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JOB DETAILS

Job band: D

Contract type: Permanent, Full-time

Department: Product Group

Location: Newcastle, London, Salford or Glasgow - Hybrid

Proposed salary range: up to £87,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.

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 Principal Data Engineer will support the Product Data Domain teams. You will help 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

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. Working with the BBC’s content divisions, our focus now is on driving engagement across our portfolio so that the BBC online becomes a valued daily habit for all audiences.

Data is fundamental to our future, helping us prioritise and shape our work and create richer, more personalised experiences for our audiences.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT

• Lead and architect robust and scalable complex data pipelines to ingest, transform, and analyse large volumes of structured and unstructured data from diverse sources.
• Lead initiatives to enhance data quality, governance and security across the organisation, ensuring compliance with BBC guidelines and industry best practices.
• Prioritise stakeholders’ requirements and identify the best solution for timely delivery.
• Lead on building automation workflows, including monitoring and alerting.
• Encourage and mentor team members in partnership with other disciplines to create value with data across the wider organisation.
• Help set standards for coding, testing and other engineering practices.
• Lead on building and testing of business continuity & disaster recovery procedures per requirements.
• Proactively evaluate and provide feedback on future technologies and new releases/upgrades based on deep understanding of the domain.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS

• Extensive (5+ years) experience in a data engineering or analytics engineering role in AWS, 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.

DESIRABLE SKILLS

• 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.

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.

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.

For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk.

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants.