Data Manager

Job Package

Job reference 18599

Band: D

Contract type: 12 months FTC / Attachment

Location: Glasgow or London, hybrid

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

Closing date for applications:  Tuesday 13th May 2025 at 23:59

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.

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Job Introduction

We are currently building out a next generation data platform to provide seamless access to the BBC’s large archive of programme information, metadata, subtitles, transcripts, production data and restrictions. Up until now, this metadata has been stored in a large number of separate, siloed systems, tightly coupled to their respective business use cases.

This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of one of the world great media archives at a time when we are aiming to transform our platform and operations.

Main Responsibilities

Together with Lead Data Manager, you will:

•    Design Archives core data model to support search and discovery, metadata management and data driven decision making

•    Design efficient data processes and work with architects, engineers and analysts to implement them

•    Implement best practices in data governance and management across the Archives

•    Set the foundations for further development of Archive data ecosystem and implementation of new data technologies such as machine learning and artificial intelligence.

•    Define strategy for monitoring and improving data quality

Are you the right candidate

The right candidate will have skills in data modelling, data process design, and analytics. The role will help shape key elements of our data platform and the transformation in how we collect, manage and use our data. You’ll be working with the Lead Data Manager, as well as analysts, architects, engineers and product managers as part of a varied team.

Essential

• Good understanding and practical experience of core data management principles
• Entity-Relationship data modelling experience
• SQL, including regular expressions
• Experience with working on wide range of complex data sets and formats.
• Experience with cloud hosted environments (AWS)
• Self starter, interest in learning new technologies
• Passion for data.

Desirable

• Data governance experience.
• Data modelling for other db types.
• Ability to present data design (model and processes) solutions to non-technical audiences.
• Experience with media metadata.
• Experience of working with a multidiscipline team of analysts, engineers, and product leads. Experience of Agile working.

About the BBC

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.

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