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Data Engineer at The Specialist Works

Data Engineer

The Specialist Works · GB

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Data Engineer

The Specialist Works · GB

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About the Role

As a TSW data engineer, you will be a key member of a dynamic media activation team and a critical part of our service delivery to clients. You will oversee the integrity and evolution of our reporting and attribution platforms. You will have a significant say in our data product roadmap and its deployment, helping to shape the processes and tools used to drive efficiency.

Responsibilities

  • Create, monitor, maintain, and optimize data pipelines within the TSW data ecosystem, primarily using Azure and the Adverity platform.
  • Write SQL queries to generate bespoke reporting outputs.
  • Troubleshoot code issues and implement changes to future-proof code.
  • Collect information for new scopes, investigate new data sources, and devise business logic.
  • Collaborate with the head of digital delivery to create bespoke marketing intelligence reports for clients.
  • Bring together data from multiple sources to enable campaign activation and automation.
  • Collaborate with internal stakeholders, suppliers, and clients to ensure correct data provision and adherence to data governance.
  • Own delivery of new and existing ETL pipelines and data engineering projects.
  • Work collaboratively with media teams and other business partners to ensure data availability and interpretability.
  • Provide client-facing support with onboarding and troubleshooting for data solutions.
  • Help shape the evolution of the data ecosystem, contributing to product design and architecture discussions.
  • Suggest, develop, design, and write new solutions.
  • Own work across various DevOps tasks, managing cloud infrastructure.
  • Ensure adherence to data governance and data security best practices.
  • Act as an internal champion for data solutions, encouraging adoption and supporting implementation.
  • Work in a friendly but assertive manner with colleagues, suppliers, and clients.
  • Support initiatives that promote social equity, diversity, and inclusion.
  • Actively support and promote sustainable best practices.
  • Help implement green office practices.
  • Coordinate initiatives that enhance corporate social responsibility.
  • Ensure operations align with values of sustainability and social responsibility.

Requirements

  • 2-3 years of full-time Python and SQL experience.
  • Experience working in a media agency, or with media and marketing data (digital and non-digital).
  • Experience and understanding of how APIs extract data from various platforms.
  • Experience briefing, designing, and implementing ETL solutions end-to-end.
  • Experience with data orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, Prefect) and building scalable data pipelines.
  • Strong Git and collaborative development skills (e.g., GitHub, GitLab).
  • Strong understanding of data fundamentals: MDM, data integrity best practices, auditing processes, automated validation.
  • Cloud DevOps experience (e.g., Azure, GCP, AWS).
  • Strong experience translating business and data needs into technical requirements.
  • Ability to communicate technical concepts and requirements in non-technical language.
  • Back-end development for visualization and dashboarding products (Power BI, Tableau, Datorama).
  • Experience working with Linux VMs.
  • Shell scripting experience (e.g., bash, zsh).
  • Creating or using Git hooks.
  • Continuous integration / continuous deployment tooling experience.
  • Basic awareness of platform costing and infrastructure trade-offs.
  • A creative eye for spotting and prototyping improvements to reporting and manual workflows.

Skills

  • Python
  • SQL
  • Azure
  • Adverity platform
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • GitLab
  • MDM
  • Power BI
  • Tableau
  • Datorama
  • Linux VMs
  • Shell scripting
  • bash
  • zsh
  • Continuous integration
  • Continuous deployment

Location

  • UK

Work Type

  • Full-time
  • Remote

Experience Level

  • 2-3 years

Benefits

  • 9-day fortnight (every other Friday off)
  • Benefits package investing in long-term personal and professional growth and wellbeing.
  • Continuous personal development through learning modules and policies.
  • Opportunities to contribute to social equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives.
  • Support for sustainable best practices and eco-friendly initiatives.

About the Company

  • The Specialist Works is a media agency built exclusively for marketers at entrepreneurial brands that are past the start-up stage but not yet large corporates.
  • Clients span large privately owned businesses (PE backed, founder-led) and small to mid-cap public enterprises.
  • The company fosters an exciting, fast-paced, people-first environment that allows everyone to grow, learn, and thrive.
  • Values include Passion, Inquisitiveness, Caring, and Knowledge.
  • What's Possible Group's mission is to build a group people are proud of, focusing on client delivery, employee treatment, and commitment to people, planet, and profit.
  • The group has implemented 'What's Possible University' with learning modules and policies.
  • Dedicated to embedding social and environmental responsibility into every aspect of the business.
  • Culture, creativity, and passion are powered by people, with diversity and difference driving innovation.

Equal Opportunity

  • Diversity and difference drive innovation, not only for us but also for our clients and is at the heart of everything that we do.