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PACKAGE DESCRIPTION
Job Reference: 23500
Band: C
Salary: up to 55000 London Weighting (5319) depending on relevant skills knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Location: Office Base is London Television Centre. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.
ABOUT BBC STUDIOS
BBC Studios is a world-renowned content studio and channels & streaming business powered by British creativity with a reach that touches audiences in every corner of the globe. We work with outstanding creative talent who are responsible for platform-defining shows from Strictly Come Dancing to Eastenders Prehistoric Planet to Planet Earth III. The range and quality of our content is unsurpassed creating critical and commercial successes and global phenomena. From BAFTAs to RTS Awards BBC Studios is Britains most awarded production company and the only producer with three of the top ten shows on IMDB; were the home of the widest-read English language news website in the world; and the UKs largest distributor of British content.
ABOUT THE DATA PLATFORM TEAM
Our Data Platform Squad plays a pivotal role in empowering the wider business with the data and infrastructure tools needed to drive innovation insights and storytelling through data. We build and maintain the foundational technology stack that will underpin our data products ensuring that teams across BBC Studios can easily and securely access the information they need.
THE ROLE
As a Data Platform Engineer you will be instrumental in designing building and maintaining the core data infrastructure at BBC Studios. Working closely with other members of the Data Platform Squad you will create automated and scalable solutions that enable data engineers analysts and product teams to seamlessly access and process large volumes of data. This is a hands-on engineering role that involves utilizing a variety of modern technologies and best practicessuch as AWS cloud services Terraform for infrastructure as code microservices and the Snowflake data platformto deliver reliable and high-performance data tools and services
Part of the responsabilities will be also:
- Delivering secure scalable data platform components that improve productivity and reduce friction for data teams.
- Proactively monitoring optimizing and improving system reliability performance and cost efficiency.
- Continuously collaborating with stakeholders to understand their needs and refine the platforms capabilities.
- Ensuring that platform solutions are well-documented tested and aligned with best practices in both software engineering and data governance.
- Demonstrating a willingness to learn and adapt within a newly created and continuously evolving platform environment.
WHAT DOES IT TAKE
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:
- Strong experience building and maintaining infrastructure on AWS (e.g. EC2 Lambda S3 IAM Route 53).
- Strong experience developing backend services using (TypeScript experience is a plus).
- Demonstrable proficiency with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code principles.
- Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration tools.
- Proven knowledge of SQL and familiarity with relational database concepts
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines automated testing and DevOps best practices.
DESIRABLE CRITERIA:
- Exposure to other programming languages (e.g. or Python) for data tooling and automation.
- Interest or experience in front-end development particularly in building UIs for internal platforms (e.g. dashboards) using modern JavaScript frameworks such as React.
- Understanding of data governance security and compliance standards.
- Experience with Snowflake or a similar cloud data warehouse platform.
NEXT STEPS
We appreciate your interest in this position and understand how important this opportunity is to you. Due to the high volume of interest we may need to close the application period earlier than anticipated. This step is necessary to ensure we can provide a high level of attention and service to all applicants. Thank you for your
understanding.
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
Employment Type
Full Time
