Senior Data Engineer Senior Data Engineer

The BBC B&EUT team (Broadcast and End User Technology) ensure the delivery of content to online products and supports traditional transmission. We're responsible for making sure that all the content coming into the BBC is handled correctly and moved on to the right distribution channels and then out to an audience of millions around the world.

As we do this we need to make sure that we have a good handle on the quality of what we receive, how things are moved through the supply chain and any issues and anomalies that slow down that process.

To support this we are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with a good experience of managing data platforms and visualisations to join the team and help us improve the visibility of this critical information.

As an engineer in our team, you can spend 10% time of your time learning new skills, playing with new technology and developing yourself, because we understand the need to stay up to date and fresh in a constantly changing technical landscape.

We offer a warm welcome with full support settling in and foster a culture where everyone has an opportunity to succeed. We're deeply proud of our values, which are intrinsic to the way we behave every day. We take them seriously because we want our culture to thrive. We want people to really enjoy working with us and get a buzz from knowing that what they are doing is making a difference and enhancing people's lives., As Senior Software Engineer in this team you will have a role in shaping and designing the solutions to support a wide range of BBC stakeholders and supporting key audience facing products.

In your first few months with the team as well as getting to know the BBC and the people around B&EUT you will be working on creating, maintaining and improving our data handling and visualisation. This will involve working with a number of different sources and ensuring that we pull data together and manage it to enable the organisation to make sensible decisions. This role will be working alongside data analysts who are doing the core work around the presentation of the data but obviously any previous experience here is going to be useful. The core of the software engineering will be with the AWS platform creating integration and data pipelines from multiple sources and looking for innovative ways to manage the data as well as front ends to support and ease data entry.

Some of the current projects range from tools D&I tracking to ensure we are meeting targets set by the government to full supply chain flows to see how media assets move across the BBC and identify bottlenecks.

The B&EUT Software Engineering team runs regular innovation events, hacks and cross team learning sessions and there is opportunity to learn from others and share your expertise., In the first session, we will ask you to explain a technical architecture which you helped to deliver. We will ask questions around the architecture, the decisions made and your role in them. This will be scored on your ability to effectively communicate the architecture and the reasoning behind it, as well as your ability to provide answers to follow up questions. As this interview will be conducted remotely, you will want to prepare a diagram to share.

The second session will take a more traditional questions and answers style interview. In this session we will learn more about your experience of the full development lifecycle, the previous projects you have worked on and roles you have had, as well as your approach to team processes.

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. 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.

We don't focus simply on what we do - we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you've read about our values and behaviours here.

Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC - whether that's to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

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. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

We focus on hiring for potential at the BBC, so the main requirement for the position is a strong testing mindset.

Some of the things we love:

• Experience of working with data pipelines and ETL processes in AWS



• Experience of React or similar JavaScript front ends


• Proven experience delivering software to good quality including appropriate tests


• Strong understanding of data principles


• Experience with BDD and/or TDD practices


• Knowledge of both SQL and NoSQL databases


• Experience with statistical models is an advantage but not essential


• Used to working in an environment using various source control solutions (Git, etc.) including branching & working with repositories


• Knowledge of the software development and software testing lifecycles


• Experience working in an Agile software development environment (Scrum)
  
  Our comprehensive benefits package includes:



• An employer pension contribution of up to 10%


• 26 days' annual leave (based on full time hours) + bank holidays and the option to buy/sell additional days


• Contributory lifestyle benefit options including discounts at hundreds of retailers, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym memberships and healthcare schemes


• Employee assistance and well-being programmes


• Learning and development tailored to your role - this could include industry recognised qualifications, coaching and mentoring


• An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join staff networks including: Women's Network, National Disability Networks and many more.


Family friendly flexible working arrangements, such as hybrid working, job sharing, flexi-time and compressed hours can be requested.

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and especially welcome individuals from underrepresented groups.