Feeds & Automation Engineer
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Remote US
Ad Tech (Flashtalking) – Client Solutions /Full-time /Remote
Mediaocean is powering the future of the advertising ecosystem technology that empowers brands and agencies to deliver impactful omnichannel marketing experiences. With over $200 billion in annualized ad spend running through its software products, Mediaocean deploys AI and automation to optimize investments and outcomes. The company's advertising infrastructure and ad tech tools are used by more than 100,000 people across the globe. Mediaocean owns and operates Prisma, the industry's trusted system of record for media management and finance, Flashtalking, the world's largest independent ad server and creative personalization platform, as well as Protected Media, the MRC-accredited ad verification solution for brand safety and fraud detection. Visit www.mediaocean.com for more information.
What You Will Do:
Feeds developers create custom processes that ingest and optimize data for dynamic ads within the Flashtalking platform. Developers will use predefined workflows and tools to work within and build custom process. Most often Feeds developers are working with product catalog data that is structured in the google merchant feed format. Product catalogs contains all of the information a retail has on their products, productIDs, images, product click through, prices, size, color, etc.
In this position you will interact with the US Feeds team who will determine technical requirements, outline data transformations, and description the campaign strategies. All of this information will be communicated through Jira tickets, emails, slacks, and phone conversations (if necessary). You will need to work within the predefine set of tools to meet the described requirements.
Responsibilities will include:
- Translate written Jira requirements into ETL processes
- Create product catalogs by synthesizing multiple data sets and performing data transforms
- Use FTPs, PHP on AWS EC2 instances, Mongo, and Power Feeds (Flashtalking proprietary platform) to load and manipulate product data
- Use Flashtalking developed tools to create CRON Jobs and run scheduled ETL process
- Learn product functionality of Power Feeds and understand it’s technical advantages and limitations
- Use error monitoring tools to ensure that any ETL processing errors are caught and flagged to the larger team
- Follow best practices that have been outlined by the Feeds team
- Document and call out issues within the data or Jira requirements