WPP Enterprise Solutions designs, builds, and operates the growth systems that competitive businesses rely on. In a world where Al is reshaping how companies drive growth, we lead clients in business transformation and marketing modernization, connecting strategy directly to execution. Our 12,000 experts in engineering and platforms, commerce, consulting, content transformation, CRM, and CX work within a unified global operating unit across 40+ markets. WPP Enterprise Solutions works alongside best-in-class partners including Adobe, AWS, Braze, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Shopify, as well as innovators in AI, to deliver growth solutions tailored to the needs of our clients’ businesses. VML, part of WPP, supports WPP Enterprise Solutions by helping brands activate transformation through creativity and experience.
Step into the Koppling workstream as a Data Engineer and be a key player in building a sophisticated media data warehouse. Your role will involve developing and deploying robust ETL/ELT data pipelines to automate the integration of 3rd party data sources at scale. This is an excellent opportunity to apply solid technical problem-solving skills, advance your data engineering capabilities, and gain a foundational understanding of the marketing data domain. You'll contribute to creating a centralized, reliable data source that informs critical business decisions, working within a collaborative team environment.
What you’ll be doing- Developing, and deploying robust ETL/ELT data pipelines using Python and SQL to integrate various 3rd party data sources.
- Automating the integration of 3rd party data sources at scale, ensuring data accuracy and timeliness for our media data warehouse.
- Utilizing Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services such as BigQuery, Cloud Run, and Scheduler for efficient data processing and orchestration.
- Performing data modeling and transformations using dbt and SQL to structure and refine data within the media data warehouse.
- Managing and version controlling pipeline code and configurations using Git, ensuring collaborative development and deployment.
- Troubleshooting and optimizing existing data pipelines to enhance reliability, performance, and scalability.
- Applying infrastructure-as-code principles to manage data resources, potentially using tools like Terraform for environment provisioning.
- Developing or integrating APIs for complex data ingestion and exploring the use of streaming data technologies like Kafka or Pub/Sub for real-time data needs.
- Implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines to automate the testing, deployment, and monitoring of data solutions.
- Professional experience in data engineering or a similar role.
- Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services including BigQuery, Cloud Run, and Scheduler.
- Proficiency in SQL for data manipulation and analysis.
- Strong programming skills in Python.
- Experience with dbt.
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code principles.
- Understanding of data warehousing concepts, ETL/ELT processes, and data modeling.
- Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git).
- Excellent problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and a proactive attitude.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced environment.
Desirable Attributes
- Familiarity with Terraform.
- Experience with API Development.
- Knowledge of streaming data processing concepts (e.g., Kafka, Pub/Sub).
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines.
- Relevant GCP certifications are a plus.
Alongside the opportunity to work with some of the most exciting brands around the world, we’ll also prioritise your career development and help you grow your skills. We’ll empower you to make a difference, allow you to be yourself, and respect who you are.
Our culture thrives on our core values, designed for impact-driven individuals: Heart, Brains and Courage.
We lead with Heart, fostering empathy and trust where genuine connections and human-centric work flourish.
We empower your Brains for innovation, valuing relentless curiosity and collaborative intelligence to solve complex challenges.
And we champion Courage, inspiring you to speak up, embrace experimentation, and advocate for bold solutions that push our thinking to be better than yesterday.
AT VML Enterprise Solutions
Our Enterprise Solutions division houses strategic consultants, creative and technical architects and skilled developers and operators that together help some of the world’s leading organisations to deliver outstanding digital experiences across all major routes to market worldwide: marketplaces, online retailers, D2C, B2B and social platforms. With over 4,200 experts in 55 operational centres across 34 countries, our capabilities span the entire buying journey from customer acquisition, through engagement, to conversion and loyalty, driving multi-channel growth for world-leading brands.
We work with some of the most exciting brands such as The Coca-Cola Company, EY, Bosch, Unilever, Ford, DFS, Mercedes-Benz, Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé, Sainsbury’s, Selfridges, Shell and Tiffany & Co. We’ve built over 500 platforms for brands and retailers and generate in excess of $29bn annually for our clients and work with over 50 strategic partners including Adobe, SAP, Salesforce, HCL, Shopify, Sitecore, BigCommerce, commerce tools and Acquia. Our reputation is based on our people, and we believe we have some of the best in the business.
As our business grows internationally, we’re looking for new people to join us on our journey to inspire and take a key role in shaping some of the best commerce solutions, services, and websites in the world. Working as a team, no problem is insurmountable; we share in our client’s successes and believe that anyone can show creative bravery no matter what their role is in the team.
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