Data Engineer Professional

　　Job Req ID: 27111

　　Posting Date: 22 Jan 2024

　　Function: Data & AI

　　Location:

　　Riverside Tower, Belfast (N.I), United Kingdom

　　Salary: Competitive with Great Benefits

　　Why this job matters

　　Data is a vital part of our business and with your help, we can improve the services that we provide to our customers through engineering excellence of our data products. You’ll be working on exciting data products which support TV, Broadband, Digital Voice and market leading technologies like Unbreakable Wifi. We deliver these critical services using the latest cloud technologies on AWS and GCP.

　　When you join us as a DevOps Data Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to be part of our Data Enablement Team where you will help to design, build and support high quality products from our extensive data sources and multi-cloud environment.

　　As a team we believe in the agile principles of openness, transparency and continuous improvement, which underpin strong relationships with our business stakeholders.

　　There will be lots of opportunities to explore new technologies, develop new skills, innovate and grow as an engineer which includes opportunities such as cloud certification.

　　This role can be based in either BT's Belfast or Birmingham site

　　What you’ll be doing

　　Contribute to the support of scalable data products for our business stakeholders.

　　Agile development through story planning, estimation and retrospectives.

　　Aid with the continual improvement of our solutions, i.e. process improvements / operational monitoring / automation opportunities / security.

　　Collaborate with designers, analysts, and other data and software engineers.

　　Continual improvements using DevOps best practices.

　　Provide guidance to offshore DevOps teams.

　　Input into solution design and discovery sessions on product backlog items.

　　Improve automated testing and deployments using CI/CD pipelines.

　　Continual learning through internal and external training.

　　Skills & Knowledge Required

　　Essential Skills & Experience:

　　Hands on DevOps experience in a cloud platform, such as AWS, GCP or Azure.

　　Hands on DevOps experience in an on premise platform, such as Cloudera.

　　Be proactive and lead continuous improvement and innovation activities, in relation to data product support.

　　Experience in Operations within a data and/or software development team, testing, deployment, process automation.

　　Experience in a story driven agile environment.

　　Proactive about continuous improvement and innovation.

　　Knowledge of Software engineering best practices.

　　Input into software and data product designs, assisting other engineers in creating quality solutions.

　　Hands on software development in a story driven agile environment.

　　Desirable Skills & Experience:

　　Support of data/software products from inception through to production.

　　Experience in software development, testing and deployment in a story driven agile environment.

　　SQL, Python, Java, or Scala development experience.

　　Use of Hadoop, GCP or AWS to build Big Data solutions using some of the following technologies: Scala, Java, Spark, Kafka, Kinesis, Kinesis Analytics, BigQuery, Dataflow, BigTable, SQL, Python.

　　Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code Toolsets.

　　Input into data product designs with other engineers to come up with the best solutions.

　　Hands-on experience with Continuous Integration and Deployment Strategies.

　　Prior experience using Confluence, JIRA, or other Atlassian tools.

　　Software version control using Git or SVN.

　　Presentation of technical issues and successes to other members of the team.

　　Have a proven ability to learn new technologies and put these into practice.

　　Benefits

　　At BT, we entertain, educate, and empower millions of people every single day. We’re a brand built on connecting people – whether that’s friends, family, businesses, or communities. Working here, you’ll receive an attractive salary and a range of competitive benefits, but – more than that – you’ll be joining an ambitious organisation with a culture of togetherness, collaboration, and inclusivity, that takes a genuine and proactive interest in your progress and development.

　　Competitive salary

　　10% on target bonus

　　BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%

　　25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service

　　Huge range of flexible benefits including cycle to work, healthcare, season ticket loan

　　World-class training and development opportunities

　　Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes.

　　Discounted broadband, mobile and TV packages

　　Access to 100’s of retail discounts including the BT shop