Data Analytics Professional

About the role

We are seeking a highly skilled Data Analytics Professional to develop and support modern data platforms that enable business intelligence, advanced analytics and operational insights. The successful candidate will have strong expertise in building scalable data pipelines, managing streaming and batch workloads and ensuring data quality across complex enterprise ecosystems. This role requires hands-on experience with cloud-native data technologies across both Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and AWS, with a specific focus on Kafka-based ingestion, analytics engineering and data platform reliability.

What you’ll be doing

• Design, build, and maintain scalable batch and real-time data pipelines using Apache Kafka and cloud-native data services.
• Develop robust ETL/ELT solutions using Python and SQL to ingest, transform, validate, and curate large-scale datasets.
• Implement and manage orchestration workflows using Apache Airflow and GCP Composer.
• Develop serverless data processing capabilities using GCP Cloud Functions, AWS Lambda, and AWS Glue.
• Design and implement data quality frameworks, including validation rules, monitoring, reconciliation processes, and automated remediation workflows.
• Build and optimise analytical data models and datasets within GCP Big Query and AWS analytics platforms.
• Manage data storage and querying solutions using Amazon S3 and Amazon Athena.
• Monitor pipeline performance, troubleshoot production issues, and implement improvements to ensure reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Collaborate with data engineers, analysts, architects, and business stakeholders to deliver trusted and actionable data products.
• Ensure security, governance, metadata management, and compliance standards are embedded throughout the data lifecycle.
• Contribute to CI/CD, automation, documentation, and best practices within the data engineering function.

Essential Skills / Experience

• Strong experience in data analytics and data product lifecycle management.
• Hands-on expertise with Apache Kafka and event-driven data architectures.
• Advanced programming skills in Python and strong SQL development experience.
• Proven experience implementing data quality controls, data validation frameworks, and data governance practices.
• Experience working with: GCP Big Query, Apache Airflow / GCP Composer, GCP Cloud Functions, AWS Lambda, AWS Glue, Amazon S3, Amazon Athena
• Knowledge of data modelling, schema management, partitioning, and query optimisation techniques.
• Experience with source control, CI/CD pipelines, testing, and deployment automation.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Results-oriented with a strong focus on quality and operational excellence.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Able to work independently while collaborating effectively within cross-functional teams.
• Passionate about continuous improvement, automation, and innovation in data platforms.

BT Group is the UK’s leading communications group and the holding company behind some of the country’s most recognised brands – including BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet. Our purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: we connect for good. Our customers include consumers, small, medium and large businesses, public sector organisations and other communications providers.

BT Group’s role is about setting direction, unlocking value and creating the conditions for our brands and businesses to thrive.

Having come through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, our focus now is on what comes next – simplifying how we operate, using technology and AI to work smarter, and organising ourselves to serve customers better and grow sustainably. Group teams shape strategy, policy, brand, capital allocation and transformation, helping the whole organisation perform at its best.

We have a singular culture that unites all our people: we are customer-first challengers, who are committed, clear and connected. These behaviours unite us as one team to deliver for our colleagues, our customers, our stakeholders and the country. Joining BT Group means working at the heart of a business that matters to the UK, with the opportunity to shape decisions, influence outcomes and help set the future course of one of the country’s most important companies.