Senior Data Engineer

ITV Jobs

Full-time

On-site

London, United Kingdom

£70,000 - £85,000 GBP yearly

Senior Data Engineer

Data

Permanent

White City | Leeds | Manchester

Hiring range: £70,000 - £85,000

For more information please email TalkingCareers@itv.com

Your work matters to millions.

Shaping culture is in the DNA of ITV. So, it’s not surprising that you’ll find us in every home in the UK, our productions are famous all over the world and we’re at the forefront of the digital streaming revolution.

When you join us, you enter a fun working environment. With opportunities to learn, to grow and make a real difference. Small enough that your impact’s felt in the business, but big enough that your impact reaches millions of people.

Come develop your skills, change TV and the course of your career. Don’t just watch it. Be part of it. Join ITV.

Your impact sends ripples.

The role

We're looking for a Senior Data Engineer to design and build scalable data solutions that power our analytics and machine learning initiatives. In this role, you'll tackle complex data challenges while helping establish technical standards across our data platform.

You will design and implement end-to-end data pipelines for complex transformations and large-scale processing, collaborating with cross-functional teams, including data product, platform, architecture, and analysts, to ensure optimal solutions. You will have a focus on enhancing data reliability through automated testing, monitoring, and quality frameworks, while mentoring junior engineers, reviewing technical designs, and contributing to decisions on tools, frameworks, and architectural patterns.

Skills you’ll need (minimum criteria)

Extensive hands-on data engineering experience working with distributed systems.
Deep expertise in PySpark is essential.
Hands-on experience with GCP and modern data tools (Airflow, BigQuery, etc).
Expertise in delivering production-grade code including automated testing and able to deploy code via CI/CD platforms (e.g. Github Actions, Jenkins).
Proven track record of building reliable, maintainable data pipelines that handle complex business logic.
Clear opinions on pipeline architecture, design + build patterns, performance optimisation, and quality assurance.

Other things we’re looking for (key criteria)

Cloud Platform: GCP/AWS
Apache Spark, Airflow, Messaging Queues,
Artifacts/ storage: Cloud Image Repos (i.e. Artifact Registry), GCS, S3, BigQuery
Languages: Python, SQL, and Scala are a plus but not essential.

ITV is for everyone.

ITV strongly encourages applications for this role from disabled people. As a Disability Confident Leader, if you meet the minimum criteria for a role and you have declared that you are disabled, we’ll guarantee to take you to the next stage* (minimum criteria above).

We're happy to discuss any support/personalisation you may need during our application and selection process as part of our reasonable adjustments. Drop us a line if you require anything at talkingcareers@itv.com.

Find out more about applying with a disability.

* There may be a few exceptions where we are not able to take all eligible candidates to the next stage due to the volume of applications.

Because those who make an impact deserve to be rewarded for it.

ITV offers some great rewards and benefits including:

Flexible working with a range of options
Generous holiday allowance, plus you can buy more
Annual bonus opportunity
Competitive pension contribution
Save as you earn - with an opportunity to buy ITV shares
Wellbeing and volunteering days plus a wide range of opportunities to help you live a balanced and healthy life