Data Engineering Specialist

Job Description

Why BT
We’ve always been an organisation with a purpose; to use the power of communication to make a better world. You can trace this back to our beginning as pioneers of the world’s firs telecommunications company. At our heart we’re a technology company with research and innovation in our bones and a desire to be personal, simple, and brilliant for our customers - those are the values we live by whilst also creating an inclusive working environment where people from all backgrounds can succeed.Our pursuit of progress over the past 180 years has established BT as a strong, successful brand, with huge scale capable of achieving great things. From supporting emergency services, hospitals, banks and keeping economies around the world online, safe and secure, to delivering large scale technology infrastructure like the creation of BT Sport.
Today in this fast-changing, always on, digital world our purpose remains true. Yet the market conditions, regulations and competition we face are tougher than ever before. So, if you have the drive, optimism and resilience to help propel us forward we’ll offer unrivalled personal development, a wealth of opportunities to learn, experience new things and pursue new careers. If that’s you and what you’re looking for, we’d love you to be part of our future.

About this role

The Data and AI team in NAS helps BT make better decisions.

At BT, we know there is huge potential in the vast amount of data available to us and we are looking for talented, innovative and collaborative people to realise that potential safely and radically. The data products we deliver are used across all our Customer Facing Units. They are central to the live monitoring of our networks, guide the development of the services and products we provide, and improve the day to day experience our customers, specialising in improving their service.

This role is pivotal in shaping our data landscape for the future. You’ll be hands on: managing building, developing and maintaining our data platforms, ensuring they are optimised for efficiency, scalability & reliability and turning the most complex business needs into the data and AI solutions that assist Networks data strategy.

What You’ll Be Doing

The Data and AI team in NAS helps BT make better decisions.

At BT, we know there is huge potential in the vast amount of data available to us and we are looking for talented, innovative and collaborative people to realise that potential safely and radically. The data products we deliver are used across all our Customer Facing Units. They are central to the live monitoring of our networks, guide the development of the services and products we provide, and improve the day to day experience our customers, specialising in improving their service.

This role is pivotal in shaping our data landscape for the future. You’ll be hands on: managing building, developing and maintaining our data platforms, ensuring they are optimised for efficiency, scalability & reliability and turning the most complex business needs into the data and AI solutions that assist Networks data strategy.

Skills and Experience

• Data Engineering: Strong proficiency in data engineering concepts, tools and technologies. Tech stack: AWS, GCP & Hadoop, Spark, Scala, Python, SQL, Kafka, cloud native services). Ability to work with very large streaming data sets and perform complex data transformations.

• Data Management: Knowledge of data governance, data quality, and data privacy standards. Familiarity with data warehousing, data lakes, and cloud-based data storage solutions.

• Data Modelling: Ability to design and implement effective data models to assist business processes.

• Observability & DevOps: experience in developing and integrating observability tooling

• AI and ML: experience building pipelines assist ML models and integrating AI solutions.

• Domain expertise: relating to BT Networks products, not limited to Wi-Fi standards, device management, industry measures & regulatory obligations

Inclusive leadership: Leverages diverse and inclusive thinking to maximise the effectiveness and success of teams, policies, practices, and products.

Experience You’ll Bring

• Proven ability and experience to develop and assist data solutions at scale [MANDATORY]

• Drive to push forward engineering standards and want to be hands on. [MANDATORY]

• Proven experience of DevOps practices and tools [MANDATORY]

• Understanding of observability tools and concepts [MANDATORY

• Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS or GCP) [MANDATORY]

• Knowledge of data governance and best practices for data security and privacy [MANDATORY]

• Stakeholder management [MANDATORY]

• Experience bringing ML solutions to production & in life assist and maintenance including model drift [PREFERRED]
  

About us

BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.

Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.

We value diversity and celebrate difference. ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’

We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.

This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.

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.