Senior Software Engineer

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: D

CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent

DEPARTMENT: B&EUT

LOCATION: London, Salford, Newcastle, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Bristol or Birmingham - Hybrid

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £60,000-£70,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

The BBC B&EUT team (Broadcast and End User Technology) ensure the delivery of content to online products and supports traditional transmission. We’re responsible for making sure that all the content coming into the BBC is handled correctly and moved on to the right distribution channels and then out to an audience of millions around the world.

As we do this we need to make sure that we have a good handle on the quality of what we receive, how things are moved through the supply chain and any issues and anomalies that slow down that process.

To support this we are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with a good experience of managing data platforms and visualisations to join the team and help us improve the visibility of this critical information.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

As an engineer in our team, you can spend 10% time of your time learning new skills, playing with new technology and developing yourself, because we understand the need to stay up to date and fresh in a constantly changing technical landscape.

We offer a warm welcome with full support settling in and foster a culture where everyone has an opportunity to succeed. We're deeply proud of our values, which are intrinsic to the way we behave every day. We take them seriously because we want our culture to thrive. We want people to really enjoy working with us and get a buzz from knowing that what they are doing is making a difference and enhancing people's lives.

Your Key Responsibilities And Impact

As Senior Software Engineer in this team you will have a role in shaping and designing the solutions to support a wide range of BBC stakeholders and supporting key audience facing products.

In your first few months with the team as well as getting to know the BBC and the people around B&EUT you will be working on our existing data ingest pipelines and tools to support data analysts creating, maintaining and improving our data handling and visualisation. This will involve working with a number of different sources and ensuring that we pull data together and manage it to enable the organisation to make sensible decisions. This role will be working alongside data analysts who are doing the core work around the presentation of the data but obviously any previous experience here is going to be useful. The core of the software engineering will be with the AWS platform creating integration and data pipelines from multiple sources and looking for innovative ways to manage the data as well as front ends to support and ease data entry.

Some of the current projects range from tools supporting D&I tracking to ensure we are meeting targets set by the government to full supply chain flows to see how media assets move across the BBC and identify bottlenecks.

The B&EUT Software Engineering team runs regular innovation events, hacks and cross team learning sessions and there is opportunity to learn from others and share your expertise.

Your Skills And Experience

A strong senior software engineer with a background in delivering quality solutions and supporting internal business teams. Good knowledge of AWS and managing data pipelines to merge multiple sources of data to allow detailed analysis.

Experience working in small and occasionally informal teams is an advantage, as well as being able to define and identify customer needs while working with business teams.

Essential Criteria

• Experience of working with data pipelines and ETL processes in AWS
• Experience of React or similar JavaScript front ends
• Proven experience delivering software to good quality including appropriate tests
• Strong understanding of data principles
• Experience with BDD and/or TDD practices
  
  

Desired But Not Required

• Knowledge of both SQL and NoSQL databases
• Experience with statistical models is an advantage but not essential
• Used to working in an environment using various source control solutions (Git, etc.) including branching & working with repositories
• Knowledge of the software development and software testing lifecycles
• Experience working in an Agile software development environment (Scrum)
  
  

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.

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.

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.

For any general queries, please contact: [email protected]

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.