Job Description

Data & Analytics
Permanent - Full Time
Glasgow, GB, G511DA London, GB, W1A 1AA
BBC PUBLIC SERVICE B'CAST
Job Closing Date: 0406/2025

THE ROLE

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Package Description

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Job Reference:

24092

Band:

C

Salary:

Up to 53,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Contract type:

Permanent role

Location:

Office base is either Glasgow or London. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.



We're happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

Excellent career progression

- the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.

Unrivalled training and development opportunities

- our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.

Benefits

- We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack.





If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk. For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk.

Job Introduction

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Are you a data analyst with a keen interest in metadata and data management or a data manager with a data analytics mind?





Do you want to work in a team embedded in all aspects of content distribution, content analytics and metadata management?





The Content Metadata team is responsible for creating and managing the metadata that powers the BBC throughout its lifecycle; from commissioning, to digital experiences, audience analytics and back, Content Metadata is at the heart of our mission to provide value to our audiences





This means asking ourselves some big questions: what does high quality metadata look like? How can we measure the impact on our audiences? And how can metadata help us inform, entertain and educate audiences across the UK and beyond?





To help us achieve this, we are looking for a keen data professional to join our team and support the delivery of great reports and visualisations to profile and illustrate our metadata.





We are a hybrid co-located team in Glasgow and London working closely with a variety of other data disciplines (data science, data analytics, data engineering, data governance) as well as engineering and editorial teams.

Interview Process

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Shortlisted candidates are expected to complete an assignment which will be reviewed during the technical interview.





Two stage interview:


90 minute technical interview with members of the Content Metadata Quality team for value-based questions and review of the assignment

Max 45 minute with members of the wider Content Metadata team

Main Responsibilities

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Some examples of the work you may be asked to tackle:


Carry out metadata governance and data quality measurement activities Carry out data investigations to understand the root cause of quality issues Create dashboards and data visualisation products Support the creation of ad-hoc reports for stakeholders


The technologies we use:


RDF Relational databases (e.g. Postgres) Graph databases (e.g. Neptune) Document stores AWS products (Lambda, EC2, RDS, S3) Tableau and Tableau Prep

Are you the right candidate

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Essential Skills


Significant data and metadata management experience, ideally in media and entertainment Knowledge of data modelling and understanding of different data structures and their benefits and limitations under particular use cases Hands-on experience with SQL Hands-on experience with Tableau or similar tools (e.g. PowerBI) Experience of working collaboratively across a diverse set of stakeholders Collaborative, and understanding. Able to work as part of a team Excellent written and verbal communication skills




Desirable


Experience with Python or R Experience with AWS or other cloud services Experience with RDF and Turtle Experience of working with Graph Database (Neptune or similar) and SPARQL Experience of working with document databases (MongoDb or similar) Some familiarity with monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery of data systems and knowledge in different programming or scripting languages. Experience with agile or other rapid application development methods Broadcast, production, start-up or media experience A mix of public sector and commercial experience Experience working in media and/or publishing industries Qualification in computer science, computer engineering, information technology, information management, library science or other technical discipline, or equivalent experience

About the BBC

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The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons 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.





We don't focus simply on what we do - we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you've read about our values and behaviours here.





Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.





We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC - whether that's to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.





We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.





To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here.

DISCLAIMER

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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.