Technical Data Analyst

Why we're hiring:

WPP IT provides IT services for WPP, the world’s largest communications services group. As a creative transformation company, WPP is helping its clients transform the future through extraordinary work. WPP IT is an integral part of that journey, and we are proud to provide technology for some of the world’s most creative brands.

What you'll be doing:

• Work with business and technical staff to capture data requirements, document existing business rules, processes and procedures in conjunction with detailing existing data flows within current operational systems
• Perform data exploration and analysis: use statistical tools and techniques to explore and analyze data, identifying patterns, relationships, and trends
• Provide query assistance to Data management (Matrix/Investment system platform) users, including ad hoc queries and operational support as needed
• Work closely with engineering and QA team to support ongoing development.
• Perform post-development Quality Assurance testing to ensure functionality has been developed to required specifications
• Support Product Owners & Technical Leads by identifying system efficiencies and functionality enhancements that should be considered
• Triage and document reported system issues to identify root-cause of reported problems. Initiate bug-fix tickets to track development when needed and oversee ticket through to Production rollout and resolution.

What you'll need:

• Education: completed university studies in Computer Science, Information Technology, Mathematics, Economics or comparable. Combination of education/experience that would enable incumbent to meet essential duties and required competencies of the position is required.
• Personality and Working Practice: team player, excellent communication skills, analytical thinking and structured
• Experience and Knowledge:
  • 2+ years’ work experience in a data-centric role: data warehousing technologies and tools, ETL (extract, transform, load) tools, SQL databases, writing database queries (T-SQL), data modeling techniques, analyzing large data sets, etc.
  • Strong analytical skills to identify patterns and insights from large and complex data sets
  • Demonstrable experience working with software development and collaboration tools such as MS Teams, Miro, GIT or Azure DevOps
  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel
  • Experience of data visualization products, such as PowerBI is a plus but not essential.
  • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
  • Media / advertising industry experience is a plus
  • Languages: Excellent English skills, any other language is a plus

Who you are:

You're open_:_ We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are accepting: of new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.

You're optimistic_:_ We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.

You're extraordinary: We are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.

What we'll give you:

Passionate, inspired people – We promote a culture of people that do extraordinary work.

Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.

Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?