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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Data Engineer - **Company:** Specialist Ltd - **Location:** Greater London, UK (Remote available) - **Experience:** Experienced - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Airflow, Amazon Web Services, Business Logic, Microsoft Azure, Bash Shell, Cloud Engineering, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Information Engineering, Data Governance, Data Integrity, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Dataspaces, Data Systems, Database Queries, Linux, DevOps, Github, Python (Programming Language), Marketing Information Systems, Power BI, Cloud Services, Shell Script, SQL Databases, Tableau (Software), Google Cloud, Backend, Gitlab, Git, Data Pipelines - **Published:** August 30, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2815459532-data-engineer ## About the Role * 2-3 years of full-time Python and SQL experience * Experience working in a media agency, or with media and marketing data (both digital and non-digital) * Experience and understanding of how APIs extract data from various platforms * Experience briefing, designing and implementing ETL solutions end-to-end, from requirements gathering through to deployment * Experience with data orchestration tools (e.g. Airflow, Prefect) and building scalable data pipelines * Strong Git and collaborative development skills (e.g. GitHub, GitLab) * Strong understanding of data fundamentals: MDM, data integrity best practices, auditing processes, automated validation * Cloud DevOps experience (e.g. Azure, GCP, AWS) * Strong experience translating business and data needs into technical requirements * Ability to communicate technical concepts and requirements in non-technical language * Back-end development for visualisation and dashboarding products (Power BI, Tableau, Datorama). Experience with Adverity would be extremely valuable. Nice to have: * Experience working with Linux VMs * Shell scripting experience (e.g. bash, zsh) * Creating or using Git hooks * Continuous integration / continuous deployment tooling experience * Basic awareness of platform costing and infrastructure trade-offs, so cost or infrastructure issues get caught early * A creative eye for spotting and prototyping improvements to reporting and manual workflows, ideally backed by examples of processes you've streamlined. We provide an exciting, fast paced, people first environment that allows everyone to grow, learn and thrive. ## Description As a TSW data engineer you will be a key member of a dynamic media activation team, and a critical part of our service delivery to clients. You will oversee the integrity and evolution of our reporting and attribution platforms. Day to day you'll be responsible for creating, monitoring, maintaining and optimising data pipelines within the TSW data ecosystem, primarily using Azure and the Adverity platform. This means writing SQL queries to generate bespoke reporting outputs, troubleshooting code issues, and implementing changes to futureproof the code. You'll also collect information for new scopes, investigate new data sources and devise the business logic to get to the desired output. You will work closely with our head of digital delivery to create bespoke marketing intelligence reports for clients, bringing together data from multiple sources to enable campaign activation and automation. As part of this you'll collaborate closely with internal stakeholders, suppliers, and clients to ensure that data is provided correctly and that our data solutions adhere to the data governance required. You'll have a big say in our data product roadmap and how it's deployed. Your input will help shape the processes and tools we use to drive efficiency in our data team and across the business. This role is suited to someone with a strong background in Python, SQL and cloud services (Azure, GCP and AWS). A media agency or marketing data backgroundis essential for this role. * Own delivery of new and existing ETL pipelines, and data engineering projects for the agency and wider group * Work collaboratively with media teams and other business partners to make sure data is available and interpretable across the business * Provide client-facing support with onboarding and troubleshooting for our data solutions * Help shape the continuing evolution of our data ecosystem, bringing your experience to product design and architecture discussions, and collaborating to suggest, develop, design and write new solutions * Own work across various DevOps tasks, managing cloud infrastructure in support of our data solutions * Ensure adherence to data governance and data security best practices throughout our ecosystem * Be an internal champion for our data solutions, encouraging adoption and supporting smooth implementation * Work in a friendly but assertive way with colleagues, suppliers and clients to get things done to our standard., We are dedicated to embedding social and environmental responsibility into every aspect of our business. You'll contribute to initiatives that promote social equity, diversity, and inclusion within our workplace and in the content, we create, whilst actively supporting and promoting sustainable best practice by, continuously working to minimise waste, (for example, water & cardboard recycling), prioritise eco-friendly suppliers, (for example, renewable energy switch), and promote remote work to reduce carbon emissions. 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