Data Engineer, Communications Intelligence & Insights

<div class="content-intro"><h3><strong>Who we are:</strong></h3> <p>Burson, part of WPP, is the global communications leader built to create value for clients through reputation. With highly specialized teams, industry-leading technologies and breakthrough creative, we help brands and businesses redefine reputation as a competitive advantage so they can lead today and into the future. When you work at Burson, you are part of a global community of lifelong learners who thrive at the edge of innovation.</p> <p>WPP (LSE/NYSE: WPP) is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit <a href="WPP.com">WPP.com</a> </p> <p>For more information visit <a href="https://www.bursonglobal.com/">bursonglobal.com</a> and follow us on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/burson/posts/?feedView=all">LinkedIn</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/burson.global/?hl=en">Instagram</a>.</p></div><p><strong>More About the Role</strong></p> <p><strong></strong></p> <p class="isSelectedEnd">Are you interested in building the systems that underpin how modern communications intelligence is measured, analysed and scaled?</p> <p class="isSelectedEnd">Burson’s EMEA Intelligence & Insights Hub is a centralised production and engineering capability responsible for developing the data infrastructure, pipelines and workflows that power monitoring, measurement and reporting across the region. Bringing together engineers and analysts, the Hub builds scalable platforms, integrates multiple external data sources and develops AI-enabled workflows that enhance both the efficiency and quality of intelligence delivery.</p> <p class="isSelectedEnd">As a Data Engineer, you will play a key role in developing, maintaining and optimising the engineering systems that sit at the heart of the Hub’s delivery model. You will work across core platform engineering, client-specific solutions and AI workflow development, helping to evolve The Fount and Burson’s wider Data & Intelligence technology stack.</p> <p class="isSelectedEnd">Our technology ecosystem is built on a modern, highly integrated cloud and relational database architecture. Core data-processing pipelines are developed using object-oriented Python and run through scalable cloud-compute orchestration and enterprise ETL tools. Managed SQL environments provide our relational system of record, while raw and semi-structured assets are maintained within secure cloud object storage.</p> <p class="isSelectedEnd">Advanced language models are integrated directly into our processing pipelines to automate enrichment at scale, with the wider ecosystem managed through GitHub, Azure DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code.</p> <p>This is an opportunity for an engineer who enjoys solving complex data challenges while building reliable, scalable and reusable systems that support analysts, client teams and global stakeholders.</p> <p><strong></strong></p> <p><strong>What you'll do:</strong></p> <p><strong></strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Build, develop and maintain Burson’s core data platform and pipelines</strong>, supporting scalable ingestion, transformation, storage and delivery of intelligence data across the EMEA Hub.</li> <li><strong>Design and manage robu