Senior Data Engineer

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time 
DEPARTMENT: BBC Studios COO Group 
LOCATION: London - Television Centre
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: Up to £65,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

WE ARE BBC STUDIOS

A globally renowned media company borne of the BBC. We make and distribute the world’s most sought-after TV, audio and digital content.

Our ambition is to be the home of the most powerful, entertaining, and inspiring stories for people all around the world.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

Join BBC Studios as a Senior Data Engineer and play a key role in evolving our data platform. You’ll design, build and own secure, scalable and trusted data pipelines that power critical products and insights across the organisation.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you’ll help shape core patterns, standards and platform capabilities, influence technology choices, and raise the bar for engineering and data quality. Your work will enable teams to make better data driven decisions and support products and services used by millions of people globally.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

You’ll join a passionate, empowered team where ideas are welcomed, debated, and turned into action. We focus on doing meaningful work well - using modern tools, strong engineering practices, and shared ownership to continuously improve how data works across BBC Studios. 

With a people‑first culture, genuine flexibility, and strong support for learning and progression, you’ll have the space to grow and make a real impact.

ABOUT THE DATA PLATFORM

Our data platform supports a wide range of audience, content and commercial use cases. It processes large scale event and relational data to power analytics, reporting, experimentation and downstream products across BBC Studios, with a strong emphasis on data trust, security and governance.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

• Develop high quality, automated pipelines for ingesting, transforming and publishing data, ensuring reliability, scalability, security and performance across the platform.
• Ensure data pipelines and platform capabilities are built with appropriate security, privacy and governance controls, protecting audience data and enabling its safe, compliant use across BBC Studios.
• Contribute to (and often lead) the design of core blueprints, standards and capabilities, influencing technology choices, workflows and tooling.
• Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, partnering with engineers, architecture, product and data governance to deliver high quality solutions for our internal and pan-BBC partners.
• Stay up to date with emerging data and platform technologies, help evolve ways of working, and support the growth of others through knowledge sharing, mentoring and coaching as the team scales.
• Support the platform in production, contributing to shared operational responsibility and incident resolution when required.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Experience leading large-scale data-centric initiatives.
• Excellent collaborator: Experience of stakeholder management and comfortable mentoring, coaching, developing and supporting others.
• Experience with SQL, DBT and familiarity with Data Warehousing technologies, including pipeline orchestration.
• Strong engineering practices, including security by design, writing clean, well-tested and maintainable code, and working with CI/CD platforms.
• Knowledge of database design, big data processing technologies, and building scalable data pipelines.
• Delivery focused, with experience working effectively with Scrum or Kanban methodologies.
• Familiarity with Cloud technologies and IAC, preferably AWS and Terraform.
• Experience using AI assisted development tools (e.g. Copilot) to improve development efficiency.

DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED:

• Knowledge of one or more high-level languages, preferably Python or JavaScript.
• Experience using Agentic AI tooling such as Codex, Claude Code.
• Familiarity with Snowflake DWH.

If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

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.

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