Senior Business Intelligence Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><h3><strong>Who We Are</strong></h3> <p>VML, part of WPP, is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce, creating connected brands to drive growth. VML is celebrated for its innovative and human first, award-winning work for blue chip client partners including AstraZeneca, Colgate-Palmolive, Dell, Ford, Microsoft, Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wendy's. The agency is recognized by the Forrester Wave™ Reports, as a Leader among Marketing Creative and Content Service Providers, Commerce Services, Global Digital Experience Services, Global Marketing Services and, most recently, Marketing Measurement &amp; Optimization. In addition, VML’s specialist health network, VML Health, is one of the world’s largest and most awarded health agencies. VML’s global network is powered by 26,000 talented people across 55+ markets, with principal offices in Kansas City, New York, Detroit, London, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, and Sydney.</p> <p><strong>About WPP</strong></p> <p>WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite&nbsp;cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel&nbsp;in a single company –&nbsp;powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open,&nbsp;to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit&nbsp;<u><a href="http://wpp.com/" data-outlook-id="2714312b-312f-4651-9f88-d8a4e47547bc">WPP.com</a></u>.</p></div><p>We are seeking a highly capable Senior Business Intelligence Engineer to lead the delivery of business-critical analytics used by hundreds of stakeholders globally across a large listed organisation.</p> <p>This role is responsible for architecting scalable, resilient, and modern data solutions across fragmented and complex source systems, while delivering high-quality analytics, reporting, and insight capabilities that support strategic decision-making across the business.</p> <p>The position sits within the Business Operations &amp; Transformation team, where data and analytics are viewed as a key strategic enabler for driving operational alignment, commercial focus, and organisational transformation.</p> <p>The ideal candidate will combine strong technical expertise with commercial and financial acumen, and will be comfortable engaging senior stakeholders across Finance, Commercial, Operations, Business Development and Technology functions.</p> <p>This is an opportunity to play a leading role in elevating WPP Creative’s strategic analytics capability.</p> <h3><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Architect and oversee scalable end-to-end data pipelines across fragmented and heterogeneous source systems.</li> <li>Design and implement robust ETL/ELT frameworks and modern lakehouse architectures.</li> <li>Build and maintain enterprise-grade data platforms, including ingestion pipelines, data warehousing, semantic models, and reporting layers.</li> <li>Deliver high-quality analytics, dashboards, and self-service reporting solutions using Power BI and Microsoft Fabric.</li> <li>Enable advanced analytics, automation, and data transformation using Python and SQL.</li> <li>Partner closely with Finance, Commercial, Operations, Business Development, and Enterprise Technology teams.</li> <li>Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, translating strategic business priorities into data and analytics solutions.</li> <li>Provide insightful analysis, recommendations, and performance reporting to support optimisation and decision-making.</li> <li>Develop and govern additional data collection practices to improve data availability and accessibility.</li> <li>Implement and maintain Row-Level Security (RLS) and data access controls across enterprise reporting and analytics solutions.</li> <li>Establish and promote governance, standards, and best practices for data quality, security and analytics delivery.</li> <li>Develop reusable semantic models.</li> <li>Support both strategic initiatives and ad-hoc analytical deep dives across operational and financial datasets.</li> <li>Drive adoption of data-driven decision-making across the organisation.</li> <li>Build strong relationships with technical and non-technical stakeholders across a matrix organisation.</li> <li>Contribute to the ongoing evolution of the organisation’s BI and data strategy.</li> </ul> <h3>Skills &amp; Experience</h3> <p><strong>Essential Experience:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Strong understanding of the modern data stack, including data modelling, warehousing, and large-scale ETL/ELT pipeline development.</li> <li>Proven experience architecting and managing complex enterprise data pipelines across fragmented systems.</li> <li>Deep expertise in: <ul> <li>Databricks</li> <li>Microsoft Fabric</li> <li>Power BI</li> <li>SQL</li> <li>Python</li> </ul> </li> <li>Strong understanding of modern cloud data architecture principles, including lakehouse and medallion architectures.</li> <li>Experience developing enterprise dashboards and self-service analytics capabilities.</li> <li>Strong business analysis skills with the ability to translate operational and financial challenges into technical and analytical solutions.</li> <li>Comfortable analysing and interpreting financial, commercial, and operational datasets.</li> <li>Experience operating within complex, matrixed, and transformation-focused organisations.</li> <li>Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and presentation skills.</li> <li>Comfortable balancing hands-on technical delivery with leadership responsibilities.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Desirable Experience:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience with ERP platforms such as Workday, Dynamics, Maconomy and SAP.</li> <li>Understanding of Azure cloud services and broader cloud ecosystem architecture.</li> <li>Experience implementing data governance, master data management, and compliance frameworks.</li> <li>Relevant cloud, analytics, or data platform certifications.</li> <li>Data collection design</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Personal Attributes</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Collaborative, influential, and delivery-focused.</li> <li>Comfortable operating in ambiguity and complex organisational environments.</li> <li>Strong attention to detail and commitment to data quality.</li> <li>Able to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.</li> <li>Naturally curious with a continuous improvement mindset.</li> <li>Passionate about leveraging data to drive business performance and transformation.</li> </ul> <p>#LI-EMEA #LI-TP1</p><div class="content-conclusion"><p><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB"><span lang="EN-GB">We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. 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