholders throughout the entire software development lifecycle, from concept to deployment.
The ideal candidate will bring extensive experience in iterative development practices, a strong focus on building testable solutions, and both conceptual and pragmatic problem-solving skills. You activelyleverageAI-assisted development tools to improve velocity and quality, and you help your team adopt these practices effectively. Your outstanding attention to detail and strong written and oral communication skills will enable you to work directly with business users, understanding theirobjectivesand translating them into technical requirements. As a valuable team member, you will have the opportunity to mentor junior team members,contribute toinnovative ideas, and drive the adoption ofcutting-edgetechnologies within the team and foster your own professional growth.

Responsibilities of a Sr. Data & Software Engineer:

Lead the design, development, testing, and deployment of robust software solutions that meet business and technical goals.

Lead effort inidentifyingopportunities for automation with a focus on the operational stability of software applications and systems

Engage directly with Product Managers and stakeholders to understand their business goals, gather requirements, and translate into detailed, actionable technical requirements

Research, write and edit documentation and technical requirements, including software designs, evaluation plans, test results, technical manuals and formal recommendations and reports

Evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness,performanceand customer impact to ensure we build the right solutions that scale

Mentor and level up the skills of your teammates through collaboration and by sharing yourexpertise

Ensure adherence to and advancement of software and product engineering best practices, including code quality, documentation, testing, security, deployment, and performance.

Evaluate and integratenew technologies, tools, and frameworks tooptimizethe software development process.

Troubleshoot complex software issues and provide effective solutions.

Provide guidance, mentorship, and contribute to architectural decisions, code reviews, and project direction.

Foster a culture of continuous learning to keep your team current with emerging technology and software engineering trends.

Ensure adherence to SDLC and DevOps best practices,maintaininghigh standardsof quality and security across all phases of development.

Leverage and champion AI-assisted development tools and practices across the team to accelerate delivery, improve code quality, andestablisheffective patterns for responsible AI-assisted development.

Leverage and champion AI-assisted development tools and practices across the team to accelerate delivery, improve code quality, andestablisheffective patterns for responsible AI-assisted development.

Requirements:

5+ years of relevant data & software engineering development experience

Highly proficient in SQL, Python, command-line tools, and ETL/ELT pipelines for large datasets, including AI and analytics use cases

Experienced with cloud platforms and modern AI concepts/tools, such as GCP, AWS, AI/ML APIs, vector databases, embeddings, and retrieval

Strong attention to detail, communication skills, anda track recordof knowledge-sharing and mentoring junior team members

Direct experience working with business users and clients to understand goals and gather requirements

Preferred:

Experience with iterative development and Agile best practices, including experience working withinSAFeor similar scaled frameworks.

Experience with AI/ML frameworks or APIs (e.g., OpenAI,HuggingFace,LangChain, or similar) and their practical applications in an engineering context.

Proficient working with data warehouses and big data tools (e.g.,BigQuery, Databricks) for large-scale data processing.

Experience working with APIs for data retrieval and integration across multiple data sources.

Experience building and deploying tools, agents, or workflows that orchestrate LLM calls in a production or near-production context.

Experience working with marketing,analyticsand customer data in the context of data engineering or pipeline development.

Experience creating and owning data/table architecture for a project or product area.

Experience integrating data models within software and deploying data pipelines in cloud environments.