IIRIS Marketing Data Engineer

Company Description

Informa is a leading international events, intelligence and scholarly research group.

We’re the specialist’s specialist. Through hundreds of powerful brands, we work with businesses and professionals in specialist markets, providing the connections, intelligence and opportunities that help customers grow, do business, make break throughs, and take better informed decisions.

Informa is listed on London Stock Exchange and a member of FTSE 100, with over 10,000 colleagues working in more than 30 countries.

IIRIS is a platform and suite of products designed to help us know, reach, and build better informed customer connections through insightful data gained through multiple interactions with Informa’s highly specialised communities.

Job Description

As a key member of the IIRIS team, you will help develop strong relationships with customers and collaborate with cross-functional leaders to deliver consistently excellent customer experiences.

You will be passionate about using analytical skills to identify problems, find solutions, and improve relationships. To succeed in this role, you should have relevant technical data engineering experience and be able to demonstrate a strong track record of delivery of key customer focused data/marketing platforms.

Your Role:

• Design and build robust SQL data engineering pipelines
• Work with a team of data engineers, architects and database administrators working in an agile, fast-paced environment
• Drive adoption of the new Customer Data Platform across the business
• Be extremely hands-on with SQL and data transformations
• Provide suggestions and recommendations on how to improve the overall data engineering architecture towards a scalable, cost effective ecosystem
• Monitor and support new and existing data pipelines
• Bring an innovative mindset, thinking outside the box marketing

Your Deliverables:

• Evolve the Customer Data Platform and ensure the adoption of the platform is robust
• Contribute on the development of the Customer Data Platform in all aspects from data ingestion to modelling to oversight of the success of the customers using the platform
• Ensure the business-as-usual activities related to data loading and processing are running within agreed SLAs
• Heavily involved User Acceptance Testing, writing test cases, testing data continuously to produce a robust data platform
• Support implementation of Informa’s Customer Data Platform to support exceptional customer experience

Qualifications

Qualifications

• Excellent knowledge of prevailing SQL/Non-SQL technologies such as Amazon Redshift, Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, Microsoft SQL Server, etc.
• Excellent understanding of enterprise data warehousing principles of ETL/ELT and the tools/technologies used to implement them
• Solid understanding of Marketing Analytics and the Martech/Adtech Industry a plus. 
• Good knowledge of, and working experience in Python
• Experience of Website tagging and realtime ingestion of such data (snowplow, google, tag manager)
• Experience using CI/CD pipelines (code repositories like Bitbucket, Jenkins)
• Experience with Agile methodology including WIP management, backlog grooming/prioritisation, reporting and dashboards, preferably using Jira
• Knowledge and working experience on data management technologies and frameworks, preferably on Python, Airflow, DBT
• Experience with Digdag, Embulk, Presto is a plus
• The ability to use and explain ML algorithms with a view use predictive modelling within the Customer Data Platform is a plus
• Programmatic advertising experience is a plus

Additional Information

Additional Information

Alongside a competitive salary, Informa also offers the following employee benefits:

• Season ticket loan & Cycle2work
• Money purchased pension scheme & life assurance
• Eye care and childcare vouchers
• 25 days annual holiday, increasing to 27 days after 2 years, plus an extra day off for your birthday
• Our Learning team supports year-round development
• Informa's colleague Share Incentive Plan matches every share purchased with 2 free shares
• Informa offers a £250 Healthy Lifestyle subsidy to spend on fitness activities and classes
• You are given permission to take days off to volunteer with an approved scheme