BBC Career Opportunities Principal Software Engineer

JOB ID: 51337
JOB TITLE: Principal Software Engineer
CONTRACT TYPE: Perm
DEPARTMENT: BBC Media Tech Platforms
LOCATION: London / Salford / Glasgow - Hybrid working
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: 80000 - 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.

Step into the world of the BBC one of the UKs most iconic and trusted brands where technology plays a critical role in delivering content to millions of people every day. Our Software Engineering teams build and operate innovative products and platforms that help keep the BBC at the forefront of the industry.

Core Data Platform is part of Data Platform providing trusted fast and reliable access to audience and business data that enables a more data-informed and personalised BBC.
We support personalised experiences across BBC products including iPlayer and Sounds while providing a platform used by 140 weekly active users across our data community including analysts scientists and role offers the opportunity to work with data at scale and build highly scalable data platforms and ingestion pipelines.

• Lead the optimisation performance and evolution of the organisations data lake and data warehouse platforms ensuring scalable cost-effective data services while enabling future architectural improvements and modernisation initiatives.
• Support and enhance the platforms and services that underpin audience personalisation and data access across the organisation enabling stakeholders to efficiently query analyse and consume data while maintaining the performance reliability and operational support of business-critical services.
• Partner with architects product leaders and stakeholders to shape the long-term technical vision technical goals and system architecture support architectural decisions for scalable and maintainable systems.
• Guide the use of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices with AWS CDK and CloudFormation to provision and manage secure and maintainable cloud environments. Design and support CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions AWS CodePipeline Jenkins and other tools with an emphasis on reliability reusability and performance. Contribute to the design and integration of monitoring and observability solutions (CloudWatch Grafana) to ensure infrastructure and Warehouse health.
• Champion software engineering excellence through Test-Driven Development (TDD) rigorous test automation and continuous quality assurance practices across team and wider department.
• Cultivate a high-performing engineering culture through mentorship knowledge sharing and thought leadership via deep dives brown bags internal tech talks and cross-team collaboration advocate for security best practices across the software development lifecycle using AWS-native tools and DevSecOps principles.

Essential

• Extensive experience in DevOps/DataOps roles with demonstrated impact in building scaling including progressive delivery strategies resilience engineering and performance optimisation. and securing Data warehouse such as Redshift infrastructure in cloud-native environments.
• Expertise with databases(Database: DynamoDB Redis Aurora Athena) and Strong experience with AWS services such as S3 EC2 SQS Lambda IAM Managed Airflow Athena etc VPC with a strong command of cloud solution architecture.
• Advanced proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code practices using AWS CDK CloudFormation with CI/CD best practices with hands-on expertise in GitHub Actions Jenkins and GitOps workflows.
• Deep understanding of cloud security governance and compliance with the ability to define and implement scalable security frameworks with a track record designing and developing software with scale security and reliability in mind.
• Extensive experience in at least one of the programming languages such as Python.

If you can bring some of these skills and experiences along with transferable strengths wed love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

Before your start date you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.