Overview
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Role Summary and Impact
This position is a hands-on engineering leadership role. Internally, the role is accountable for the successful technical delivery of the campaign stewardship system, entailing architecture and guidance for the implementation of our platform. Externally, the role is the engineering face of Activation, entailing senior stakeholder relationship management, product positioning and customer adoption. The role demands a balance of deep technical expertise, senior leadership, and knowledge of the Advertising industry.
Responsibilities
* Oversee, and be accountable for, the technical implementation of our CSS product, ensuring that our end-to-end architecture both scales and evolves in line with the use cases they support.
* Work closely with the Senior Director of Product for Campaign Management to ensure our systems are fit for purpose through a nuanced understanding of the business context and the factors that drive the product life cycle.
* Collaborate with the Engineering & Product leads across other product areas to ensure cohesion between systems and that the team delivers against Choreograph’s business objectives.
* Provide guidance, rooted in experience, for engineering best practice across all Campaign Management delivery teams.
* Occasionally provide designs and solutions for critical projects that enable the development teams to deliver software on time and to agreed specifications.
* Provide technical leadership to ensure designs are implemented using appropriate tools and techniques.
* Manage technical debt and balance pragmatic delivery with implementation patterns.
* Guard the central SRE practice and promote adoption within the Activation product area.
* Drive innovation; coach engineers to experiment and select technologies suitable for the ecosystem, with expertise in data architecture and engineering tools, techniques and patterns.
* Monitor data cloud costs for Campaign Management and prioritise optimisations when costs exceed expectations.
* Serve as the senior contact/escalation point for engineering people issues in the Campaign Management area, including defining roles, hiring and onboarding new team members.
* Engage with RFI processes during new customer engagements, provide technical steer, high level estimations and produce design documents.
Skills And Experience
At WPP Media, we value our culture and people. Core values include leadership, openness, and growth. In this role it will be critical to embrace WPP & WPP Media’s shared core values:
* Be Extraordinary by Leading Collectively to Inspire transformational Creativity.
* Create an Open environment by Balancing People and Client Experiences by Cultivating Trust.
* Lead Optimistically by Championing Growth and Development to Mobilize the Enterprise.
You have a proven track record of:
* Overseeing complex technical delivery of software platforms.
* Liaising with senior stakeholders - both internally and externally.
* Building, developing and leading a large team of engineers - including offshore and onshore resources.
* Operating in the software development stack (Python and its frameworks).
* Designing and managing successful delivery of cloud native applications at scale.
* Managing the SDLC for large scale projects.
You are:
* An experienced leader.
* A highly experienced software architect.
* Proficient in Python.
* Working knowledge of GCP.
* Highly experienced in the development workflow.
* Highly detail oriented.
* Focused on delivery.
You know:
* Modern software architecture.
* Operational tooling surrounding the software development lifecycle (IaC, CI/CD).
* Microservice architecture patterns (modern data platforms extend beyond data engineering).
* API implementation patterns and interfaces.
I Ideally, you know:
* How advertising works and familiarity with typical datasets.
* How machine learning works at a high level.
* Have used GCP extensively.
Life at WPP Media & Benefits
We invest in our employees to help them do their best work and pursue growth. Benefits include competitive medical, retirement plans, vision, dental, paid time off, and mental health awareness days. We are an equal opportunity employer and foster a culture of respect where everyone belongs and has opportunities to progress.
We support a hybrid work approach with office presence several days per week. Please discuss accommodations or flexibility during the interview process. Please read our Privacy Notice for more information on how we process the information you provide.
Additional information
Seniority level: Director
Employment type: Full-time
Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
Industries: Advertising Services
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