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With exceptional talent, trusted data and intelligence, and world-class partnerships - all united by our pioneering agentic marketing platform, WPP Open - we help clients navigate change, capture opportunity, and deliver transformational growth.\nWPP Media is WPP's AI-driven media operating unit, bringing together media, data, and partnerships to deliver creative personalisation at scale. Connected through WPP Open and powered by Open Intelligence, clients see exactly where, how, and why their media investment is working.\nFor more information, visit wppmedia.com.\nRole Summary and Impact\nWPP Media Hong Kong is seeking a motivated, analytical, and curious Associate, Data Engineering to join our team. In this role, you will support the team in building, maintaining, and optimizing the critical data pipelines, architectures, and data models that power WPP's analytics and business decision-making. This is an exceptional early-career opportunity to gain hands-on experience with modern data platforms and engineering best practices within the fast-paced media and advertising landscape while working on real-world business challenges.\nCore Responsibilities:\nPipeline Development & Maintenance: Support the design, development, and monitoring of robust data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows to consolidate data from diverse media platforms.\nDatabase & Transformation Optimization: Develop, optimize, and maintain high-performing SQL queries, database views, and automated data transformations.\nData Integration: Assist in integrating data from multiple primary sources into our central enterprise data platforms.\nData Quality & Governance: Actively validate data integrity, troubleshoot data failures, and investigate data quality issues to maintain high trust in our analytical tools.\nProcess Documentation: Clearly document data flows, technical processes, and business logic rules.\nStakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate effectively with both technical (analysts, developers, architects) and business stakeholders to translate requirements into reliable technical data solutions.\nTask Ownership: Take proactive ownership of small-to-medium data engineering tasks and technical projects, managing them from planning to successful delivery.\nSkills and Experience\nAt 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:\nBe Extraordinary by Leading Collectively to Inspire transformational Creativity.\nCreate an Open environment by Balancing People and Client Experiences by Cultivating Trust.\nLead Optimistically by Championing Growth and Development to Mobilize the Enterprise.\nRequired Skills & Experience:\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a closely related quantitative/technical discipline.\n1 to 2 years of relevant experience in data engineering, with strong, hands-on SQL proficiency and a deep conceptual understanding of relational databases. Fresh graduates with internships, university capstone projects, or personal projects involving data engineering or data analytics are also welcome.\nSolid foundational knowledge of data warehousing, ETL/ELT concepts, data modeling fundamental, and data quality practices.\nOutstanding analytical and problem-solving skills, with a strong attention to detail.\nGood communication skills and a highly collaborative approach to working within cross-functional teams.\nAn eagerness to learn and rapidly adopt modern data engineering practices, cloud tools, and frameworks.\nFluency in spoken and written English, Cantonese, and Mandarin\nDesired Skills & Experience:\nBasic scripting and development skills in Python or a similar programming language.\nFamiliarity with Git or standard version control systems.\nBasic exposure to cloud ecosystems such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure, or AWS.\nFamiliarity with modern data stack architectures or tools (e.g., dbt, BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks).\nConceptual or practical experience with BI tools (such as Power BI or Tableau).\nLife at WPP Media & Benefits\nOur 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.\nWPP 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.\nWe believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. 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