Senior Data Engineer (Contract 3 days per week)

VCCP is the global challenger network for challenger brands. With more than 1500 people across 13 offices in North America EMEA and APAC we challenge convention to deliver value for the worlds most ambitious organisations.

We believe transformation happens when everything works together. Thats why we bring specialists from every discipline - strategy AI data media digital experience branding creativity production PR CX CRM employee engagement and beyond - into one fully integrated network.

We were founded on the principles of simplicity collaboration and un-preciousness and weve grown by staying true to them. Today our clients include some of the worlds most recognisable and progressive brands such as Virgin Media O2 Barclays Cadbury Compare the Market Dominos White Claw easyJet Primark and Co-op.

VCCP has topped the AARs annual new business ranking in 13 of the last 14 years and holds multiple Agency of the Year titles. Across every company and every capability we share the same ambition: to challenge ourselves challenge our clients and challenge the industry for the better.

ABOUT THE ROLE

VCCP is looking for an exceptionally sharp hands-on Senior Data Engineer to join us on a contract basis to help architect and build our core data platform capabilities. The successful candidate must be able to start immediately.

This is a senior execution-focused role requiring a candidate who can hit the ground running immediately. You will take ownership of building robust scalable data infrastructure using Microsoft Fabric driving high engineering standards across data ingestion transformation CI/CD and dev process automation.

This role is a job share with another Senior Data Engineer who works 2 days per week therefore this role is part time 3 days per week (Tuesday Wednesday & Thursday).

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Data Platform Architecture & Build: Architect build and optimise scalable data pipelines and platform components within Microsoft Fabric.
• Ingestion & Integration: Design and implement robust data ingestion pipelines across a wide variety of sources including REST APIs database connectors event streams and batch feeds.
• Engineering & CI/CD: Establish and maintain modern development processes including Git workflows automated testing and CI/CD deployment pipelines for data artifacts.
• Performance & Optimization: Write clean modular and optimized production code in Python and SQL to handle complex data processing tasks efficiently.
• Best Practices & Standards: Enforce high code quality data modeling standards monitoring alert setups and documentation across the data lifecycle.

CORE REQUIREMENTS AND TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Microsoft Fabric: Deep practical experience building production-grade solutions within the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem (OneLake Lakehouses Warehouses Pipelines Data Factory Dataflows).
• Python & SQL Expertise: Advanced expert-level proficiency in Python (PySpark Pandas API orchestration) and complex analytical SQL.
• API & Ingestion Methods: Extensive experience ingesting data from varied source systems via REST/GraphQL APIs webhooks databases and flat files.
• Dev Process & CI/CD: Hands-on experience setting up CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps GitHub Actions or similar) automated testing frameworks and version control best practices for data teams.
• Platform Building Mindset: Proven track record of designing data platforms from early stage through to production delivery.

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP): Prior experience with GCP data tools (BigQuery Cloud Storage Dataflow) is advantageous though not mandatory.
• Agency/Media Experience: Previous exposure to marketing advertising or media agency data ecosystems.

VCCP DE&I STATEMENT

We believe that DE&I is about creating a strong culture of inclusion within our agency where everyone can thrive and be their authentic self. VCCP is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of gender age disability religion belief sexual orientation marital status or ethnicity. If you require any adjustments during the application or interview process please let us know via .

CRIMINAL RECORDS INFORMATION

As part of our onboarding process you will be required to complete a Criminal Records Declaration regarding any unspent convictions. For roles in finance HR Legal IT or senior management we may be required to verify your declaration with a basic DBS check as well as an Adverse Finance and ID check.