Data & Analytics Permanent - Full Time Newcastle-upon-Tyne, GB, NE991RN BBC PUBLIC SERVICE B'CAST Job Closing Date: 26/01/2025 THE ROLE
Job number 20748 Job Band: C Starting salary: up to £58,500 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights. Contract Type: Continuing Location: Newcastle 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 negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk. For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk. Interview Process This is a 2-stage interview process. Both are virtual for shortlisted candidates; the first is a 30-min technical interview based on your experience, the second is a 1-hour interview focusing on a take home exercise, competency, and values-based questions. Interviews will begin the week commencing 3rd February 2025. Introduction
Product Group is responsible for the design, development, and delivery of the BBC’s portfolio of digital products, including iPlayer, Sounds, Bitesize, and the BBC News and BBC Sport apps and website. Our portfolio is diverse and contains some of the largest and highest-profile properties on the UK internet. We’re a huge streaming media destination, a trusted news source, and a provider of educational and entertaining content. Data is fundamental to our future: both in helping us prioritise and shape our work and in creating richer, more personalised experiences for our audiences. Key Responsibilities
The Senior Analytics Developer will support the newly created Product Data Domain teams. You will help to create clean, tested, well-modelled trusted datasets around our digital estate for use across the BBC. You will be building and maintaining data pipelines through best practices to support teams across the BBC in delivering quality products and content. Your role will include: Designing, implementing and maintaining data models that promote a self-service approach to data consumption. Automating data pipelines using proprietary BBC technology & Airflow. Involvement in planning the data the BBC collects online and developing the BBC’s data collection framework. Contributing to the creation of processes for data product development. Supporting analytics, data science and other colleagues in managing projects and fielding queries. Supporting junior colleagues within the team. Building and maintaining strong working relationships across teams. Working across mobile, web, television and voice platforms. Are you the right candidate?
We look for the following skills: Technical Skills
At least 5 years’ experience in a Data Analyst, Data Engineering or Analytics Engineering role. Excellent SQL skills for extracting and manipulating data. Good knowledge of analytical database systems (Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery). Comfortable working alongside cross-functional teams. Some experience coding in R or Python. A good understanding of on-demand audio and video media products. Teamwork and Stakeholder Management
Ability to listen to others’ ideas and build on them. Ability to clearly communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences. Ability to collaborate effectively. Strong attention to detail. About the BBC
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment and values diversity in its workforce. We welcome applications from individuals regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. 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.
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