2 months ago
Copenhagen, DenmarkSenior
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve core input and output data models, field types, and partitioning strategies across multiple pipeline stages.
- Maintain and extend a multi-layered audience segmentation framework that normalizes raw data into canonical representations.
- Model audience types, behavioral signals, relational structures, embeddings, and anomaly detection data.
- Develop and maintain Spark-based data jobs using Scala, GCP, Parquet, and BigQuery.
- Partner with Quality Assurance, Analytics, and connector teams to ensure data correctness, integrity, and reliable downstream use.
- Write readable, testable, performant, and resilient production code.
- Contribute to continuous improvement, peer feedback, data quality, and engineering standards.
Requirements
- 5+ years of data engineering experience delivering complex, multi-layer data pipelines.
- Experience with Scala or a similar strongly typed or advanced functional programming language, with willingness to develop further in Scala.
- Experience with Apache Spark and large-scale distributed data processing.
- 3+ years of experience with GCP and big-data stores such as BigQuery.
- Ability to understand large interconnected data domains and reason about cross-domain impacts.
- Strong communication skills for explaining complex data models and technical decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience with data monitoring, detection, troubleshooting, and validation frameworks, plus well-designed, well-tested, and performant solutions in an agile environment.
Benefits
- Collaborative, inclusive culture focused on creativity, belonging, and continuous learning.
- Opportunity to work on large-scale, challenging ad-tech data solutions for leading global brands.
- Hybrid work arrangement with teams generally working in the office around four days per week.
- Accommodations or flexibility can be discussed with the hiring team.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About WPP
WPP is a public advertising and marketing services group that provides creative, media, data, and public relations solutions to global brands. It operates agency networks including Ogilvy, VML/GroupM, Grey, and AKQA, generating revenue from agency fees and media investment management. Founded in 1971 and headquartered in London, it serves clients across 100+ markets worldwide.