Data Engineer

JOB BAND: C
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: BBC Studios COO Group
LOCATION: London - Television Centre
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £34,000 - £42,000 plus £5,441 London Weighting 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 Data Engineer play a key role in evolving our data platform. You'll design, build and support secure, scalable and trusted data pipelines that power critical products and insights across the organisation.

This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys working hands on with data, values strong engineering practices, and wants to grow their skills while contributing to data products used at global scale.

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 your career while making 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

• Build and maintain high quality, automated data pipelines for ingesting, transforming and publishing data.
• Ensure data pipelines follow agreed standards for reliability, scalability, security and performance.
• Work with senior engineers and architects to implement core platform patterns, tooling and capabilities.
• Apply appropriate security, privacy and governance controls to protect audience data and enable its safe, compliant use.
• Collaborate closely with engineers, product, analytics and data governance partners to deliver valuable data solutions.
• Support the platform in production, contributing to monitoring, incident resolution and continuous improvement.
• Continuously learn and stay up to date with data engineering tools, technologies and ways of working.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• Experience building or supporting data pipelines for analytics or data platforms.
• Strong SQL skills and experience working with data warehouses and transformation tools (e.g. dbt).
• Understanding of data modelling and good database design practices.
• Familiarity with pipeline orchestration and automated data workflows.
• Good engineering practices: writing clean, maintainable code, testing, and working with CI/CD pipelines.
• Comfortable working in an agile delivery environment (Scrum or Kanban).
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and infrastructure-as-code concepts (preferably AWS and Terraform).
• A collaborative mindset and ability to work effectively within a team.

DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED

• Experience with Python or another high level programming language.
• Familiarity with large scale data processing technologies.
• Exposure to Snowflake or similar cloud data warehouses.
• Experience using AI assisted development tools (e.g. Copilot, Claude) to improve productivity.

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 being considered who are not at risk.

Disability confident

We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we'd be happy to discuss:

BBC Group and Public Services, Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London, United Kingdom, W1A 1AA. BBC Studios Distribution Limited, company no: , registered address: 1 Television Centre, 101 Wood Lane, London, United Kingdom W12 7FA.