JOB DETAILS
Job Band: D
Contract Type: Permanent, Full-time
Location: London TVC
Department: Engineering
Proposed Salary Range: £60,000 – £70,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. Plus London Weighting Allowance of £5,441. The expected salary range 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. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
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
Join BBC Studios as a Senior Software Engineer within the Data Platform team, shaping a cloud‑first data ecosystem that underpins global content and audience experiences. You will design and build scalable infrastructure, APIs and enablement capabilities that empower teams to create and consume data products efficiently, contributing to a modern Data Mesh that drives insight, personalisation and commercial growth.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
You will work on a greenfield, cloud‑first data platform using modern technologies without legacy constraints. The team fosters a strong engineering culture focused on learning, ownership and continuous improvement. You will have opportunities to influence platform direction, collaborate across the BBC, and grow through structured development, mentorship and varied technical challenges that directly impact global products and audiences.
Your Key Responsibilities And Impact
- Design and deliver scalable backend services and APIs enabling self‑serve data product creation.
- Build and evolve AWS infrastructure using Terraform and modern cloud‑native patterns.
- Contribute to the development of an Internal Developer Platform and Data Mesh architecture.
- Collaborate across teams to deliver cross‑BBC data initiatives and shared capabilities.
- Mentor engineers and shape engineering standards, practices and delivery culture.
Essential Criteria
- Strong experience with backend development using TypeScript, JavaScript or Python.
- Proven expertise with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP.
- Experience designing secure, scalable RESTful APIs.
- Good understanding of CI/CD pipelines, testing strategies and version control.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform and containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes).
Desired But Not Required
- Experience with data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks or BigQuery
- Exposure to Platform Engineering concepts such as IDPs or DSLs
- Familiarity with modern AI‑assisted development tools
- Frontend experience with frameworks such as React or Next.js
- Knowledge of data governance, cataloguing or data discovery tools
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.
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.
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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.
Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Recruitment 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.
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.
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