Software Engineer (Data) Software Engineer (Data)

Freelancers are eligible to apply for an internal role if they are on a Worker Contract and they have worked continuously for 6 months. If they have worked for less than 6 months continuously or have a break of 3 weeks or more between engagements, they must seek Divisional HR approval to apply for an internal role prior to submitting an application. If they are unsure which contract they are on, they can speak to their booker or the HR BP, however if it helps - both a PAYE freelance or Modus Gross contract is considered a Worker contract and covered by the Worker terms found here.Job Introduction Media Distribution Analytics is the BBC's team that knows what your streaming experience was while watching Wimbledon on iPlayer or listening to your favourite podcast on BBC Sounds. The BBC's future is dependent on delivering content to an ever-growing online audience and setting the industry standard for a world-class ondemand and live streaming experience. That means playing content back flawlessly and offering the best quality media to our audience, so that we continue to deliver news, entertainment and the UK's most prestigious live events that delight our audiences. To achieve these goals the Media Distribution Analytics team develop the data products and pipelines that ingest, measure and visualise the audience experience and allow us to take action, often in real-time, in addition to informing long term capacity requirements and performance. This is a data engineering team that processes enormous quantities of data, and works closely with device playback and the BBC's own internal Content Distribution Network (BIDI) teams, as well as third party network suppliers, to help make the online streaming experience the best it can possibly be.Main Responsibilities We focus on hiring for potential at the BBC, so the main requirement for the position is a strong software engineering skillset. We want to hear from skilled engineers and technical experts from all industries.

• Design and build data products to understand media distribution within the BBC.
• Maintain and extend a petabyte-scale media distribution datalake and ETL
process.
• Develop our realtime stream processing pipeline used for operational monitoring.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and engineers to find new requirements, ensure
products are impactful and add value.
• Nurture culture of engineering excellence
  
  In a nutshell, we seek an enthusiastic engineer who is looking for a diverse challenge, is willing to learn, and upholds the BBC's values, all while driving technical excellence. We look to grow and develop our engineers and give them the skills they need to deliver for the BBC and progress in their own careers. If this sounds like your cup of tea, we'd love to hear from you.
Essential skills and experience:
• Enjoy creating data products and working with big-data technologies
• Practical experience maintaining large batch/streaming data processing pipelines using technologies including Flink/Spark/BEAM/Kafka
• Experience with programming languages used for data engineering and associated services: Java/Python/SQL/Go
• Experience deploying code to cloud platforms and using CI/CD methods and Infrastructure as code to streamline development using tools like Make, Amazon CDK, Terraform and Github Actions
• Experience working with a variety of data storage technologies, from RDBMS, to Data Warehouses and object storage systems
• Experience using tools like DBT, Apache Iceberg/HUDI/Delta Lake to build extensible data analytics processes with maintainable data models
• Ability to work independently and maintain high standards
• Have worked with data visualisation platforms: Grafana/Looker/PowerBI/Tableau
  
  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.

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.