Job Introduction
Fancy working on one of the largest media datasets in the world?
The BBC's world-class online products (iPlayer, News, Sport, Sounds, and more) reach millions of audience members every week, and create upwards of 1 Billion rows of data per day.
Working in a talented team of 4 engineers you will learn new skills and build key pipelines that keep the business moving. You'll also get involved in bringing data science solutions to life and help to build out our in house data science platform .
This is a varied and challenging role, where you will be working with decision makers, data scientists and data engineers to scope and build solutions using the latest cloud technologies. You will have an opportunity to manage your own projects and help set the direction.
Role Responsibility
What you'll be doing:
- Building data pipelines using Apache Airflow, AWS, Redshift, Spark and more
- Collaborating with data scientists to bring models to life
- Develop our in house data science platform (MAP) using the latest tech (Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Flask)
- Collaborating with data scientists to bring models to life
- Promoting engineering best practices in the data science and analytics teams
Are you the right candidate?
You'll have experience of the following:
- Building and maintaining data pipelines on Apache Airflow or similar
- Python & SQL skills with a couple of years hands on experience
- Scripting experience usingi.e. bash, Makefiles and or linux
- Code management and deployment (code quality, version control, deployments, CICD, etc.)
- Developing and deploying in the cloud (AWS, GCP or Azure)
- Working with a data lake, data warehouse or similar
- Handling data at scale
- Managing your own workloads and working across multiple tasks
- Communicating with decision makers, project managers and end users
- Desirable
- Big data processing technologies, e.g. Hadoop, Spark
- Deploying / maintaining infrastructure in the cloud (using infrastructure as code e.g. Cloudformation, Terraform)
- Working with (or knowledge of) Kubernetes
- Experience of working alongside Data Scientists or in an analytical role
Package Description
Band: C
Contract type: Full Time Permanent
Location: London
We're happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application . There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
- 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 competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.
About the BBC
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 in the document attached below.
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.
To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here
