Data Engineer

All locations: Belfast or Birmingham

Working Style: 3 days a week in office, 2 days anywhere

Why this job matters

Data is at the heart of our business. With your expertise, we can enhance the services we provide to our customers, including TV, Broadband, Digital Voice, and cutting-edge technologies like Unbreakable Wifi. We leverage the latest cloud technologies on AWS, GCP, and Cloudera to deliver these critical services. Join us and be part of a team that's revolutionizing the way the world connects!

As a Lead Data Engineer, you'll be part of our Data & AI Enablement Team, designing, building, and supporting high-quality engineering products from our extensive data sources and multi-cloud environment. We value agile principles of openness, transparency, and continuous improvement, fostering strong relationships with our business stakeholders.

What you’ll be doing

This is a developer first role in which you will design, build, and lead on the development and support of scalable data products for our business stakeholders.

• Agile development through story planning, estimation and retrospectives.
• Contribute the continual improvement of our solutions, i.e. process improvements / operational monitoring / automation opportunities / security.
• Contribute to our Data engineering development and support team, contribute to upkeep of our strategic data platform architecture, the data engineering community and associated standards.
• Collaborate with architects, designers, analysts, product specialists, other software and data engineers – in the support of our data products.
• Continual improvements using engineering excellence best practices.
• Demos and knowledge transfers to stakeholders around product developments.
• Spread your experience and knowledge to junior engineers.
• Improve automated testing and deployments using CI/CD pipelines.
• Expectation to line manage small team of junior data engineers.
• Continual learning through internal and external training.
   

What you'll bring

Mandatory

• Proficient in at least two of the following: Hadoop, GCP or AWS for creating Big Data solutions.
• Skilled in using technologies such as Scala or Java.
• Hands-on experience with Continuous Integration and Deployment strategies.
• Solid understanding of Infrastructure as Code tools.
• Experienced in using Confluence, JIRA, or other Atlassian tools.
• Knowledgeable in software version control with Git or SVN.
• Capable of presenting technical issues and successes to team members and Product Owners.

Nice to Have

• Experience with any of these- Python, Spark, Kafka, Kinesis, Kinesis Analytics, BigQuery, Dataflow, BigTable, and SQL.
• Enthusiastic about learning and applying new technologies (growth mindset).
• Ability to build new solutions and support our data solutions/products.
   

What's in it for you

• 10% on target bonus
• BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
• Life Assurance Cover
• Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages, BT TV with TNT Sports and NOW Entertainment 
• From January 2025, equal family leave:  receive 18 weeks at full pay, 8 weeks at half pay and 26 weeks at the statutory rate. It’s for all parents, no matter how your family is made up.
• Enhanced women’s health support: including help with menopause symptoms, cancer screenings, period care and more.
• 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
• 24/7 private virtual GP appointments for UK colleagues
• 2 weeks carer’s leave
• World-class training and development opportunities
• Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes
   

About us

BT Group was the world’s first telco and our heritage in the sector is unrivalled.  As home to several of the UK’s most recognised and cherished brands – BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet, we have always played a critical role in creating the future, and we have reached an inflection point in the transformation of our business. 
 
Over the next two years, we will complete the UK’s largest and most successful digital infrastructure project – connecting more than 25 million premises to full fibre broadband.  Together with our heavy investment in 5G, we play a central role in revolutionising how people connect with each other. 
 
While we are through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, meaning we can reward our shareholders for their commitment and patience, we are absolutely focused on how we organise ourselves in the best way to serve our customers in the years to come.  This includes radical simplification of systems, structures, and processes on a huge scale. Together with our application of AI and technology, we are on a path to creating the UK’s best telco, reimagining the customer experience and relationship with one of this country’s biggest infrastructure companies.  
 
Change on the scale we will all experience in the coming years is unprecedented.  BT Group is committed to being the driving force behind improving connectivity for millions and there has never been a more exciting time to join a company and leadership team with the skills, experience, creativity, and passion to take this company into a new era.

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.

DON'T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT?

Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.