Cdp Technical Lead

Company Description
**About Dentsu Aegis Network**

When you join Dentsu Aegis Network - whichever of our network brands you join - you’re becoming part of one team. A team with diverse talents in media, creative content and technology. And one with a shared ambition: to innovate the way brands are built.

Our collaborative and agile ways of working means you’ll develop versatile skills and be exposed to new and exciting thinking. Combine that with a pioneering spirit aimed at making a positive impact on brands, society and each other - and you’ll soon realise why we’re at the forefront of the digital economy.

Together we make our mark. Together we embrace the true potential of disruption. And together - across all our locations - we help our clients win in a changing world.

If you want to belong to a one global network where opportunities are limitless - we look forward to welcoming you.

**Job Description**:
**The Role**

Come and join our team We're looking for a proactive, enthusiastic, creative lead developer and CDP (Customer Data Platforms) technical team lead for marketing technologies, to integrate into our growing team working across a diverse mix of clients.

The CDP Technical Lead role is a unique hybrid of business and technical consultancy, with the focus on CDPs (for example Bloomreach (formerly Exponea), Adobe Experience Platform, mParticle). As the Technical Lead for multiple client projects, you will implement these tools for some of the biggest companies in the world. You will be delivering high quality technical solutions to solve our clients’ problems. You will also be instrumental in forming and growing a CDP delivery team to scale with client CDP demand.

**Life as a CDP Technical Lead at Merkle**
- You will from part of a large team of highly skilled technical consultants - there is not much we don’t know about marketing technology implementation
- The team is experienced in multiple software technologies, you will have the option to cross train and enhance your knowledge - you could expand your product portfolio with a range of other tools (Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Braze, Adobe Campaign)
- Build and maintain cutting edge Customer Data Platforms with Bloomreach (Exponea), Adobe Experience Platform and Salesforce CDP and others
- Grow and lead a CDP delivery team to scale with client CDP demand.
- Own delivery tasks from initial requirements, through to design, development, testing, and deployment
- Demonstrate technical expertise while scoping and driving the creation of marketing and data solutions, ETL, platform configuration, APIs, integrations, and other platform development
- Proactively identify and resolve problems including client data feed issues and recommend appropriate courses of action
- Have the opportunities to become a certified expert in the different technologies you work with
- Help us continuously improve by identifying, creating, and enhancing internal systems and processes based on recurring client requests or evolving industry standards
- This role currently follows a hybrid way of working where you will work based in the local office (London or Barcelona) and remotely from home

**Qualifications**:
**What we are looking for in you**
- A technical background, demonstrated with a degree in a technical field (e.g., Computer Science, Business Information Systems) or equivalent experience
- Proven experience of architecting and delivering Customer Data Platform for organisations.
- Cloud development and implementation experience in one of the main providers (AWS, GCP or Azure)
- Experience with integrations between tools using APIs including testing
- Experience of delivering and understanding of databases, data warehouses, data lakes, data modelling, data integration and ETL concepts
- Experience of managing a team would be desirable
- Hands on experience in programming languages (SQL, JS, or Python) would be beneficial
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and teamwork skills; ability to interact with people of varying backgrounds, technical abilities, languages, and cultures
- Ability to adapt in a dynamic working environment and learn quickly, and passion for problem solving
- Ability to interpret technical and business objectives and needs, with attention to detail
- Marketing concepts experience/knowledge would be a bonus
- Be prepared to travel or work on Client/Partner sites when required, including short business trips to other regions and abroad

Additional Information
**A few of the benefits**
- You’ll have a competitive salary, private health & dental insurance, corporate discounts and career development through Dentsu University, free access to LinkedIn learning and degree level training programs through Multiverse
- 29+ days of annual leave (25 days of regular holidays, Birthdays off and 3 additional wellness days) We also offer the opportunity to volunteer for up to 2 days per year and tend to close down the agency between Ch