Senior Data Engineer - Contract

London  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Senior Data Engineer

Permanent

London

ITV is the biggest commercial television network in the UK. Behind every famous face, there are hundreds of others, all doing their bit to make things happen. We love telly, we're passionate about content and most importantly we understand our audiences. As a growing international company, we're commercially minded and have a global focus. We're all about pushing the boundaries and being innovative.

We have an exciting new opportunity for a Senior Data Engineer with development and data processing experience to join our Online Technology team. Within the Online Technology department, we're changing the way we work with data, by building Real Time processing systems that will be the foundations for new product features, Business Insight, Marketing, and other data-driven projects.

As a Senior Data Engineer is a very important new role within the Data Services team at ITV. You will be responsible for building and operating the data processing system as well as helping to shape and improve it. This role collaborates closely with Product, Business Intelligence, Operations and other interested parties within ITV.

Your duties will include, but not be limited to:

  • Building, running, and scaling data processing pipelines based on Google's Cloud Dataflow

  • Monitoring and resolving data integrity, performance, and availability issues

  • Assisting other engineering teams integrating with our data pipelines

  • Being a champion for new products and technologies

  • Refining data capture specs to support analysis requirements

  • Working closely with consumers to ensure all data produced is correct, reliable, and useful.

Skills and Experience:

  • Proficient in Java development

  • Excellent communication skills

  • Node.js experience, or a desire to learn

  • Experience working with public cloud services - GCP, AWS, etc

  • Automated testing/TDD

  • Exposure to streaming data processing tools, eg Dataflow, Spark, Storm etc

  • Basic data analysis

  • Experience running production services

  • Familiarity with Linux and Shell Scripting

  • A degree in Computer Science or a related field is beneficial

Our people are our greatest asset and as an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds to work both in front of and behind the cameras.

"ITV, where creativity, diversity and collaboration put us right at the heart of popular culture."

Start date
ASAP/Neg
Duration
6 months
From
ITV PLC
Published at
23.06.2017
Project ID:
1366522
Contract type
Freelance
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