This is an opportunity to play a leading role in elevating WPP Creative’s strategic analytics capability.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and oversee scalable end-to-end data pipelines across fragmented and heterogeneous source systems.
• Design and implement robust ETL/ELT frameworks and modern lakehouse architectures.
• Build and maintain enterprise-grade data platforms, including ingestion pipelines, data warehousing, semantic models, and reporting layers.
• Deliver high-quality analytics, dashboards, and self-service reporting solutions using Power BI and Microsoft Fabric.
• Enable advanced analytics, automation, and data transformation using Python and SQL.
• Partner closely with Finance, Commercial, Operations, Business Development, and Enterprise Technology teams.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, translating strategic business priorities into data and analytics solutions.
• Provide insightful analysis, recommendations, and performance reporting to support optimisation and decision-making.
• Develop and govern additional data collection practices to improve data availability and accessibility.
• Implement and maintain Row-Level Security (RLS) and data access controls across enterprise reporting and analytics solutions.
• Establish and promote governance, standards, and best practices for data quality, security, and analytics delivery.
• Develop reusable semantic models.
• Support both strategic initiatives and ad-hoc analytical deep dives across operational and financial datasets.
• Drive adoption of data-driven decision-making across the organisation.
• Build strong relationships with technical and non-technical stakeholders across a matrix organisation.
• Contribute to the ongoing evolution of the organisation’s BI and data strategy.

Skills & Experience

Essential Experience:

• Strong understanding of the modern data stack, including data modelling, warehousing, and large-scale ETL/ELT pipeline development.
• Proven experience architecting and managing complex enterprise data pipelines across fragmented systems.
• Deep expertise in:
  • Databricks
  • Microsoft Fabric
  • Power BI
  • SQL
  • Python
• Strong understanding of modern cloud data architecture principles, including lakehouse and medallion architectures.
• Experience developing enterprise dashboards and self-service analytics capabilities.
• Strong business analysis skills with the ability to translate operational and financial challenges into technical and analytical solutions.
• Comfortable analysing and interpreting financial, commercial, and operational datasets.
• Experience operating within complex, matrixed, and transformation-focused organisations.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and presentation skills.
• Comfortable balancing hands-on technical delivery with leadership responsibilities.

Desirable Experience:

• Experience with ERP platforms such as Workday, Dynamics, Maconomy, and SAP.
• Understanding of Azure cloud services and broader cloud ecosystem architecture.
• Experience implementing data governance, master data management, and compliance frameworks.
• Relevant cloud, analytics, or data platform certifications.
• Data collection design

Personal Attributes:

• Collaborative, influential, and delivery-focused.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and complex organisational environments.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to data quality.
• Able to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Naturally curious with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Passionate about leveraging data to drive business performance and transformation.

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