Lead Engineer/Data Engineer

3 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Knewin Full time

Lead Data Engineer
Data Insights
Permanent
Office location: ITV White City
The range does not represent a longer term salary commitment for the role.
For more information please email TalkingCareers@itv.Shaping culture is in the DNA of ITV. So, it’s not surprising that you’ll find us in every home in the UK, our productions are famous all over the world and we’re at the forefront of the digital streaming revolution.
With opportunities to learn, to grow and make a real difference. Our data team is responsible for helping us realise the value of data. That could mean anything from up-skilling and training our people, to increasing our revenue through experimentation and personalisation. The Innovation strand consists of Data Scientists, Operational Researchers and Behavioural Scientists. As we enter the fourth industrial revolution, anyone who joins the team will have the opportunity to work on genuinely groundbreaking innovations so that we can continue to blend science into a creative business.
As a Lead Data Engineer, both directly and via your team, you will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and optimising our data pipeline infrastructure using our proprietary central data platform (Symphony), which is based on Databricks. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement scalable data solutions, ensuring efficient data ingestion, transformation, storage, and analysis.
This is a hands-on leadership role where you will be responsible for a small team of data engineers. You will work in partnership with your agile delivery manager and product manager to size up and breakdown work, and distribute that across your team, and be proactive in bringing that activity to closure.
Deliver technical leadership monitoring productivity and output; contributing to reviews and performance assessment of a small number of data engineers
· Ownership and delivery of the design, development, and maintenance of scalable data pipelines, infrastructure and data products using Databricks. Including implementation of efficient and reliable data ingestion, processing, and storage solutions at scale and prototyping new approaches.
· Develop and optimise extract, transform, load (ELT) processes ensuring smooth flow of data from various sources into the data platform. Perform data cleansing, validation, and enrichment to support accurate and reliable data analysis.
· Ensure adherence to data architecture principles, best practices and processes, collaborating with data scientists, analysts and stakeholders capturing and defining data requirements, designing appropriate data models and architectures whilst optimising data storage formats and partitioning for efficient data retrieval and analysis.
· Monitor and optimise data pipelines and workflows to ensure high performance and reliability. Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, data quality issues, and data integration challenges.
· Define the data quality characteristics of your data products and work with the QA team to implement automated quality processes to measure data correctness and report outcomes through our observability infrastructure
· Implement data governance practices and ensure compliance with ITV data privacy and security regulations. Establish data access controls, encryption mechanisms, and data retention policies. Ensure all data products conform to all observability requirements and suitable dashboards are in place.
· Work closely with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, analysts, and software engineers, to understand their requirements and provide data engineering support. Document data pipelines, workflows, data presentation implementations and technical specifications for future reference.
· This will include writing and giving presentations to the wider team
· Extensive experience leading small teams of data engineers
Experience designing and building Databricks data products
Strong programming skills in languages such as Python (PySpark preferred), Scala, or SQL
Experience in owning, designing and implementing data pipelines ingesting enterprise levels of data volume with strong knowledge of data engineering concepts, data integration, and ETL processes
Ability to write production-grade code including automated testing and able to deploy code via CI/CD platforms (e.g. Experience in Proficiency in working with distributed computing frameworks, such as Apache Spark and data modelling, database systems, and SQL optimisation techniques
AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and associated services (e.g., Knowledge of the UK broadcast industry & broadcast/OTT advertising market and digital marketing and advertising industry
Data design techniques for classification and regression as well as knowledge of A/B testing, experimental design, and general statistical modelling
Architecture disciplines such as Data Mesh Architecture, Data Architecture, BI Architecture and Enterprise Architecture
Data governance, data privacy, and security principles.
Tools across other data management capabilities – data engineering, data governance, data quality, metadata management and master data management
Designing and building out data visualisation solutions based on technology such as: Tableau, AWS QuickSight, Looker, ThoughtSpot

~ ITV strongly encourages applications for this role from disabled people. As a Disability Confident Leader, if you meet the minimum criteria for a role and you have declared that you are disabled, we’ll guarantee to take you to the next stage* (minimum criteria above).
Find out more about applying with a disability.

~ ITV offers some great rewards and benefits including:

Flexible working with a range of options
Generous holiday allowance, plus you can buy more
Annual bonus opportunity
Competitive pension contribution
Wellbeing and volunteering days plus a wide range of opportunities to help you live a balanced and healthy life



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