Data Engineer Full Time

Global

Job Description

Data Engineer

Reporting of the Role

This role reports to Head of Data Engineering

Overview of job

We are looking for a passionate Data Engineer with excellent problem solving, teamwork, and communication skills to join our dynamic data team based in London.

The role would be reporting to the Head of Data, and focused initially on DAX – a groundbreaking digital advertising exchange which connects brands with audiences at scale across connected audio and digital out-of-home.

This role will be responsible for building and evolving key DAX data services such as publisher/advertiser insights, identity resolution and audience modelling.

This is a phenomenal opportunity to use and develop your technical expertise to work alongside a very successful project within Global, and to deliver ground-breaking and innovative data products that will impact audio and out-of-home ad-technology.

3 best things about the job

• Play a central role in crafting and defining our data architecture at a pivotal time for data strategy in Global!
• Work with a team of data and software specialists, passionate about building scalable data services and pushing towards turning DAX into an efficient ad delivery platform that feeds from real-time data insights!
• Getting training and hands-on experience on the latest tools and technologies such as AWS, Apache Spark, K8s, etc.

Measures of success –

In the first few months, you would have:

• Applied sound standard methodology in deploying data services; appreciating potential impact to scalability, reliability, accuracy, efficiency and costs
• Shown understanding of how and why data services are applied in programmatic advertisement
• Contributed to the development of our streaming data pipelines.
• Become immersed within ad technology and programmatic advertisement; partnering with the business to deliver trusted data products.

Responsibilities of the role

• Building and evolving key data platforms, services and pipelines used across DAX
• Being responsible for the development of streaming systems and Big Data management
• Be accountable for delivering data services that produce tangible business value
• Maintaining existing pipelines and processes, such as Airflow DAGs of varied types, guaranteeing continuous data delivery

What you will need

The ideal candidate will be proactive and willing to develop and implement innovative solutions, capable of the following:

Recommended:

• Skilled in a programming language (Python, Java, etc.)
• Proficiency with cloud services (ideally AWS)
• Large-scale streaming data (i.e. Apache Kafka)
• Experience with low-latency time-series’ database (i.e. Apache Druid)
• Understanding of building and deploying highly available, distributed systems of data extraction, transformation and loading of datasets
• Monitoring data reliability and infrastructure performance
• Knowledge of continuous delivery and continuous integration (Jenkins, Docker, K8s)
• Understanding of Agile methodologies and Continuous Delivery

Bonus Points for:

• Databricks/Apache Spark
• AWS/Azure/GCP Certifications
• Infrastructure as Code (i.e. Terraform)
• Ability to debug distributed architecture

Everyone is welcome at Global

Just like our media and entertainment platforms are for everyone, so are our workplaces. We know that we can’t possibly serve our diverse audiences without first nurturing and celebrating it in our people and that’s why we work hard to create an inclusive culture for everyone. We believe that different will set us apart, so no matter what you look like, where you come from or what your favourite radio station is, we want to hear from you.

Although we cannot make guarantees, we welcome conversations about flexible working for all roles at Global