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Head Of Data Engineering


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  • ITV
  • London
  • 3 weeks ago
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Head of Data Engineering

Commercial Technology & Change

Permanent

White City, London

Hiring range: £130,000

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.

This is a senior role within the Commercial Technology and Change engineering team, responsible for shaping and building our data architecture and data engineering competencies across our delivery teams.

As a Head Of Data Engineering you will be known as a technical authority and champion of data engineering delivery. You will identify, define and nurture the how and the what with regards to our data engineering process. You will be striving to improve our general level of expertise and working culture, and be excited about helping people achieve their full potential. You will be expected to work with a high degree of independence and autonomy.

You are accountable and responsible for building and advancing our data engineering competency and introducing and maintaining an efficient delivery capability over the long term.

This is a leadership, people oriented role and carries reporting line duties for a team of data engineers. In addition, and where required, you will define, own and execute supplier management and cost management processes. This includes introducing and running ITV's centralised finOps model across CT&C's data centric pillars, namely Telligence Insights & AS&I.

A key aspect of this role is to define and communicate a clear CT&C data engineering vision and the ability to articulate this vision to others - set direction and establish goals that align with the CT&C's mission and objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

  1. Capability Development
  • Build a diverse, supportive, excellence-focused data engineering discipline
  • Manage the capacity, recruitment, and development of our data engineering capability
  • Expand our general awareness and understanding of related emerging technologies and best practice
  1. Technical Direction and Delivery
  • Own and deliver our data engineering strategy and vision
  • Oversee the data aspects of feature designs and align those with our data strategy, data architecture and best practices in terms of completion, resilience, flexibility over time and operability
  • Define and own the data related governance processes
  • Establish an overall culture and ways of working

Qualifications and Skills

  • Strong leadership skills, including the ability to create and maintain a positive culture and drive results through others
  • Can demonstrate responsibility for leading a data engineering, or data science, function at a similar scale using agile and hybrid development approaches
  • Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools, for example: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, etc
  • Technical expertise in the areas of distributed computing tools such as Hadoop as well as experience working with big data technologies such as GCP BigQuery, Data Bricks, Kafka, Cassandra, Presto etc
  • Historically strong programming/scripting skills in languages such as Python and SQL. In addition, deep understanding of relational and non-relational databases systems such as SQL, Redshift, PostgreSQL or Cassandra

Other things we're looking for (key criteria)

  • Knowledge of the UK broadcast industry & broadcast/OTT advertising market
  • Knowledge of digital marketing and advertising industry
  • Familiar with data design techniques for classification and regression as well as knowledge of A/B testing, experimental design, and general statistical modelling
  • Familiarity with architecture disciplines such as Data Mesh Architecture, Data Architecture, BI Architecture and Enterprise Architecture
  • Good understanding of data governance, data privacy, and security principles.
  • Knowledge of tools across other data management capabilities - data engineering, data governance, data quality, metadata management and master data management
  • Knowledge of designing and building out data visualisation solutions based on technology such as: Tableau, AWS QuickSight, Looker, ThoughtSpot

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.

Closing date: Wednesday 5th February 2025

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