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Our clients include Admiral, The Financial Times, Gousto, Iceland and The Postcode Lottery.\nSince our inception in 2005, we set out on a mission - to inspire the exceptional and defeat the bad and the boring. By championing transparency, our goal was to deliver award-winning work for clients across all sectors, whilst fostering a truly vibrant and inclusive culture that welcomes the best industry talent from all walks of life.\n20 years on, we have achieved all of this and more. We have graced The Sunday Times Best Places to Work list for thirteen consecutive years, whilst also being crowned Campaign’s Best Place to Work on three occasions. Our work has garnered acclaim from the likes of IPA, WARC, Effie, Media Week, Thinkbox, Campaign Magazine, The Drum, AdWeek, and more. We have continued to grow our agency every single year, delivered show-stopping work for our clients, and have consistently delivered exceptional media value.\nThe Insight, Analytics and Data unit you will be a part of are an award winning multi discipline team of 25. In recent years we have won prestigious awards including Effie, Campaign, Media Week and IPA Effectiveness Awards, as well as being awarded the IPA’s Effectiveness Accreditation on all three occasions (2021, 2023, 2025).\nThe Role\nAs a Data Engineer you will be a key member of a specialist Data and Tech solutions team within the7stars.\nYou will beusing cloud platforms(primarily Google Cloud Platform, but also AWSand Azure) to build databases, transform, model,and activate data from multiple sourcesincludingadvertising platforms, analytics platforms, and client data. Yourrole in the team will be to deliver best-in-class data visualisation solutions that unite agency teams and engage marketing stakeholders.Experience with Lookerpreferable, or similar experience with other BI tools such as Tableau or PowerBI.\nYou will also be involved in future facing marketing transformation projects for the agency and our clients - integrating artificial intelligence and scaling efficient ways of uniting data to deliver market leading tech media planning and activation solutions.You will need to be familiar with how APIsare configured.\nYou will need to have strong experience with using Google BigQuery, and working with the wider Google Marketing Platform stack, including familiarity with Google Analyticsdata,and will have experience integrating other 3rd party technologies to enhance our advertisers’ understanding of campaign and business performance.\nExperience with integrating and onboarding data from Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Salesforce CRM is required.Any other experience with utilising data clean roomsand integrating 1stparty audiences from clients to 3rdparty solutionswould also be beneficial.\nThis role will play a key part in enabling clients to fully lean in to utilising their data to its full potential, improving the effectiveness of their marketing goals, and helping them gain valuable,actionable insights about their audiences.\nYour responsibilities\nManaging data integrations with clients, between our own platforms and external 3rd party platforms, datapartnersand developmentpartners.\nProject management, co-ordinating various stakeholders to make sure the right access is setup, the data is validatedand documenting the process and updates clearly and regularly.\nBuilding/implementingand scalingsolutions across clients,enablingdata-driven activation and campaign activation.\nCreating and maintainingELT pipelinesto ensure data freshness and accuracy, working with teams to resolve missing data points and build robust and trustworthy data sets.\nYou will be\nSelf-driven, results-oriented, solutions-focused with a desire to advance the agency to deliver improved ways of working.\nBe able to quickly learn and adapt to new systems and processes.\nAble to assimilate information quickly and adhere to processes and best practices.\nDemonstrate critical thinking and problem-solving abilities.\nHighly organised with the ability to resolve issues in a timely manner.\nHighly numerate and able to confidently work with data to identifypatterns and inconsistencies.\nCollaborative with strong interpersonal and relationship building skills, andhave the ability totrain others.\nTeam player who motivates others and encourages close collaboration.\nStrong accountability to meet deadlines and attention to detail.\nAbility to manage workloads across multiple projects.\nAdept at organisation, multi-tasking, time managementand project management.\nAble to communicate clearly and proactively to manage stakeholder expectations.\nYou will need\nExperience in an engineering/developer role with an emphasis on media and marketing data solutions \nExperience with Salesforce\nStrong experience and understanding of marketing platforms, metrics and KPIs \nIndustry experience of SQL and python \nA track recordof implementing cloud-based data solutions\nThe ability to manage projects and processes independently \nA good understanding of business and marketing performance metrics\nA good understanding of the ad/mar-tech landscape \nExcellent interpersonal and communication skills \nExcellent attention to detail\nSalary & Benefits\nCompetitive salary \nUncounted holiday\nFree breakfast\nFree company bar\nNew Business Bonus eligible in your first year as a the7stars employee\nPersonal finance advice from Financial Advisor\nLife Assurance\nCritical Illness cover\nIncome protection\nSummer profit share bonus and Christmas bonus\nPrivate Medical Insurance\nGym Membership (choice of mutilple local options)\nSeason ticket Loan\nCycle to work Scheme\nTechscheme\nExtensive Maternity, Paternity, fostering and adoption leave package, including a bonus for birthing parents when they announce they are expecting and a Gousto box for when the baby first arrives home\nRoyal London pension (Including a Green Pension option)\nEmployee assistance programme\nOur working pattern is Monday-Thursday in our Covent Garden offices, followed by hybrid working on Friday.\nthe7stars is committed to creating a diverse environment, where employees feel empowered to share different ideas, perspectives and experiences in a collaborative and creative work environment. 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