Director, Engineering(campaign management)

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About Choreograph: A Leading WPP Media Brand

Choreograph is WPP’s global data products and technology company. We’re on a mission to transform marketing by building the fastest, most connected data platform that bridges marketing strategy to scaled activation. We work with agencies and clients to transform the value of data by bringing together technology, data and analytics capabilities. We deliver this through the Open Media Studio, an AI-enabled media and data platform for the next era of advertising.

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

• You will 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.
• You will work very 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.
• You will work closely with the Engineering & Product leads across the other product areas in the business to ensure cohesion between our systems and that our collective delivers against Choreograph’s business objectives.
• You will provide guidance, rooted in experience, for engineering best practice across all Campaign Management delivery teams.
• You will occasionally provide designs and solutions for critical projects that allow the development teams to deliver software on time and to agreed functional and non-functional specifications.
• You will regularly provide technical leadership in order to make sure that the designs are implemented using appropriate tools and techniques.
• You will manage the technical debt and make the calls between balancing pragmatic delivery and compromising implementation patterns.
• You will help guard our central SRE practice and ensure adoption within the Activation product area.
• You will drive innovation; coaching engineers to experiment and choose appropriate technologies to fit into our ecosystem - this requires you to be an expert authority on data architecture & engineering tools, techniques and patterns.
• You will stay on top of data cloud costs accrued by Campaign Management and prioritise optimisations when costs exceed expectations.
• You will be the senior contact/escalation point for engineering people issues in the Campaign Management product area, including defining roles, hiring and working with operational leads to effectively onboard new team members.
• You will engage with RFI processes during new customer engagements, provide a technical steer, high level estimations and produce design documents.

Skills And Experience

At WPP Media, we believe in the power of our culture and our people. It’s what elevates us to deliver exceptional experiences for both our clients and each other. 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 & 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.

Skills

You are:

• An experienced leader.
• A highly experienced software architect.
• Proficient in our core programming language: 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/CS.
• Microservice architecture patterns (modern data platforms stretch beyond data engineering).
• API implementation patterns and interfaces.

Ideally, you know:

• How the advertising works and are familiar with the typical datasets.
• How machine learning works at a high level.
• Have used GCP extensively.

Life at WPP Media & Benefits

Our passion for shaping the next era of media includes investing in our employees to help them do their best work, and we’re just as committed to employee growth as we are to responsible media investment. WPP Media employees can tap into the global WPP Media & WPP networks to pursue their passions, grow their networks, and learn at the cutting edge of marketing and advertising. We have a variety of employee resource groups and host frequent in-office events showcasing team wins, sharing thought leadership, and celebrating holidays and milestone events. Our benefits include competitive medical, group retirement plans, vision, and dental insurance, significant paid time off, preferential partner discounts, and employee mental health awareness days.

WPP Media is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.

We believe the best work happens when we’re together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That’s why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

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