Team Leader - Data Engineer

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VML (Wunderman Thompson)

Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark

Hybrid

Posted March 16, 2026

Job Description

Who We Are

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 & 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.

About WPP

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.

About us

We believe data, creativity and technology work best when they work together. Our mission is to shape the next era of media — one that’s smarter, more connected, and powered by insight. We’re part of a global network that values openness, collaboration and bold ideas. Here, you’ll have the chance to make an impact and grow your career and skill set with some of the best minds in the industry.

The Role

We’re looking for a Team Leader for a team of Data Engineers to accelerate our Open Intelligence data initiative, taking our data capabilities to the next level. You’ll play a central role in designing, building and maintaining the data connectors that feed data to Open Intelligence. It is a role that requires good communication skills and understanding of brand, adtech and marketing data and the benefits of well-engineered data pipelines. You will create systems that keep our global media ecosystem running ensuring that data is reliable, scalable, and reflects the needs of the business.

This is a hands-on technical role for someone who’s already comfortable delivering reliable data solutions, but who is also interested in leveraging new development- and testing technologies. It is also a leading role, where you will be expected to mentor the more junior members of the team, and have an overview of the activities on the team. Finally, it is a role that requires an individual who can communicate effortlessly with both stakeholders in the Product organization, and engineers on other teams.

The role is in our lovely Copenhagen offices at Nørrebro, where you will join a larger team of roughly 50 people working on Open Intelligence.

What You’ll Do

Build, manage and maintain data extraction pipelines with the help of AI coding assistants.
Pre-aggregate data in clean rooms using SQL-dialects when client or partner concerns demands it.
Fetch data through REST APIs using Python or Node.js when needed.
Communicate with our Product organization about addition of new data sources or changes to existing ones, and manifest those conversations as maintainable code.
Proactively identify and address technical debt and inefficiencies within our data platform.
Guide our regional teams in following your best practices for adding their local datasets to Open Intelligence, and act as a global knowledge center for data onboarding.
Collaborate closely with analysts and data scientists who leverage Open Intelligence, to make sure that data connectors work as expected.
Design and build strong data governance and quality frameworks to make sure connectors produced are accurate and work consistently throughout their lifetime.
Stay curious, explore new tools techniques and technologies that can help us move faster and smarter.