Lead Technical Solutions Engineer (South Korea)

Media.Monks is a digital-first marketing, data, advertising and technology services company connecting the dots across content, data & digital media and technology services. Inspired by the connectivity and flexibility of technology APIs, Media.Monks’ single-P&L model offers brands seamless access to a nearly 9,000-strong team of digital talent organized across 57 talent hubs in 33 countries.

The Role’s Responsibilities

We’re hiring for a Lead Solutions Engineer. The scope of the role covers three categories:

• Internal cloud and software engineering services
• Client-facing cloud, data, and software engineering services, and
• Broad technology support to our Account Management and fulfillment teams.
• Connecting business requirements and domain knowledge with technology

In this role you will be leading a team of solutions engineers delivering technology solutions. The role is for engineering leads who are true entrepreneurs and take on the role of engineer, consultant, and platform specialist.

Excellent communication skills in both English and Korean are a must, along with the perseverance to solve problems that may not have obvious solutions. You may need to “Think out of the box” or “hack around” a problem to solve it. We like that!

You Will

• Lead and mentor a team of talented engineers
• Manage, direct, and prioritize projects
• Maintain our technical relationship with our technology partners
• Be aware of the latest cloud, data and software technology trends and look for opportunities for these trends to help grow our business
• Provide training on core technology and services
• Collaborate with leads in other regions to understand to keep a pulse on technical developments and provide resource capacity
• Build innovative tools to address compelling commercial use cases that are valuable to our clients and that help grow our business
• Write technical documentation and provide training on the tools we build to other engineers and account managers across the globe
• Provide solutions engineering services along the lines of data integration, platform migration, workflow and process automation and technical architecture consulting.
• Provide technical guidance on complex platform and implementation issues

Qualifications & Experience

• Exceptional leadership, project management, analytical problem solving and troubleshooting skills
• Current architecture and data engineering certifications for GCP (or being ready to pass these before joining the company)
• Experience with Cloud based Data Engineering and ETL solutions
• Working knowledge of relational and non-relational databases
• Excellent Python and Node.js coding skills
• Able to speak confidently about solutions to peers and other engineers
• Ability to translate technical concepts to non-technical people
• Ability to prioritize a number of projects and collaborate across technical teams of different disciplines.

Bonus Points

• Experience deploying to AWS, Azure and other Cloud Platforms
• Experience with terraform or similar “infrastructure as code” solutions
• Familiarity with GMP, GA360 and Adobe cloud services
• Knowledge of non-GMP site side product, tagging, analytics platforms (Adobe Analytics, Adobe Launch, Tealium, Segment Amplitude)
• Previous sales, support, consulting, or biz dev experience

Technology Used

• Node.js, JavaScript, Python
• GitHub
• Postman, Charles Proxy
• Google Marketing Platform (GA, GTM, CM, DV360),
• Google Cloud Platform
• Adobe Analytics Stack (Adobe Analytics, Launch and Target)

About Media.Monks

Media.Monks is on a mission to create a new future for this industry. Our vision? Build everything with a belief that changing for good comes from changing who does the work. Yep, that means you. Welcome to the party—one global, cross-cultural collective with a passion for using our skills to create better and a better world. That’s how we’re able to connect the dots between data, content, digital media, and technology from everywhere we are—a true end-to-end model. Joining the Media.Monks collective means having the opportunity to create award-winning work with some of the most gifted, focused, joyful, talents from all over the world.

At Media.Monks, you’ll be joining a highly ambitious company on a global mission to win the decade by changing the industry for good. Partner to 8 of the 10 most innovative companies in the world, Media.Monks works with established as well as up-and-coming global, regional, DTC and B2B brands, helping them own their data and build out customer ecosystems to elicit smart, efficient, high-impact engines for growth. We deliver table stakes quickly, creating cost efficiencies from day one to push up the creative effectiveness of our work with every cycle.

We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.