Job Summary

As a Data Engineer in the WPP Enterprise Data Group, you will be responsible for the design and implementation of scalable data solutions providing enterprise-scale data transformation across a broad range of projects.

Your role will focus on delivering solutions that utilize large-scale data ingestion, processing, storage/querying, streaming, and batch analytics using Databricks. As part of a team, you will implement world-class solutions designed by our data architects. Your responsibilities will include estimating, designing, coding, testing, deploying, and ensuring scalability and performance on Azure using key technologies like Databricks.

As a hands-on technologist with an extensive data engineering background using Databricks, you will be joining a group of Data Engineers who are passionate about building the best possible solutions for our business and endorse a culture of life-long learning and collaboration.

What youll be doing:

- Design, build, test and maintain data pipelines (ELT), according to business and technical requirements.
- Implement secure platforms with data governance in mind.
- Play a key role in automation and building industry leading solutions against architectural best practices.
- Propose technical designs and develop integrations.
- Deliver data migrations between legacy modern platforms
- Design deliver data warehousing solutions and key data engineering workstreams for any required solution.
- Support cross-functional teams across the data space.

What youll need:

Minimum requirements for this role include:

- 3+ years of experience designing and building scalable distributed data pipelines and dimensional data models




- 3+ years of experience in Python and SQL
- Experience using Databricks platform and PySpark is a must.
- Extensive experience of Microsoft Azure data services - Data Factory, ADLS gen2, Event Hubs, Azure SQL, Azure Key Vault
- Ideally experience in the following - Kafka, Delta Lake, Pandas
- A demonstrable understanding of Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) and Agile practices, unit integration tests and development practices using Azure DevOps.
- Fluency in English.
- Exposure to AI ML technologies is a plus.

Who you are:

Youre 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.

Youre optimistic: we approach all that we do with confidence: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.

Youre 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 well give you:

- Passionate, inspired people - we champion a culture of people that do extraordinary work
- Scale and chance - we offer the opportunity to create, influence and deliver 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.

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📌 Data Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 WPP
📍 Chennai