Senior Data Manager - Archives

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: D

CONTRACT TYPE:
Permanent

DEPARTMENT: BBC Archives Technology & Services

LOCATION:

Flexible, London Broadcast Centre or Glasgow Pacific Quays preferred. Hybrid, 2-3 days/week in the office

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £56,000 - £66,000 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.

Archives Technology & Services is responsible for managing one of the world’s largest media archives containing metadata about hundreds of thousands of programmes and their recordings.

The Archives Data Platform is a next generation cloud-based data platform to support discovery of Archive content, metadata management and data informed decision making. We are consolidating siloed data and enriching it using machine learning and AI to build a single unified content catalogue.

This is an excellent opportunity to work with great people, world class content and cutting‑edge technology.

You will be working with other data experts, engineers, product and delivery management colleagues. Together we are responsible for building the data platform and content catalogue using the latest cloud technologies as the foundation for content discovery, data management and reporting products.

This is a dynamic, hands‑on role that covers data architecture, data process design, data management and quality aspects.

• building the Archives data model to support existing data and processes with the vision for the future
• defining and implementing data management best practices
• defining and implementing strategy to measure and improve Archives’ data quality over time.

• specifying and overseeing work for data engineers and analysts to populate the content catalogue data model
• defining extensions to the content catalogue data model
• planning, detailing and organising data integration and data quality improvement projects
• analysing complex data sets, models and processes

• Proficiency in SQL, including regular expressions and querying complex data structures
• Experience in data process and ETL design and development, from start to finish
• Entity‑Relationship data modelling experience
• Good understanding and practical experience of core data management principles
• Ability to work on multiple projects in a rapidly changing environment

• Self starter, interest in learning new technologies and a passion for data
• AWS cloud development experience, including Athena and S3
• Data governance experience
• Ability to present data design (model and processes) solutions to non‑technical audiences
• Python or other scripting experience
• Experience with media metadata
• Experience of working with a multidisciplinary Agile team of analysts, engineers and product leads
• Attention to detail

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.

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.

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.

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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.