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.
Essential Criteria
Your Skills and Experience
* 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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Disclaimer
This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.
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.
Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our recruitment 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.
Redeployment: The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals who are not at risk.
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