Senior Data Engineer

VML MAP; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital marketing firm in Greater London is seeking a passionate Senior Data Engineer to integrate and manage data pipelines and support data analytics. You will work with technologies like Spark, Python, and various cloud platforms to optimize data for major global brands. The ideal candidate will have strong SQL skills, experience in cloud infrastructures such as GCP, AWS, or Azure, and a solid understanding of data quality management best practices. Join a team that prioritizes innovation and collaboration.

Qualifications

• Experience in Spark, Python, or Scala.
• Excellent SQL skills for data transformation.
• Understanding of cloud data warehousing and ETL processes.
• Experience with cloud-based infrastructures like GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Expertise in database management and performance tuning.
• Knowledge of data quality management best practices.
• Familiarity with visualization tools for data modeling.
• Understanding of version control tools like GitHub.
• Knowledge of data governance principles.

Responsibilities

• Identify and integrate data from various sources.
• Develop and optimize data pipelines.
• Build monitoring tools for ETL flows.
• Design processes to correct ETL incidents.
• Collaborate with various teams on data use.
• Consult analytics teams on technical best practices.
• Design data architectures in cloud environments.

Skills

Spark

Python

Scala

SQL

Cloud data warehousing

Data pipelines

Data transformation

Google Dataflow

Looker

DBT

CI/CD Pipelines

Airflow DAGs

Data quality management

Visualization tools

GitHub

Data governance

Kubernetes

Job description

Are you a Senior Data Engineer with a passion to build, support & maintain digital marketing solutions that offers real value? Are you interested in working with the largest global brands and complex challenges in the media analytics space? Then you might be the Senior Data Engineer we’re looking for!

What will your day look like?

As our new Senior Data Engineer, you will become part of our growing Data Insights and Science team. Here, you will employ new technologies across multiple cloud platforms to help successful brands reach their next level in 1:1 retargeting, communication, and CRM. More specifically, your tasks include:

• Identify, collect, and integrate data from various sources by building high-quality data pipelines and data models for analytics and business intelligence (BI) purposes.
• Develop and optimize code to enable pipelines at minimum cost and ease of maintenance.
• Build monitoring procedures & tools to ensure solid ETL flows and data quality.
• Design processes and tools to correct ETL incidents.
• Collaborate with CRM developers, data scientists, data analysts, and product owners to ensure the supplied data supports the business initiatives.
• Consult our data analytics teams to ensure best practices on the technical use of data are followed.
• Design data architectures and collaborate in data migrations in cloud environments.

Who are you going to work with?

You will join a team of highly skilled Architects, Data Scientists, and Consultants who are passionate about unlocking insights from data through analytics. You will also get to work closely with experts from other Technology, Creative, and Client Teams.

What do you bring to the table?

As a person, you have a team player mindset and an open-minded attitude. You can communicate ideas and technical topics honestly and clearly – also to non-experts – while respecting the views of others on the team. You are eager to understand and find solutions, allowing you to quickly adapt to changing situations and come up with new ideas.

At the same time, you solve problems in an analytical and pragmatic manner.

Moreover, you have:

• Experience in Spark, Python, Scala, or similar.
• Excellent SQL skills enabling large-scale data transformation and analysis.
• A comprehensive understanding of cloud data warehousing, data pipelines and data transformation (extract, transform, and load) processes and supporting technologies such as Google Dataflow, Looker, DBT, EMR, CI/CD Pipelines, Airflow DAGs, and other analytics tools.
• Experience with cloud-based data infrastructures (Ideally GCP, but AWS or Azure would also suffice)
• Expertise in managing databases, including performance tuning, backup, and recovery.
• Solid knowledge of data quality management best practices, including data profiling, data cleansing, and data validation
• Knowledge of strengths and limitations of visualization tools (e.g. PowerBI, Tableau, Looker, etc.) in terms of data modeling in the visualization tools.
• Understanding of versioning control tools like GitHub to changes related to dbt models and transformations, ensuring that changes are tracked, documented, and reviewed by the appropriate stakeholders.
• Knowledge of applying data governance principles, policies, and practices that ensure data accuracy, consistency, and security
• Knowledge of Kubernetes would be an advantage

Personal skills:

• Strong desire to contribute towards keeping data tidy and well-organized
• Ability to think critically, identify issues autonomously, and propose corrective actions.
• Build great relationships with your team and stakeholders

A leader in personalized customer experiences

VML MAP is a world-leading Centre of Excellence that helps businesses humanize the relationship between the brand and the customer through hyper personalization at scale, marketing automation and CRM. With the brain of a consultancy, the heart of an agency and the power of technology and data, we work with some of the world's most admired brands to help them on their transformation journey to becoming truly customer-centric. Together, we are 1000+ technology specialists, data scientists, strategic thinkers, consultants, operations experts, and creative minds from 55+ nationalities.

A global network

We are part of the global VML network that encompasses more than 30,000 employees across 150+ offices in 60+ markets, each contributing to a culture that values connection, belonging, and the power of differences.

WPP (VML MAP) is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.

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