Job Description

Associate Data Engineer

Urbandale, IA (hybrid)

The Associate Data Engineer supporting Digital, Marketing, and Pro CX at Pella is responsible for building and maintaining the data foundations that enable scalable, reliable analytics across customer experience, digital performance, and marketing functions. This role focuses on designing data pipelines, transforming and modeling data, and ensuring high-quality, well-governed data is available for analytics, reporting, and advanced use cases.

This individual will work cross-functionally with the Digital team, Marketing team, and Pro CX team to support a wide range of analytics needs, including digital performance measurement, customer journey analysis, and marketing effectiveness. While not embedded within a single function, the role plays a critical part in enabling these teams by delivering trusted, production-ready data that supports insight generation and decision-making across Pella.

In this role, you will:

• Design, build, and maintain data pipelines that ingest data from digital, marketing, and enterprise systems into analytics platforms.
• Develop and manage data models that support analytics, reporting, and downstream use cases across Digital, Marketing, and Pro CX teams.
• Work closely with analysts, data scientists, and business partners to translate analytical requirements into scalable data solutions.
• Implement data transformations, validations, and quality checks to ensure data is accurate, consistent, and production-ready.
• Support analytics use cases by making data easily consumable for BI tools, dashboards, and advanced analytics.
• Partner with technology teams and vendors to integrate new data sources and evolve existing pipelines.
• Document data pipelines, models, definitions, and lineage to support data governance and reuse across the organization.
• Contribute to the ongoing improvement of Pella’s analytics infrastructure, standards, and best practices.
• Assist in enabling the Digital, Marketing, and Pro CX teams by ensuring analytics data aligns with customer journeys, digital tools, and measurement frameworks.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience

• 3+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or a related technical analytics role.
• Strong experience working with BigQuery or comparable cloud data warehouse technologies.
• Proficiency in Python for data transformation, automation, and pipeline development.
• Working knowledge of R for analytical or statistical workflows is preferred.
• Strong SQL skills, including complex joins, aggregations, and performance optimization.
• Familiarity with digital and marketing data sources such as web analytics platforms, CRM systems, and advertising platforms.
• Experience supporting analytics and BI tools such as Looker Studio and Power BI.
• Understanding of data modeling concepts (e.g., star schemas, fact and dimension tables).
• Experience collaborating with analysts and stakeholders to support data-driven decision-making.
• Ability to clearly communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Salesforce, Fullstory, and other digital or customer data platforms.
• Familiarity with data governance, documentation, and metadata management.
• Exposure to cloud-based data ecosystems and modern analytics architectures.
• Experience supporting cross-functional teams such as Digital, Marketing, Customer Experience, or E-commerce.

About Pella Corporation

As the #1 most-preferred national window and door brand by homeowners across the country, Pella Corporation leads the industry in innovation and design. Founded in 1925, today the Pella Family of Brands encompasses a robust product offering sold and installed through various channels. We are a growing, privately owned company with 20 manufacturing locations and over 10,000 team members in the U.S. and Canada. Pella is consistently recognized as a great place to work by Newsweek, Forbes and Glassdoor, having most recently been named to America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity by Newsweek in 2024, as well as Forbes' 2024 Best Employers for Women and Best-In-State Employer in Iowa. We have also received numerous accolades for innovation and design, including Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators in 2024 and Most Innovative Manufacturers for 2022 and 2023.

At Pella, our team cares deeply, learns continuously and achieves results that go beyond. We encourage creative thinking that seeks out and includes diverse perspectives. And we empower you to do the work you’re most proud of — that’s why we offer individualized talent development plans, cross-functional experiences and opportunities for career advancement through personal and professional development.

With talent just like you, we are imagining, building and fighting for a brighter future for generations to come. Ready to find a career that sparks your passion?