BBC Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
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Package Description
Job Reference: 14516
Band: D
Salary: Up to £64,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Office Base is Newcastle. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with one day a fortnight in Newcastle.
Flexible working: We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application.
Career progression: Excellent career progression and unrivalled training and development opportunities.
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.
Introduction
Product Group is responsible for the design, development, and delivery of the BBC’s portfolio of digital products.
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.
Role Responsibilities
The Senior Data Engineer is a new role that will support the newly created 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.
* Develop robust and scalable data pipelines to ingest, transform, and analyse large volumes of structured and unstructured data.
* Contribute to initiatives to enhance data quality, governance, and security.
* Break down stakeholders' requirements into smaller tasks and identify the best solution.
* Build innovative solutions to acquire and enrich data from various sources.
* Guide team members on designing, developing, testing, and building automation workflows.
* Conduct insightful database design and implement key indexing schemes.
* Participate in building and testing business continuity & disaster recovery procedures.
* Evaluate and provide feedback on future technologies and new releases/upgrades.
Are you the right candidate?
When it comes to data engineering at the BBC we look for these skills:
Technical Skills
* Experience (3+ years) in a data engineering or analytics engineering role.
* Strong knowledge of Data Warehouse technologies.
* Extensive use of cloud technologies such as AWS and GCP.
* Excellent SQL and Python skills.
* Experience in deploying and scheduling code bases.
* Comfortable working alongside cross-functional teams.
Teamwork and Stakeholder Management
* Ability to listen to others’ ideas and build on them.
* Ability to communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences.
* Ability to collaborate effectively towards the team’s goals.
* Ability to prioritise and bring others on the journey.
* Strong attention to detail.
About The BBC
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC. Diversity matters at the BBC. We value and respect every individual's unique contribution.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Information Technology
Industries
Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
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