Senior Data Engineer

About us

AB InBev is the leading global brewer and one of the world’s top 5 consumer product companies. With over 500 beer brands, we’re number one or two in many of the world’s top beer markets, including North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.

 

About AB InBev Growth Group

Created in 2022, the Growth Group unifies our business-to-business (B2B), direct-to-consumer (DTC), Sales & Distribution, and Marketing teams. By bringing together global tech and commercial functions, the Growth Group allows us to fully leverage data and drive digital transformation and organic growth for AB InBev around the world.

In addition to supporting well known global beer brands like Corona, Budweiser and Michelob Ultra, the Growth Group is home to a robust suite of digital products including our B2B digital commerce platform BEES, on-demand delivery services TaDa Delivery, and table top beer keg PerfectDraft.

 

About the Opportunity

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer with a software development background to lead and evolve data tracking and event instrumentation for digital products. This role focuses on building reliable, scalable, and high-quality data collection at the source, working closely with Engineering, Product, Analytics, and Data teams.

This is a hands-on senior role with strong technical ownership and influence over tracking standards and implementation practices.

 

What you'll do:

• Technically lead decisions related to data tracking and event instrumentation, defining standards and best practices across web and mobile applications.
• Design and implement data tracking and event instrumentation solutions for digital products.
• Work directly in application code to implement, maintain, and evolve tracking events, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability.
• Partner with Product, Analytics, and Data teams to define events, properties, and tracking plans aligned with business objectives.
• Integrate applications with tracking tools and CDPs (e.g., Segment), ensuring secure and reliable data delivery.
• Define and implement technical validations and control mechanisms to ensure events are correctly fired and schemas remain consistent.
• Support and enforce data quality and data governance practices applied to data collection from the source.
• Investigate and resolve complex tracking issues, including broken events, data loss, and integration failures, performing root cause analysis.
• Perform impact analysis related to changes in application code, tracking events, and downstream integrations.
• Create and maintain technical documentation on instrumentation patterns, tracking standards, and data flows.
• Act as a technical reference and mentor, guiding other engineers on best practices for data tracking and instrumentation.

 

What you'll need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related fields.
• Solid experience as a Senior Software Engineer or Senior Data Engineer, with strong hands-on development experience.
• Proven experience with event instrumentation and data tracking in digital products.
• Hands-on experience with tracking tools / CDPs (e.g., Segment, RudderStack, Snowplow).
• Strong experience working with APIs, SDKs, and system integrations.
• Ability to analyze and debug complex technical issues related to tracking and data collection.
• Strong SQL, Python and Data Modeling 
• Working with Databricks and Git
• Experience working col