Data Engineering Specialist

Why this job matters

Our Data Engineering teams are building our next generation Data platforms and are our main contributors to materialise BT Digital strategy. This role ensures that our BT data flows into our Analytics platforms and they are available for exploitation of our BTB Division. You will be working in a very creative environment where you will contribute to the design and building of our Data pipelines and supporting our new Data Science products.

What you’ll be doing

• Work closely with our internal teams of Solutions Architects, Data Designers, Source System Experts and other stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into a technical implementation and design documentation and write code to build our Data pipelines.
• Monitor and maintain our data pipelines focusing on improving their performance.
• Recommending the correct technologies to be used and in the most cost effective manner.
• Leave code better than you found it (and fully commented) and participate in Code Reviews.
• Maintain and enforce a good standard of coding and adhere to the same conventions as the rest of the team
• Work in an SecDevOps environment

The skills & experience you need

Key skills identified as:
• Experience with analytic warehouse solutions, data movement from data stores into analytic warehouses, and with performance/scalability improvements.
• Hands on and deep experience working with Google Data Products (e.g. BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc, AI Building Blocks, Looker, Cloud Data Fusion, Dataprep, etc.).
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL modern data stores.
• Solid Python programming skills in Python
• Streaming experience ( e.g. Kafka)
• LLM/Experience in creating ML models, worked on MLOps

Other skills beneficial for the role are:
• Ab Initio/ETL tools
• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
• Experience with Big Data, PaaS, and IaaS technologies.
• Worked as a team lead
• Experience using version control and CD/CI tools (e.g GITLAB, Jenkins, et al.)
• Official Google Data Engineer Certification 
• Experience writing and deploying Terraform scripts
• Communicate complex ideas effectively to stakeholders at all levels.
• Knowledge and experience of using Agile.

Our leadership standards

Looking in:
Leading inclusively and Safely
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.

About us

BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.

Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding. 

We value diversity and celebrate difference. ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’

We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.  

This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

DON’T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT?

Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway – you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.