About WPP Media 

WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients and communities. For more information, visit wpp.com. 

WPP Media is WPP’s global media collective. In a world where media is everywhere and in everything, we bring the best platform, people, and partners together to create limitless opportunities for growth. For more information, visit wppmedia.com 

At WPP Media, we believe in the power of our culture and our people. It’s what elevates us to deliver exceptional experiences for both our clients and each other. In this role it will be critical to embrace WPP & WPP Media’s shared core values: 

• Be Extraordinary by Leading Collectively to Inspire transformational Creativity. 
• Create an Open environment by Balancing People and Client Experiences by Cultivating Trust. 
• Lead Optimistically by Championing Growth and Development to Mobilize the Enterprise. 

Senior Data Engineer

This role will serve as core member of a data engineering team assigned to one of WPP’s major global clients, who will be maintaining and expanding upon a global data warehouse, automated reports, and data provisioning applications to ensure that media and marketing stakeholders the world will have access to the right data and insights to inform their marketing decisions.  

WPP has developed the Measure platform, a stack of standardized technologies (Adverity for collection, DBT for modelling, Google Cloud Platform for orchestration, computing, and storage, and Microsoft PowerBI for visualization) and templates to speed the deployment and simplify support for automated reporting and analytics tools.

The team’s primary responsibility is to build and maintain a global Measure-based reporting solution, leveraging existing templates where applicable and building custom collectors, data models, cloud architectures, and/or visualizations when required. The team will automate the collection and transformation of disparate marketing data into a single source of truth, continually improving it to incorporate new data sources, and to derive new insights, to support ever-evolving business demands.

As an Senior Data Engineer, your primary responsibilities will include deploying and troubleshooting standardized Adverity data collection templates,  QAing landed versus source data using self-developed scripts and manual processes, gathering platform and ad account parameters from upstream stakeholders, working within and contributing to the team building the data warehousing solution,  adhering to technical standards and best practices, and contributing to the documentation of custom work.

In doing so you will exhibit a foundational understanding of cloud technology and key data engineering skills and knowledge to help your team in this fast-evolving and in-demand industry.

Some of the things we’d like you to do:

• Deploy data collectors in Adverity to gather data from media, agency system, and other sources

• Development and maintain data quality checks and procedures, helping stakeholders overcome data issues before they impact the quality of the reporting solution

• Support the translation of user requirements and business needs into technical specifications
• Be a proficient user of Google Cloud Platform and associated technologies, ensuring your work incorporates industry best practice
• Monitor automated jobs, troubleshooting data issues as-and-when they arise
• Support other members of the team responsible for “last mile” transformation and visualization of data within Google Data Studio reports and dashboards
• Serve as a technical and professional leader for junior staff
• Provide hands-on support to users of reporting solutions, helping the wider team triage and respond to user queries in a timely manner
• Attending internal stakeholder meetings, presenting your solutions, and providing updates on your work.
• Support the development strong working relationships with third-party data providers that we rely on for access to necessary data.

A bit about yourself:

Required

• Bachelor degree in Science or Engineering
• 3+ years’ experience (professional or academic) in data engineering, preferably handling advertising media or marketing data
• Professional experience with SQL, preferably deployed via DBT
• Analytically minded, enabling you to understand and overcome technically complex challenges, and to tell compelling stories with data
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, including the ability to manage multiple tasks in an autonomous way
• Strong spoken and written communication skills, ensuring your thoughts and needs are heard and understood
• An ability to demonstrate a passion for the digital marketing ecosystem, and an understanding of the role that data plays within it
• Delivers best results when working in a team environment, and an ability to partner effectively with people of varying degrees of technical capability

Desirable

• Previous experience working with data and technology
• Experience with digital marketing platforms and the data they generate, in particular Google Marketing Platform, Facebook, Tiktok etc.  
• An understanding of how data is tracked and exchanged in the process of digital advertising (e.g. role of ad servers and other third-party tech vendors)
• Experience using or building reports with business intelligence software, ideally Microsoft PowerBI
• Work experience within a marketing organization, preferably at a media agency or related company (e.g. publisher, ad tech, client marketing org)

Life at WPP Media & Benefits 

Our passion for shaping the next era of media includes investing in our employees to help them do their best work, and we’re just as committed to employee growth as we are to responsible media investment. WPP Media employees can tap into the global WPP Media & WPP networks to pursue their passions, grow their networks, and learn at the cutting edge of marketing and advertising. We have a variety of employee resource groups and host frequent in-office events showcasing team wins, sharing thought leadership, and celebrating holidays and milestone events. Our benefits include competitive medical, group retirement plans, vision, and dental insurance, significant paid time off, preferential partner discounts, and employee mental health awareness days.   

WPP Media 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.

We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process. 

About the Role:

We are looking for a hands-on Senior Data Product Manager to join Payoneer's Data Product Unit - the central hub for data product management across the company. In this role, you will be part of a dedicated squad responsible for data products serving the Finance organization, working closely with Finance stakeholders to design and deliver data products that support operational financial capabilities, book closing processes, regulatory reporting, and analytical needs.

You will lead the data product lifecycle end-to-end - from understanding business and regulatory challenges, defining analytical and operational needs, through designing scalable data models and assets, to delivering high-quality data products that empower the Finance organization.

As part of a globally distributed Finance Data Squad, you will collaborate closely with team members across multiple locations worldwide, as well as with the BI developers based alongside you in India. This role is ideal for a product-minded, business-oriented data person who is both strategic and hands-on, and who thrives on connecting complex financial business goals with technical execution.

What You'II Do:

• Own and drive your data product items within the Finance squad roadmap, aligned with strategic business goals, regulatory requirements, and SLA commitments - actively contributing to the squad's shared priorities and delivery goals.
• Work closely with Finance stakeholders to understand data needs, define and prioritize use cases, and develop solutions that improve data accessibility and usability.
• Translate business and regulatory objectives into clear data requirements, KPIs, and technical specifications (PRD and STT).
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, reliable, and high-performance data products and models that serve analytical, operational, and regulatory reporting use cases.
• Partner closely with BI developers in India to ensure seamless integration of data products with reporting and visualization layers.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering and BI globally to implement and deliver high-quality solutions end to end.
• Ensure alignment and consistency between Finance domain-level data products and the company's core data assets.
• Drive data quality standards and maintain SLA commitments critical to financial reporting and regulatory stability.
• Maintain clear and proactive communication with stakeholders across global teams, ensuring transparency, clarity, and measurable outcomes.
• Monitor usage, adoption, and business impact of delivered data products, iterating based on feedback.
• Contribute to the broader data modernization and innovation initiatives led by the Data Product Unit.

Who You Are:

• 5+ years of experience in data product management, data analytics, or data-driven product roles, with proven hands-on experience.
• Strong understanding of data modeling, data warehouse architecture, and data pipeline design - experience with cloud platforms such as BigQuery required. (ETL Experience)
• Solid business acumen with a good understanding of financial data domains including financial reporting, revenue recognition, balances, and regulatory data.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills - fluent English, capable of bridging business and technical conversations clearly and effectively across a globally distributed team.
• Proficiency in SQL and practical data analysis - comfortable diving into data and validating results.
• Experience working within cross-functional delivery squads with Data Engineering and BI.
• Strong quality orientation with experience defining and enforcing data quality standards, SLA tracking, and issue management.

Must have:

• ETL Experience- data modeling, data warehouse architecture, and data pipeline design - experience with cloud platforms such as BigQuery required
  Proficiency in SQL and practical data analysis - comfortable diving into data and validating results.
• Work with Data & Engineering team (stakeholders) + non-technical team (officers of regulations; finance team

Nice to have:

• Experience working in fintech, payments, or financial services environments.
• Familiarity with regulatory reporting requirements and compliance-driven data products.
• Experience with visualization tools such as Looker, Power BI, or Tableau.
• Background in building data products at scale within multi-domain or globally distributed organizations.
• Experience working with geographically distributed teams across multiple time zones.

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ABOUT VAYNERX

VaynerX (https://vaynerx.com) is the most contemporary family of companies, working together to build and grow brands. Subsidiaries include VaynerMedia, Eva Nosidam Productions, The Sasha Group, Gallery Media Group, Tingley Lane Trading, VaynerSpeakers, and VaynerCommerce.

The PITCH

We are seeking a passionate and driven Data Engineer to help build a next-generation data and measurement platform that powers advanced data solutions for our Fortune 500 clients and internal teams.

As a member of the Data Infrastructure and Visualization team within our Analytics discipline, you will be a key contributor in designing, building, and scaling the reporting and analytics infrastructure that is the backbone for all VaynerMedia clients. In this role, you’ll collaborate closely with internal stakeholders, analysts, and data scientists, while partnering with fellow data engineers to architect and implement robust cloud-based data solutions.

We’re looking for a technically proficient Data Engineer with a strong background in cloud infrastructure and a keen interest in delivering scalable, high-performance data systems that enable actionable insights and strategic decision-making.

Here’s where you come in.

• Develop & implement ETL/ELT solutions leveraging cloud based architecture. Design the ingestion layer and data transformation and normalization to optimize querying performance and reporting outputs
• Debug production issues across our organizations cloud infrastructure
• Highly experienced with SQL scripting language to maintain and troubleshoot queries and processes within cloud based data warehouse
• Expertise in python to help develop and maintain workflows that enhance data automation, data hygiene, and enable efficient connections to 3rd party platforms for data retrieval and storage on cloud based platforms (aws, snowflake)
• Lead data integration projects with 3rd party solutions, with a focus on increasing process efficiencies in a cost-effective manner
• Partner with the Analytics stakeholders to automate and scale processes that improve data utilization and reporting deliverables
• Understanding & Documenting business requirements & technical specifications related to new data integrations. Design and execute unit testing to help mitigate data discrepancies in support of client reporting

Your Experience

• 3 to 5 years of data engineering experience, particularly in support of cloud based data warehouse
• Strong knowledge of working in Snowflake and AWS (Redshift, Athena, Lambda)
• Expert in hands on Python development
• Expertise in building ETL/ELT pipelines in an cloud based data warehouse
• Experience with 3rd party data ingestions and normalization via APIs, peer-to-peer networks, SFTP, etc
• Well versed with leading requirement gathering sessions across verticals (analytics, media, or finance teams)
• Adapt communication style to relevant audiences (from technical teams to non-technical stakeholders)
• Communicates effectively via emails and in presentations
• Present complex ideas in practical terms to non technical stakeholders

What you should know about VaynerMedia

Think “lab” and not “agency”. We get excited about solving business problems, not creating advertising for the sake of making advertising. Our entrepreneurship DNA runs deep. We’re willing to break rules, try new things, and test hypotheses if it means better understanding our craft. It’s fun!

Our environment (and pace) feels much more like a start-up than most agencies you might be used to. Hopefully that, and the opportunity to collaborate with the talented and enthusiastic crew, work with big brands excites you, as it does us. We can’t wait to meet you.

About WPP Media 

WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients and communities. For more information, visit wpp.com. 

WPP Media is WPP’s global media collective. In a world where media is everywhere and in everything, we bring the best platform, people, and partners together to create limitless opportunities for growth. For more information, visit wppmedia.com 

At WPP Media, we believe in the power of our culture and our people. It’s what elevates us to deliver exceptional experiences for both our clients and each other. In this role it will be critical to embrace WPP & WPP Media’s shared core values: 

• Be Extraordinary by Leading Collectively to Inspire transformational Creativity. 
• Create an Open environment by Balancing People and Client Experiences by Cultivating Trust. 
• Lead Optimistically by Championing Growth and Development to Mobilize the Enterprise. 

This role will serve as core member of a data engineering team assigned to one of WPP’s major global clients, who will be maintaining and expanding upon a global data warehouse, automated reports, and data provisioning applications to ensure that media and marketing stakeholders the world will have access to the right data and insights to inform their marketing decisions.  

WPP has developed the Measure platform, a stack of standardized technologies (Adverity for collection, DBT for modelling, Google Cloud Platform for orchestration, computing, and storage, and Microsoft PowerBI for visualization) and templates to speed the deployment and simplify support for automated reporting and analytics tools.

The team’s primary responsibility is to build and maintain a global Measure-based reporting solution, leveraging existing templates where applicable and building custom collectors, data models, cloud architectures, and/or visualizations when required. The team will automate the collection and transformation of disparate marketing data into a single source of truth, continually improving it to incorporate new data sources, and to derive new insights, to support ever-evolving business demands.

As an Senior Data Engineer, your primary responsibilities will include deploying and troubleshooting standardized Adverity data collection templates,  QAing landed versus source data using self-developed scripts and manual processes, gathering platform and ad account parameters from upstream stakeholders, working within and contributing to the team building the data warehousing solution,  adhering to technical standards and best practices, and contributing to the documentation of custom work.

In doing so you will exhibit a foundational understanding of cloud technology and key data engineering skills and knowledge to help your team in this fast-evolving and in-demand industry.

Some of the things we’d like you to do:

• Deploy data collectors in Adverity to gather data from media, agency system, and other sources

• Development and maintain data quality checks and procedures, helping stakeholders overcome data issues before they impact the quality of the reporting solution

• Support the translation of user requirements and business needs into technical specifications
• Be a proficient user of Google Cloud Platform and associated technologies, ensuring your work incorporates industry best practice
• Monitor automated jobs, troubleshooting data issues as-and-when they arise
• Support other members of the team responsible for “last mile” transformation and visualization of data within Google Data Studio reports and dashboards
• Serve as a technical and professional leader for junior staff
• Provide hands-on support to users of reporting solutions, helping the wider team triage and respond to user queries in a timely manner
• Attending internal stakeholder meetings, presenting your solutions, and providing updates on your work.
• Support the development strong working relationships with third-party data providers that we rely on for access to necessary data.

A bit about yourself:

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and optimize enterprise ETL/ELT pipelines utilizing Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Storage, and advanced serverless technologies—ensuring cross-platform scalability, security, and reliability.
• Implement highly efficient, complex SQL solutions—including advanced query optimization, partitioning, and indexing—to power sophisticated analytics models and enable real-time data processing.
• Lead the development and integration of robust automation frameworks using Python, and API orchestration, introducing innovative solutions to streamline the entire data lifecycle and maximize operational efficiency.
• Exercise full ownership of production pipeline reliability; proactively identify and resolve critical issues through deep root-cause analysis, and institute resilient, long-term stability measures for continuous uptime.
• Establish, refine, and enforce rigorous coding and architectural standards through comprehensive code reviews and technical audits, setting quality benchmarks for the offshore engineering team.
• Champion best-in-class documentation, data lineage, and automated CI/CD deployment practices, ensuring transparency, auditability, and governance across all data assets.
• Demonstrate expert-level support for analytics and media teams, translating business challenges into scalable, high-performance technical solutions, leveraging deep Azure and SQL expertise.

Senior-Level Expectations:

• Act as the organization’s subject matter expert (SME) in end-to-end pipeline architecture, orchestration frameworks, schema evolution, and advanced Azure Data Factory strategies.
• Lead modernization initiatives across the organization, championing the adoption of technologies such as Databricks, DBT and advanced DevOps practices to future-proof the data platform and enable rapid innovation.
• Ensure strict adherence to SLAs and regulatory compliance through advanced monitoring, proactive risk mitigation, and continuous improvement of operational processes.

Required Skills

• 3-4 years of progressive experience in data engineering, with expert-level mastery of Azure Data Factory, SQL, and cloud data platforms (Azure and/or GCP).
• Proven expertise in designing, optimizing, and managing large-scale, production-grade data pipelines, including deep skills in SQL performance tuning, ADF orchestration, and CI/CD automation.
• Advanced knowledge of production operations, troubleshooting, and high-availability data processing at scale.

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