Senior Data Engineer

Cardiff, GBR, CF10 1FT| Glasgow, GBR, G511DA| London, GBR, W1A 1AA| Newcastle-upon-Tyne, GBR, NE991RN| Salford, GBR, M50 2QH JOB DETAILS JOB BAND: DCONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-timeDEPARTMENT: BBC Product GroupLOCATION: London, Salford, Newcastle, Cardiff, Glasgow - HybridPROPOSED SALARY RANGE: Up to £69,773 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights. We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage. PURPOSE OF THE ROLE The Senior Data Engineer is a role that will support the Product Data Domain teams. You will help to build ETL pipelines to ingest and transform data to develop the data products that will power key value use cases across the BBC. You will work in an agile multi-disciplinary team alongside product analytics developers, product data managers, data modelers and data operations managers, ensuring that all work delivers maximum value to the BBC. WHY JOIN THE TEAM You will be working on cross-product strategic projects and cutting-edge technologies, surrounded by like-minded people. This work will align with and help inform the short and long-term data strategy. This is an individual contributor role that, while it does involve the mentoring of colleagues, will not involve line management responsibilities. YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT Develop robust and scalable data pipelines to ingest, transform, and analyse large volumes of structured and unstructured data from diverse data sources. Pipelines must be optimised for performance, reliability, and scalability in line with the BBC’s scale. Contribute to initiatives to enhance data quality, governance and security across the organisation, ensuring compliance with BBC guidelines and industry best practices. Break down stakeholders requirements into smaller tasks and identify the best solution. Build innovative solutions to acquire and enrich data from a variety of data sources. Work on one or more projects guiding other team members on designing and developing, testing, and building automation workflows. Conduct insightful and physical database design, design key and indexing schemes and design partitioning. Participate in building and testing business continuity & disaster recovery procedures per requirements. Evaluate and provide feedback on future technologies and new releases/upgrades based on their market knowledge of the domain when asked to do so. YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE Essential Skills Extensive (3+ years) experience in a data engineering or analytics engineering role, preferably in digital products, building ETL pipelines, ingesting data from a diverse set of data sources (including event streams, various forms of batch processing) Excellent SQL and python skills with experience in deploying and scheduling code bases in a data development environment, using technologies such as Airflow. Good working knowledge of cloud-based Data Warehousing technologies (such as AWS Redshift, GCP BigQuery or Snowflake) Demonstrable experience of working alongside cross-functional teams interacting with Product Managers, Infrastructure Engineers, Data Scientists, and Data Analysts Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to prioritise and a structured approach and ability to bring others on the journey Ability to listen to others’ ideas and build on them Ability to clearly communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences Ability to collaborate effectively, working alongside other team members towards the team’s goals, and enabling others to succeed, where possible Strong attention to detail If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply. Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer. Disclaimer This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved. Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory. The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of the other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk. Information at a Glance This is your BBC At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world’s best loved content, and the BBC’s mission to inform, educate and entertain. Life at BBC Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. Excellent career and professional development. Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer. A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do. Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis or on an orchestra conditions contract. Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack. Candidate pack We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential. You belong We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity. We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below. Disability confident We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we’d be happy to discuss: reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk BBC Group and Public Services, Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London, United Kingdom, W1A 1AA. BBC Studios Distribution Limited, company no: 01420028, registered address: 1 Television Centre, 101 Wood Lane, London, United Kingdom W12 7FA. #J-18808-Ljbffr