Data Engineer, YouView

Salary not provided

SQL

AWS

Python

Tableau

Looker

Java

Athena

Redshift

Spark

Qlikview

Junior, Mid and Senior level

London

1+ day a week in office

Subscription-free and easy-to-use TV service

Job no longer available

Subscription-free and easy-to-use TV service

201-500 employees

B2CEntertainmentDigital MediaSaaSMedia

Job no longer available

Salary not provided

SQL

AWS

Python

Tableau

Looker

Java

Athena

Redshift

Spark

Qlikview

Junior, Mid and Senior level

London

1+ day a week in office

201-500 employees

B2CEntertainmentDigital MediaSaaSMedia

Company mission

To bring together online media and the traditional broadcast services into a single, easy to use product that makes connected television an everyday viewing experience.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

A self-starter - you take the initiative in spotting opportunities and finding ways to solve the problems large quantities of data bring
Ability to explain your technical work in a clear way to various stakeholders of different levels
Able to demonstrate how you have automated a complex, error-prone, or otherwise time-consuming tasks
Hands on experience with a programming language such as Python or Java
Knowledge and skills to turn complex business requirements into scalable, robust, and explorable data products
Familiarity with Big Data technologies such as Spark and Redshift and working with data at significant scale
Familiar with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts and tools like AWS CloudFormation
You can write efficient SQL statements across multiple language variations – such as PostgreSQL, Amazon Athena etc
You can quickly get a grasp of any dataset that you are working with
Familiarity with BI data tools such as Looker, Tableau, QlikView or similar

What the job involves

YouView collects millions of data points daily and we are looking for a Data Engineer with a passion for big data to help us turn this data into actionable insights. As part of an agile team, you will work with product owners, engineers, external stakeholders, and data scientists from across the business to help us develop the systems and models needed to deliver a cutting-edge TV experience that UK households love
Work with engineers, data scientists, product managers, external stakeholders, and data users to understand data needs
Design database schema’s to make the most of the available features of different databases
Write well-constructed SQL to solve problems of varying complexity by generating different cuts of data for facts, dimensions, and aggregates
Understand and gradually become an SME of a set of complex data specifications
Be able to investigate into data generation/quality issues
Use DBT to orchestrate and run/unit test our SQL, write Jinga templates to run in life tests to monitor our data transformations, and perform data validation
Deploy services via Cloudformation and Github Actions
Identify and tune bottlenecks within the Data Lake/Data Warehouse/BI Tooling

Salary benchmarks

Our take

YouView is a subscription-free TV service with over 70 live digital channels. A joint venture between the major UK TV channels and broadband providers, it combines seven-day catch-up with a library of on-demand television programmes, films and radio.

Broadly available as part of broadband bundles as well as at major retailers, YouView is a well-established and well-known brand in the space. Atop its broad range of content it also boasts record, pause and rewind features - making it an attractive option for modern viewers.