Job Band
Job number 20748
Job Band: C
Starting salary: up to £58,500 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract Type: Continuing
Location: Newcastle
Excellent career progression
The BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
Unrivalled training and development opportunities
Our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
Benefits
We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack.
Interview Process
This is a 2-stage interview process. Both are virtual for shortlisted candidates; the first is a 30-min technical interview based on your experience, the second is a 1-hour interview focusing on a take-home exercise, competency, and values-based questions. Interviews will begin the week commencing 3rd February 2025.
Introduction
Product Group is responsible for the design, development, and delivery of the BBC's portfolio of digital products, including iPlayer, Sounds, Bitesize, and the BBC News and BBC Sport apps and website. Our portfolio is diverse and contains some of the largest and highest-profile properties on the UK internet. We're a huge streaming media destination, a news source trusted across the world, a provider of educational and entertaining content to children of all ages, and a sports results, analysis, and commentary service. Data is fundamental to our future: both in helping us prioritise and shape our work and in creating richer, more personalised experiences for our audiences.
Key Responsibilities
The Senior Analytics Developer is a new role that will support the newly created Product Data Domain teams. Working as part of our multi-disciplinary data teams, you will help to create clean, tested, well-modelled trusted datasets around our digital estate for use across the BBC. You will be building and maintaining data pipelines through best practices to support teams across the BBC in delivering quality products and content.
Role and responsibilities will comprise of:
1. Designing, implementing and maintaining data models that promote a self-service approach to data consumption.
2. Automating data pipelines using proprietary BBC technology & Airflow.
3. Involvement in planning the data the BBC collects online.
4. Contributing to the creation of processes for data product development.
5. Supporting analytics, data science and other colleagues outside the digital product area.
6. Supporting junior colleagues within the team.
7. Building and maintaining strong working relationships.
8. Working across mobile, web, television and voice platforms.
Are you the right candidate?
When it comes to analytics developers at the BBC we look for these skills:
Technical Skills
1. At least 5 years' experience in a Data Analyst, Data Engineering or Analytics Engineering role.
2. Excellent SQL skills for extracting and manipulating data.
3. Good knowledge of analytical database systems (Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery).
4. Comfortable working alongside cross-functional teams.
5. An understanding of how digital products use experimentation.
6. Some experience coding in R or Python.
7. A good understanding of on-demand audio and video media products.
Teamwork and stakeholder management
1. Ability to listen to others' ideas and build on them.
2. Ability to clearly communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences.
3. Ability to collaborate effectively.
4. Ability to prioritise.
5. Strong attention to detail.
About the BBC
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. We care about our values and behaviours. Diversity matters at the BBC. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. #J-18808-Ljbffr