Associate Data Engineer 2023

We operate a ‘hub and spoke’ model for digital. The Central Data team supports business units across strategy, innovation, product, commercial, marketing. We are Subject Matter Experts and platforms owners for consumer data, eCRM, analytics & business intelligence. As part of a combined community of digital experts, the teams work in partnership to create outstanding services to our users and deliver commercial success.

As a team we thrive on combining local market excellence with a wider, global perspective.

The Focus of the Role

Join our dynamic team of data experts and drive the success of our company by shaping the data & analytics architecture that supports nearly 500 users and 200 well-known magazines and radio stations. As an Associate Data Engineer, you'll have the opportunity to work on diverse sources and blend them to create valuable insights for our brands and consumers.

From data ingestion to marketing strategy, you'll have a direct impact on various aspects of the marketing funnel. You'll work with the team on interesting projects such as SCV (Single Customer View), get involved with our ESP (Email Service Provider) and play a leading role in large-scale projects that will shape the future of our company.

Our team comprises of a diverse set of skills and backgrounds, who collaborate to share ideas and drive success across the business. With a wide range of tasks and projects, this is your chance to define your role and grow within the team.

Role Responsibility

• Help build out Bauer’s cloud based infrastructure and pipelines. Integrating more data and surfacing it into our business intelligence tool that supports Bauer products, services and brands.
• Support & develop our CRM database and work with the team to improve our data capabilities
• Provide in depth analysis of company performance metrics, and use this data to suggest and implement optimisation strategies.
• Collaborate with commercial, editorial, dev-ops, revenue and product teams in producing valuable tools and insight.

The Ideal Candidate

Core to role:

• Experience in SQL (Postgres, T-SQL, MySQL, etc). Must be highly competent in building complex database queries.
• Experience of using BI & Analytics Platforms (e.g. Looker, Power BI, Tableau)
• You will need to be a problem solver with a flexible attitude to managing projects, and senior stakeholder engagement.
• Time Management, able to manage your own time efficiently and keep regular communication with the senior team on work development
• Strong presentation skills

Nice to have or know:

• Some experience in using R or Python to build, maintain and orchestrate data pipelines across a business.
• Confident working with API’s and coding/scripting pipelines to surface and transform this data into analysis friendly assets using technologies such as BigQuery or Amazon Redshift.
• Web analytics technologies such as Google Analytics/Firebase to design end to end data solutions that deliver comprehensive digital insights.
• CRM data support, either through segmentation of users, or through data generation & permissions. Familiarity with CRM systems and exposure to Responsys or similar
• Ad tech support, ad partners, metrics and revenue, pipelines and 1st party data imports.
• Has developed Business Information (BI) reports to monitor KPI’s.

Package Description

Rewards packages at Bauer Media offer a range of salary sacrifice Benefits, such as our pension scheme and flexible holidays, as well as exclusive Perks like great deals and discounts for everyday life.

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Discounted high street vouchers
• Internal Bauer Academy – Wide range of learning opportunities to support with your Career Development (Bauer Media Group - Academy: Posts | LinkedIn)
• Opportunity to buy additional holiday
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme, tech loan scheme and groups discounts for healthcare insurance
• Discounted subscriptions on Bauer publications (50%)
• Thrive initiatives – Wellbeing at Bauer
• Opportunities to contribute to our Belonging@Bauer and Sustainability initiatives

Flexible Working

We want to make sure that we find the right people to work in our teams, and we know that the traditional 9-5, five days a week doesn’t suit everyone. So, we would love to hear from you if you feel you’re a great fit for this role and would like to work flexibly. If you are the right person for this role, we’ll find the right working approach for you.

We are actively seeking this position. You should hear from us within 48 hours of the expiry date. Please note on some occasions the role may be closed before date shown or need to be extended.

About the Company

Bauer Media Group has become an enduringly successful media corporation by focusing on creating content that matters most to millions of people around the world: from print and online publishing to radio and money-helper services for consumers, as well as sales and marketing services for SMB. Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer focuses on the long term, with a consumer-first mindset that guides us across our increasingly diverse portfolio. Our workforce of 15,000 shares a passion – to deliver content and services that are popular with, and helpful to, our customers and partners.

As the UK’s biggest selling magazine publisher, we create iconic and influential magazine media brands, digital properties and associated consumer and B2B live events for diverse, passionate audiences. We reach 25 million consumers through our portfolio, which includes heat, Grazia, Closer, Empire, Motor Cycle News, Parkers, Mother& Baby, TV Choice, Take a Break, Bella, Yours, Garden News and Country Walking. Our scale, coupled with the breadth of our portfolio, gives us an advantage over pure play magazine competitors. It also gives us a huge responsibility - our brands become the lens through which our audiences see the world, and for this reason, we take our responsibilities as a media outlet very seriously, recognising that we are responsible for shaping perceptions in the wider world.