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Who We Are
As a core contributor to the Digital Marketing MOPs team, your work will directly elevate the maturity of Cisco's marketing data ecosystem. By balancing rigorous governance with rapid AI-application development, you will reduce data friction, improve the accuracy of operational KPIs, and accelerate the transition toward a data-driven, AI-enabled marketing organization.

Mission: Turn enterprise data into trusted business-ready products that power decisions, accelerate AI, and drive measurable business outcomes.

What You'll Do

Cisco B2B Marketing is seeking a highly motivated Business-Ready Data & AI focused person to drive the Business Ready Data (BRD) program. This role serves as a critical bridge between business strategy and hands-on technical execution, building the foundation for trusted, governed, and reusable enterprise data products. You will own the full data lifecycle from raw ingestion to the deployment of AI-powered applications transforming complex marketing and operational data into business-ready assets that power analytics, executive decision-making, and self-serve AI intelligence. 

Key Responsibilities 
Business-Ready Data Engineering (40%): Design, build, and maintain trusted Business-Ready Data products that transform raw enterprise marketing data into governed, standardized, and consumable datasets. Develop scalable data models, reusable transformation logic, business rules, and certified data assets that support operational processes, analytics, and AI. 

Data Integration, Quality & Governance (40%): Engineer and optimize scalable data pipelines using Snowflake, Fivetran, dbt, and related technologies. Implement automated data quality controls, business rule validation, metadata management, lineage, schema monitoring, and certification processes to ensure trusted, reliable, and business-ready data. 

Business Data Strategy & Stewardship (10%): Partner with business stakeholders to define business-ready data requirements, establish common business definitions, metadata standards, data dictionaries, and governance practices that improve consistency, usability, and enterprise trust in marketing data assets. 
Cross-Functional Partnership & Delivery (10%): Collaborate with Marketing Operations, IT, Analytics Engineering, Product Owners, and business stakeholders to prioritize business-ready data initiatives, align on enterprise standards, and deliver governed data products that enable operational excellence, enterprise analytics, and AI capabilities. 

Minimum Requirements 

• 5 + years of experience in Data Engineering, Business Intelligence, Data Management, or a related data discipline, with demonstrated experience building and delivering enterprise data solutions. 

• Strong hands-on expertise in SQL, Snowflake and dbt with experience designing data models, developing scalable ELT/ETL pipelines, and transforming raw data into standardized, reliable, and consumable datasets. 

• Proficiency in Python and Git-based development practices, with experience automating data processes and developing reusable, scalable engineering solutions. 

• Demonstrated experience with data quality and data governance fundamentals, including business rules, validation, metadata, lineage, and controls required to deliver trusted data products. 

• Strong business and technical partnership skills, with demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into technical data solutions and collaborate effectively across business stakeholders, Data Engineering, Analytics, and IT. 

Preferred Requirements 

• Experience with Fivetran and modern cloud data architectures, including enterprise-scale data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration. 

• Experience developing governed or business-ready data products, including standardized business definitions, reusable transformation logic, certification, data dictionaries, metadata management, and automated data-quality monitoring. 

• Experience establishing or operationalizing data stewardship and governance practices across business and technical teams. 

• Experience developing data foundations that support enterprise analytics, executive reporting, AI/ML, or AI-powered applications. 

• Experience working with marketing, marketing operations, customer, or other complex enterprise data ecosystems. 

• Demonstrated ability to operate at the intersection of business strategy and technical execution, helping turn complex business needs into scalable, governed, and reusable data solutions.  

Why Cisco? 

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere. 

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you. 

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

The starting salary range posted for this position is $135,100.00 to $171,400.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks.  Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:

• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees

• 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco

• Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees

• Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)

• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next

• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members

• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

• .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

• 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

• 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and

• Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area:

$165,200.00 - $240,900.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

$145,200.00 - $211,700.00

* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.