Data Engineer (Azure)

Company Description

Merkle is a leading data-driven, technology-enabled, global performance marketing agency that specialises in the delivery of unique, personalised customer experiences across platforms and devices. We call it 'people-based' marketing, and with over 25 years' experience, we are proud to be recognised as a global leader.

Merkle's heritage in data, technology and analytics is the foundation for our understanding of consumer insights that inspires our people-based marketing strategies. Combined with our expertise in performance creative and media, we can then offer our clients content-driven, contextual customer experiences that achieve business growth.

In 2016, the agency joined dentsu, one of the world's biggest media companies to form the Customer Experience Management (CXM) Line of Business.

Job Description

Under the direction of a Solutions Architect, you will

· Design great data solutions for our clients

· Implement modern cloud solutions using the full range of cloud components

· Work with local leadership and our global teams, bringing their industry and product expertise, to shape and provide client solutions.

· You will support our Data Scientists & Ecommerce teams and wider Merkle working on projects

· You will provide technical expertise and consultancy to clients to help them understand the power of data for their organization

Qualifications

Essential:

· Implementation of Data Lake patterns in Azure

· Understanding of Data Lake partitioning policies and role-based access controls

· An understanding of data modelling, data structures, databases, and data ingestion and transformation

· Cloud engineering and data engineering skills

· Experience of Python, Spark, Scala or similar technologies

· DevOps such as Continuous Integration, Automation, Infrastructures as Code inc. Bicep deployments.

· CI / CD experience within ETL / data transformation environment

· Azure function app architecture

· Data Factory and Databricks knowledge

· GitHub including Github Actions for deployment across 3 environments integrated with Client Website

· SQL database skills

· Cross functional team work internally and with external clients.

· Experience creating system documentation

· Proficiency working in an Agile environment

Beneficial

• Terraform
• Event-driven Message processing.

· Azure certification / demonstratable path towards certification

· Experience of Synapse / Fabric

· Experience of Cosmos DB

Additional Information

Benefits:

⛺ 5 weeks of vacation + 3 wellness days

❤️ 2 Volunteering days to share the kindness of your heart with others

⏰ Flexible working hours and home office

🎓 Full access to Dentsu Academy and on-site learning sessions

🍹 Team events: company parties, monthly breakfasts, and pub quizzes

🥪 Snacks, and drinks at the office

💸 Referral bonus programme

💻 Laptop and equipment

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Merkle is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on sex, gender identity, race, colour, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disabilities or any other protected basis because we believe the come from all walks of life. We aspire to foster a community in which diversity is valued in both our employees and our ideas.