GCP Data Specialist

Why we're hiring:

WPP is at the forefront of the marketing and advertising industry's largest transformation. Our Global CIO is leading a significant evolution of our Enterprise Technology capabilities, bringing together over 2,500 technology professionals into an integrated global team. This team will play a crucial role in enabling the ongoing transformation of our agencies and functions.

GroupM is the world’s leading media investment company responsible for more than $63B in annual media investment through agencies Mindshare, MediaCom, Wavemaker, Essence and m/SIX, as well as the results-driven programmatic audience company, Xaxis and data and technology company Choreograph. GroupM’s portfolio includes Data & Technology, Investment and Services, all united in a vision to shape the next era of media where advertising works better for people. By leveraging all the benefits of scale, the company innovates, differentiates and generates sustained value for our clients wherever they do business.

The GroupM IT team in WPP IT are the technology solutions partner for the GroupM group of agencies and are accountable for co-ordinating and assuring end-to-end change delivery, managing the GroupM IT technology life cycle and innovation pipeline.

This role will work as part of the Business Platform Team for EMEA. You will be part of a new team Data team in Chennai, that will support our existing and future BI setup for EMEA markets. You will be responsible for delivering the solutions formulated by product owners and key stakeholders for different EMEA markets.  In collaboration with the Data development team, you update the architecture and data models to new data needs and changes in source systems

What you'll be doing:

• Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable data pipelines using Google Cloud Platform services (such as Dataflow, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Composer) to extract, transform, and load data from various sources.
• Communicate technical concepts and benefits of GCP solutions to non-technical stakeholders, aiding them in understanding necessary changes for project goals.
• Monitor and optimize data processing and storage resources on GCP.
• Troubleshoot and resolve data pipeline issues and performance bottlenecks.
• Document data engineering processes, best practices, and technical specifications.
• Adhere to agile development practices – including evolutionary design, refactoring, continuous integration/delivery, and test-driven development.
• Collaborate with Business Partner Team and Stakeholders during project scoping and feasibility phases as a SME, identifying technical risks and proposing mitigations.
• Provide production support for data load jobs.
• Automate data workflows and create queries for periodic report generation.
• Collaborate with development teams to implement data manipulation queries ensuring alignment with business requirements.
• Maintain and upgrade existing applications as necessary.
• Participate in key design meetings and provide technical support.
• Perform additional tasks related to data migrations, cloud resource audits, and cross-functional support activities.

What you'll need:

• Education: Combination of education/experience that would enable incumbent to meet fundamental duties and required competencies. Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Mathematics or another technical field is highly preferred.
• Personality and Working Practice: Team player, with good communication skills, analytical thinking, attention to detail and the ability to think about the big picture.
• Required Experience and Knowledge: 
  • +5 years’ experience with GCP services such as BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, Cloud Composer and Cloud Function
  • Understanding of GCP security best practices, including IAM roles and service accounts
  • 1 or 2 + years of strong experience in Python development (object-oriented/Functional Programming, Pandas, Pyspark etc)
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Cloud Deployment Manager)

• Desirable Experience and Knowledge: 
  • Knowledge and some experience with DBT
  • Experience with designing and implementing data pipelines using tools like Apache Beam, Apache Airflow, or similar

• Languages: Very good English skills, any other language is an addition.

Who you are:

You're open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are open-minded: to new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.

You're optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.

You're extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.

What we'll give you:

Passionate, inspired people – We aim to create a culture in which people can do extraordinary work.

Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.

Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?

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