Data Engineering Lead

Is this role for you?

You’ll build and lead the data engineering capability for 5 Streaming in-house. You’ll own the pipelines, data models and quality controls that join streaming, advertising, marketing and registration data into a single trusted view of content and audience performance.

What you will be doing?

• Own the design, build and operation of the data pipelines and data models that power all streaming reporting, dashboards and analysis.
• Establish a single joined view of content and audience performance, by creating a common identity and content spine across behavioural, advertising, marketing and registration data.
• Own the definition and reconciliation of core streaming metrics and codify the business logic across business systems.
• Own analytics implementation and tagging governance across all streaming platforms. You’ll cover technical specification creation, naming standards and defect prioritisation, working closely with product, technology and QA teams.
• Establish data quality monitoring, alerting and scorecards across all streaming data sources, with defined thresholds, clear ownership and escalation routes.
• Establish an experimentation capability, providing templated test setup, instrumentation standards and analysis patterns so that product and marketing teams can run and interpret tests autonomously.
• Build in-house data modelling capacity for churn prediction, reactivation, ad targeting, segmentation and personalisation.
• Own the technical data roadmap, identifying AI and automation opportunities to improve the accuracy, timeliness and cost of the data stack.
• Work alongside Skydance data teams as their technical data counterpart, and provide technical direction to the analytics team.
• Own data governance for streaming datasets, working closely with the privacy and information security teams so that compliance is built into every data workflow.

What are we looking for?

Essential

• Senior level experience in data engineering, including time as the sole or lead technical owner of a data platform, with hands-on delivery alongside roadmap ownership, vendor management and the ability to translate technical constraints for commercial, marketing and editorial stakeholders.
• Expert SQL and Python, with production experience designing, building and operating ETL/ELT pipelines at scale.
• Deep hands-on experience of a modern cloud data warehouse and its associated transformation and orchestration tooling.
• Strong working knowledge of digital and product analytics platforms, including event tracking implementation across web, mobile and connected TV.
• Demonstrable experience joining behavioural, advertising and CRM datasets, and resolving identity and metric definitions across sources that count users differently.
• Track record of establishing data quality monitoring, governance and trusted metric definitions in an environment where none previously existed.
• Practical knowledge of A/B testing methodology and statistical analysis, with experience building experimentation capability for non-technical teams.

Nice to have

• Background in streaming, broadcast or media, with a working understanding of streaming and commercial performance metrics.
• Experience of advertising, attribution and quality-of-experience platforms.
• Experience applying machine learning to churn, propensity, segmentation or recommendation problems.
• Experience applying AI tooling to data engineering, reporting or forecasting workflows.
• Experience of in-housing previously outsourced capability, and of working alongside central data functions within a large group organisation.

Channel 5 is an award-winning public service broadcaster and the UK's third latest commercial TV station, reaching 3 in 4 of the UK viewing public each month. The channel has a diverse schedule of original programmes across genres including issue-led documentaries, popular factual, accessible history, stunning natural history, inclusive entertainment and reality, top level sport, high quality scripted programming, headline-grabbing current affairs and critically acclaimed children's and news programming. Channel 5 is a unit of Paramount Global.

Skydance is an equal opportunity employer (EOE)

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