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Salary: up to £55,000 plus London Weighting Allowance of £5,441 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Location: Office Base is London, Television Centre. This is a hybrid role, and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.

WE ARE BBC STUDIOS

A globally renowned media company borne of the BBC. We make and distribute the world’s most sought-after TV, audio and digital content.

Our ambition is to be the home of the most powerful, entertaining, and inspiring stories for people all around the world.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

Step into the heart of British creativity at BBC Studios as a Data Platform Engineer. You’ll architect and scale data infrastructure that fuels storytelling behind global hits like 'Planet Earth III' and 'Eastenders'. Using AWS, Node.js, and Terraform, you’ll empower teams with secure, high-performance tools that turn data into insight. Be part of a squad where innovation meets impact at one of the world’s most celebrated content studios.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

Join a collaborative, forward-thinking team shaping the future of data at BBC Studios. You’ll work with cutting-edge tech to build scalable solutions that support award-winning content and global platforms. It’s a chance to grow your skills, influence meaningful projects, and contribute to a culture that values creativity, excellence, and continuous learning, all within a company that’s redefining storytelling through data.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

As a Data Platform Engineer, you will be instrumental in designing, building, and maintaining the core data infrastructure at BBC Studios. Working closely with other members of the Data Platform Squad, you will create automated and scalable solutions that enable data engineers, analysts, and product teams to seamlessly access and process large volumes of data. This is a hands-on engineering role that involves utilising a variety of modern technologies and best practices, such as AWS cloud services, Terraform for infrastructure as code, Node.js microservices, and the Snowflake data platform, to deliver reliable, and high-performance data tools and services

You will also:

• Deliver secure, scalable data platform components that improve productivity and reduce friction for data teams.
• Proactively monitor, optimise, and improve system reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Continuously collaborate with stakeholders to understand their needs and refine the platform’s capabilities.
• Ensure that platform solutions are well-documented, tested, and aligned with best practices in both software engineering and data governance.
• Demonstrate a willingness to learn and adapt within a newly created and continuously evolving platform environment.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Strong experience building and maintaining infrastructure on AWS (e.g., EC2, Lambda, S3, IAM, Route 53).
• Strong experience developing backend services using Node.js (TypeScript experience is a plus).
• Demonstrable proficiency with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code principles.
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration tools.
• Proven knowledge of SQL and familiarity with relational database concepts
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and DevOps best practices.

DESIRABLE BUT NOT REQUIRED:

• Exposure to other programming languages (e.g. or Python) for data tooling and automation.
• Understanding of data governance, security, and compliance standards.
• Experience with Snowflake or a similar cloud data warehouse platform.

NEXT STEPS

We appreciate your interest in this position and understand how important this opportunity is to you. Due to the high volume of interest we may need to close the application period earlier than anticipated. This step is necessary to ensure we can provide a high level of attention and service to all applicants. Thank you for your understanding.

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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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. 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.

Redeployment

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.

Information at a Glance

This is your BBC

At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world’s best loved content, and the BBC’s mission to inform, educate and entertain.

Life at BBC Studios

• A flexible 35-hour working week with 26 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) and the option to buy an extra five days.
• Defined pension (up to 10% employer contributions).
• Caring and parenting support, 24/7 remote GP access, life assurance and accident benefit.
• BBC Studios is a world leader in operating sustainably both on and off screen. Find out more about BBC Group’s science-based Net Zero targets here .
• Career development in a values-led purpose-driven culture.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis.

Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.

You belong

We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.

Disability confident

We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we’d be happy to discuss: reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk

BBC Group and Public Services, Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London, United Kingdom, W1A 1AA. BBC Studios Distribution Limited, company no: 01420028, registered address: 1 Television Centre, 101 Wood Lane, London, United Kingdom W12 7FA.