Senior Data Engineer IRC292480

Description

Who is our client:

Our client is a global data products and technology company. They are on a mission to transform marketing by building the fastest, most connected data platform that bridges marketing strategy to scaled activation.

They work with agencies and clients to transform the value of data by bringing together technology, data and analytics capabilities. Delivering this through the AI-enabled media and data platform for the next era of advertising.

The client is endlessly curious. Their team of thinkers, builders, creators and problem solvers are over 1,000 strong, across 20 markets around the world. Our client’s culture is based on mutual trust, sharing, building, and learning together. They value simplicity, maintainability, automation, and metrics.

About this role:

Client’s team consists of 100+ engineers, designers, data, and product people, working in small inter-disciplinary teams closely with creative agencies, media agencies, and with their customers, to develop and scale their platform, a leading digital advertising optimization suite that delivers amazing outcomes for brands and audiences.

As a Data Engineer you will work with the client’s Product and Engineering team, as well as other feature development teams, to build, deliver and operate their data platform. The role is a hands-on data engineering role, analyzing and sourcing data for their teams to use, building and maintaining pipelines and automation to wrangle, cleanse, secure, govern and provide that data to teams, building automations, owning tests, supporting junior engineers, and contributing to the wider team principles and practices, and the tools they use. The role has no line management responsibilities.

Their data platform is built with Python and Airflow, deployed using CI/CD, heavily exploits automations, and runs on AWS, GCP, k8s, Snowflake and more. Their efforts in data engineering support their adserving platform, which serves 9 petabytes and 77 billion objects annually, which amounts to 20 billion ad impressions across the globe. You’ll play a leading role in significantly scaling this further.