Data Visualisation Specialist

Job Band

Job Reference 15307

Band: C

Salary Range: £44,000-£58,000 dependent on skills, knowledge and experience

Contract type: Permanent

Location: Newcastle, Salford, Birmingham, Glasgow

Our comprehensive benefits package includes:

•    An employer pension contribution of up to 10%

•    26 days’ annual leave (based on full time hours) + bank holidays and the option to buy/sell additional days

•    Contributory lifestyle benefit options including discounts at hundreds of retailers, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym memberships and healthcare schemes

•    Employee assistance and well-being programmes

•    Learning and development tailored to your role – this could include industry recognised qualifications, coaching and mentoring

•    An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join staff networks including: Women’s Network, National Disability Networks and many more.

Family friendly flexible working arrangements, such as hybrid working, job sharing, flexi-time and compressed hours can be requested.

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and especially welcome individuals from underrepresented groups.

If you require any reasonable adjustments at any time, please let us know by contacting us on [email protected] with the job reference in the subject.

Introduction

Product Group is responsible for the design, development, and delivery of the BBC’s portfolio of digital products.

Encompassing iPlayer, Sounds, Bitesize, and the BBC News and BBC Sport apps and website, our portfolio is diverse and contains some of the largest and highest-profile properties on the UK internet. We’re a huge streaming media destination, a news source trusted across the world, a provider of educational and entertaining content to children of all ages, and a sports results, analysis, and commentary service, and much more besides. It's an unparalleled portfolio of products, and our strength is our range and breadth. Working with the BBC’s content divisions, our focus now is on driving engagement across our portfolio so that the BBC online becomes a valued daily habit for all audiences just as television and radio have been over the last century.

Data is fundamental to our future: both in helping us prioritise and shape our work and in creating richer, more personalised experiences for our audiences. And our portfolio means that we’ve got one of the widest, most diverse, and most exciting datasets to work within the UK.

We are Product Data Domains

The Product Data Domains teams is a newly formed set of teams creating and maintaining trusted datasets and data products within Product Group. We have multiple teams within the function, responsible for expertise and knowledge of different sub-domains. We work in multi-skilled teams – from Product Data managers, analytics developers, data engineers and tracking implementation specialists. We work closely with our colleagues from across the organisation.

The Senior Data Visualisation Specialist is a new role that sits in the Product Data Domain teams. You will use the highly governed data sets produced by the Product Data Domains team to design, produce and maintain critical automated reporting and dashboards for use within the BBC’s digital estate. You will work alongside our Product Data Managers to gather requirements from a variety of stakeholders across all product teams and senior management, and translate them into easy-to-use, accessible, well-maintained, performant data visualisation suite which could include automated reporting.

You will also be working with our Data Governance colleagues to ensure that our dashboards conform to data quality and our dashboard kitemarking processes.

Finally, you will support other teams insider the wider Product Data function with data visualisation best practice. You will contribute to our communities of practice including Tableau, and be responsible for driving innovation within the data visualisation space.

Responsibilities

Role and responsibilities will comprise of:

•    Creating, maintaining and iterating on dashboards and data visualisations that will support automated reporting

•    Establishing and communicating best practices in data visualisation in Product Group, including considerations around user experience, data interpretation, and accessibility

•    Bring in best practice and innovation on new visualisation libraries, keeping the wider org informed of the latest development in visualisation

•    Working in cross-disciplinary teams to understand stakeholder goals, objectives and requirements

•    Establishing best practice on data storage, preparation and cleansing specifically for visualisation use

•    Developing a framework for tracking delivery of dashboards across stakeholders, ensuring they are in use, secure and up to date

Are you the right candidate

When it comes to data visualisation specialists at the BBC we look for these skills:

Technical Skills

•    At least 5 years’ experience in a Data Analyst, Analytics Engineering or Front end developer role with a focus on data visualisation

•    Extensive experience using an enterprise data visualisation tool e.g. Tableau, Looker

•    Experience coding in SQL, Python or R

•    Experience of implementing best practices and guidelines in data visualisation

•    Experience of working with visualisation libraries such as D3 or data heavy applications such as Streamlit

•    Good working knowledge of git and software development processes

•    Good working knowledge of Data Warehouse technologies (Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery)

•    Comfortable working alongside cross-functional teams interacting with Product Managers, Engineers, Data Scientists, and Analysts

Teamwork and stakeholder management

•    Ability to listen to others’ ideas and build on them

•    Ability to clearly communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences.

•    Ability to collaborate effectively, working alongside other team members towards the team’s goals, and enabling others to succeed, where possible.

•    Ability to prioritise. A structured approach and ability to bring other on the journey.

•    Strong attention to detail

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.

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.