Data Engineer

About the role

VML, part of WPP, is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce, creating connected brands to drive growth. VML is celebrated for its innovative and human first, award-winning work for blue chip client partners including AstraZeneca, Colgate-Palmolive, Dell, Ford, Microsoft, Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wendy's. The agency is recognized by the Forrester Wave™ Reports, as a Leader among Marketing Creative and Content Service Providers, Commerce Services, Global Digital Experience Services, Global Marketing Services and, most recently, Marketing Measurement & Optimization. In addition, VML's specialist health network, VML Health, is one of the world's largest and most awarded health agencies. VML's global network is powered by 26,000 talented people across 55+ markets, with principal offices in Kansas City, New York, Detroit, London, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, and Sydney. About WPP WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world's leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company - powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com . We believe data, creativity and technology work best when they work together. Our mission is to shape the next era of media - one that's smarter, more connected, and powered by insight. We're part of a global network that values openness, collaboration and bold ideas. Here, you'll have the chance to make an impact and grow your career and skill set with some of the best minds in the industry. We're looking for a Data Engineer to contribute to our Open Intelligence data initiative, helping to build and maintain our core data capabilities. You'll play a key role in building and maintaining the data connectors that feed data to Open Intelligence. This role requires good communication skills and an understanding of brand, adtech, and marketing data, as well as the benefits of well-engineered data pipelines. You will contribute to creating systems that keep our global media ecosystem running, ensuring that data is reliable, scalable, and reflects the needs of the business. This is a hands-on technical role for someone who is comfortable delivering reliable data solutions and is eager to leverage new development and testing technologies. You will collaborate closely with team members and product stakeholders to ensure our data infrastructure meets evolving business needs. The role is in our lovely Copenhagen offices at Nørrebro, where you will join a larger team of roughly 50 people working on Open Intelligence.

Responsibilities

• Build, manage and maintain data extraction pipelines with the help of AI coding assistants.
• Pre-aggregate data in clean rooms using SQL-dialects when client or partner concerns demand it.
• Fetch data through REST APIs using Python or Node.js when needed.
• Collaborate with our Product organization regarding the addition of new data sources or changes to existing ones, and translate those requirements into maintainable code.
• Contribute to identifying and addressing technical debt and inefficiencies within our data platform.
• Support our regional teams in following best practices for adding their local datasets to Open Intelligence.
• Collaborate closely with analysts and data scientists who leverage Open Intelligence, to make sure that data connectors work as expected.
• Contribute to designing and building strong data governance and quality frameworks to ensure connectors produced are accurate and work consistently throughout their lifetime.
• Stay curious, explore new tools, techniques, and technologies that can help us move faster and smarter.

Requirements

• Strong communication skills - you can effectively explain technical concepts to various audiences.
• 2-4 years of experience in data engineering.
• Familiarity with adtech- and/or martech data and terminology.
• Interest in leveraging AI coding assistants and prompt engineering to enhance productivity.
• Solid experience with data wrangling in a language such as SQL, Python, or Scala.
• Interest in applying or learning the Scala language for data processing.
• Understanding of strongly typed computer languages and compilers, and an appreciation for finding data processing errors early.
• Proficiency in one or more modern data ecosystems - e.g., Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, InfoSum, or Redshift.
• Experience working with CI/CD, version control, and testing best practices.
• Experience with cloud-based platforms like GCP, AWS, or Azure, and deployment abstractions like Docker or Terraform.
• A passion for data, technology, and computer languages.
• A proactive approach to solving problems and improvin

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