Data Engineering Professional

Job Description

Recruiter: Sowmya Reddy

Hiring Manager: Ghanshyam Burnwal

Career Grade: E

Internal Closing Date: 22nd February, 2026

Why this job matters

This role is central to enabling BT Group’s data driven decision making by shaping how structured and unstructured data is captured, managed, stored, and utilised across the organisation. The Data Engineering Professional translates business requirements into reliable, scalable data solutions that strengthen our overall data strategy. In addition to creating robust data processes and contributing to reusable engineering patterns, this role plays a hands-on part in the full delivery lifecycle - driving development, conducting thorough testing, and ensuring smooth deployment of high quality data pipelines and products. Through this, the role directly enhances the organisation’s ability to produce accurate, trustworthy, and impactful insights driven decision making by shaping how structured and unstructured data is captured, managed, stored, and utilised across the organisation.

What you’ll be doing

• Deliver the development, testing, and deployment of ETL/ELT data pipelines for ingesting, transforming, and curating data, ensuring adherence to data security and privacy standards.
• Contribute to designing and enhancing data warehouse architecture and reusable engineering patterns for processing and storing large scale structured and unstructured datasets.
• Support major engineering initiatives by shaping technical approaches and contributing innovative solutions to complex or ambiguous problems.
• Produce business relevant, high quality data outputs that strengthen the organisation’s data assets and overall data engineering capability. relevant, high quality data outputs that strengthen the organisation’s data assets and overall data engineering capability.
• Apply engineering best practices and Agile delivery methodologies to ensure consistent, high quality, and iterative delivery of data engineering solutions, quality, and iterative delivery of data engineering solutions.
• Execute initiatives to build and improve data and analytics infrastructure, enabling scalable and reusable data engineering capabilities.
• Identify and implement improvements to data engineering processes by analysing data, optimising workflows, and driving efficiency gains.
• Conduct thorough quality assurance and testing of data pipelines, models, and engineering frameworks to ensure accuracy, reliability, and fitness for business use.

The skills and experience you’ll have under your belt

Must have

• Cloud (GCP): Handson experience with key Google Cloud Platform services such as BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Cloud Composer, Dataflow, and Pub/Sub, with the ability to design, develop, optimize, and manage data pipelines and cloud native architectures. on experience with key Google Cloud Platform services such as native architectures.
• SQL: Proficiency in SQL, including writing complex queries, optimizing performance, handling large datasets, and implementing data validation and quality checks across analytical platforms.
• Data Warehousing: Experience in designing and implementing Data Warehouse solutions across different platforms, including schema design, ETL/ELT patterns and performance tuning.
• Programming (Python): Experience in Python for building data pipelines and automation using cloud services, APIs, and SDKs, with an understanding of modular coding, error handling, and reusable components.
• Terraform: Experience with Terraform for infrastructure as code; willingness and ability to learn quickly is essential. as code; willingness and ability to learn quickly is essential.
• DevOps & Automation: Understanding of DevOps principles with hands-on experience in version control, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and defect management. Mandatory experience with GitLab for code management and deployments. on experience in version control, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and defect management

Would be good to have

• Agile Methodology: Working knowledge of Agile delivery practices and tools such as Jira and Confluence, with the ability to collaborate in fast paced, iterative development cycles. paced, iterative development cycles.
• Strong analytical and communication skills, with the ability to interpret complex data and present insights in clear, user friendly formats for technical and nontechnical stakeholders. friendly formats for technical and non technical stakeholders.
• Experience managing deadlines and delivering high quality work under pressure in dynamic and fastmoving environments. quality work under pressure in dynamic and fast moving environments.
• Experience creating processes and documentation, including developing standard operating procedures, architectural diagrams, and technical documentation.
• Ability to work effectively with multiple stakeholders, collaborating across engineering, product, business, and operations teams to drive aligned outcomes.
• Experience in data quality frameworks, including implementing data validation, monitoring, and continuous improvement techniques.
• Familiarity with incident and service management tools such as ServiceNow for handling production issues, change management, and operational workflows.

Our leadership standards

Looking in:
Leading inclusively and Safely
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.

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.