Principal Data Engineer
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Job Description
JOB PROFILE
JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent Full-time
DEPARTMENT: Product Group
LOCATION: Salford
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: up to 87000 depending on relevant skills knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Were happy to discuss flexible working. If youd like to please indicate your preference in the application though theres no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
video Modernise the BBC
The Principal Data Engineer is a role that will support the 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. 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 BBCs portfolio of digital products.
Including iPlayer Sounds Bitesize and the BBC News and BBC Sport apps and website our portfolio is diverse and contains some of the largest and highest-profile properties on the UK internet. Were a huge streaming media destination a news source trusted across the world a provider of educational and entertaining content to children of all ages and a sports results analysis and commentary service and much more besides. Its an unparalleled portfolio of products and our strength is our range and breadth. Working with the BBCs 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 just as television and radio have been over the last century.
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. And our portfolio means that weve got one of the widest most diverse and most exciting datasets to work within the UK.
YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT
Leads and architects on developing robust and scalable complex data pipelines to ingest transform and analyse large volumes of structured and unstructured data from diverse data sources. Pipelines must be optimised for performance reliability and scalability in line with the BBCs scale.
Lead initiatives to enhance data quality governance and security across the organisation ensuring compliance with BBC guidelines and industry best practices.
Prioritises stakeholders requirements and identify the best solution for timely delivery.
Leads on building automation workflows including monitoring and alerting.
Encouraging and mentoring team members in partnership with other disciplines to create value with data across the wider organisation.
Helps set standards for coding testing and other engineering practices.
Leads on the building and testing of business continuity & disaster recovery procedures per requirements.
Proactively evaluates and provides feedback on future technologies and new releases/upgrades based on deep understanding of the domain.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Essential Skills
Extensive (5 years) experience in a data engineering or analytics engineering role 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 teams goals and enabling others to succeed where possible
Strong attention to detail
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
