Job Reference:24211
Band: E
Salary: £95,000-£110,000k depending on relevant skills, knowledge, and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Permanent role
Location: Office Base is Newcastle, Salford or London.
We want the BBC to be as renowned for the quality of its engineering as it is for the quality of its content. We aspire to be the best so that we can engineer outstanding digital products, at scale. Working here in an engineering role means being part of a world-class team and a chance to do the most meaningful work of your career
The BBC’s digital products play a key role in our mission to inform, educate and entertain the audience. We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join the Data Engineering team.
The BBC offers an inclusive workplace where the principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity, and autonomy are promoted and are part of our everyday goals and behaviour. We select candidates for our positions based on merit and as an equal opportunity employer we value diversity and all the benefits it brings
Interview process
Two stage interview process
Job Description
As the Engineering Manager for the Insights Tooling team within BBC’s Data Platform, you will lead up to 50 engineers, including Software Engineering Team Leads and Principal Engineers, to transform siloed analytics solutions into a unified, API-driven platform on AWS. Your work will empower teams across the
BBC—from journalists to executives—to make data-informed decisions by delivering scalable, user-friendly data products.
You will collaborate with Engineering, Architecture, Product, and UX leaders to drive technical excellence while fostering a culture of innovation, inclusivity, and best practices in data engineering.
Platform Leadership: Architect and deliver scalable, API-first analytics solutions, enabling seamless data access across the BBC.
o Frontend applications (React, TypeScript, Node.js) for intuitive data visualization.
o Backend systems for large-scale data ingestion, processing (AWS), storage, and management (e.g., NoSQL like MongoDB).
You are a data-savvy engineering leader with a proven record of building high-impact platforms and teams. You bring:
Technical Expertise
Leadership & Collaboration
Stakeholder Impact
Why Join 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.
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