Senior Software Engineer
Software Engineering
London, UK
GBP 60,200-73,365 / year
| London, GBR, W1A 1AA
JOB DETAILS
JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent - Full Time
DEPARTMENT: Core Data Platform
LOCATION: London
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £60,200 - £73,365 plus London Weighting depending on relevant skills, knowledge, and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
Step into the world of the BBC, one of the UK's most iconic and trusted brands, where technology plays a critical role in delivering content to millions of people every day. Our Software Engineering teams build and operate innovative products and platforms that help keep the BBC at the forefront of the industry.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
Core Data Platform is part of Data Platform, providing trusted, fast, and reliable access to audience and business data that enables a more data-informed and personalised BBC.
We support personalised experiences across BBC products, including iPlayer and Sounds, while providing a platform used by a multitude of active users across our data community, including analysts, scientists, and engineers. This role offers the opportunity to work with data at scale and build highly scalable data platforms and ingestion pipelines.
YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT
• Help architect and lead the development of scalable, high-performance software, data lake, and data warehouse platforms, driving technical decisions that align with long-term product and business goals.
• Drive and evolve audience personalisation platforms and data access services, ensuring reliability, performance, and operational excellence for business-critical systems across the organisation.
• Partner with architects and product leaders to define and deliver the long-term technical vision, setting standards for cloud infrastructure using AWS CDK/CloudFormation and CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions and Code Pipeline.
• Drive engineering excellence through test-driven development, test automation, and observability best practices, leveraging CloudWatch and Grafana to maintain platform health at scale.
• Lead and inspire a high-performing engineering culture through mentorship, thought leadership, and cross-team collaboration, championing DevSecOps principles and security best practices across the full software development lifecycle.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE – KEY CRITERIA
Essential Criteria
• Extensive experience building scalable, resilient, and high-performance systems and pipelines. Experience handling sensitive data and implementing robust security practices. Hands-on experience with large-scale data warehouses (e.g. Redshift) in cloud-native environments.
• Expertise with databases such as DynamoDB, Redis, Aurora, Athena, and Redshift, plus strong experience with AWS services (S3, EC2, SQS, Lambda, IAM, Managed Airflow), cloud networking, and cloud solution architecture.
• Advanced proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code using AWS CDK and CloudFormation, combined with strong CI/CD practices — including GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and GitOps workflows.
• Deep understanding of cloud security, governance, and compliance, with a proven ability to define and implement scalable security frameworks.
• Proficiency in Python and/or Java, with the ability to apply them effectively across API development, data engineering, automation, and infrastructure tooling contexts.
If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d encourage you to apply.
Disclaimer
This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.
Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.
Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Recruitment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.
For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk
We are unable to accept applications via CV and only applications made online will be considered. Please click on the APPLY NOW button to proceed with your application.
Redeployment
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC 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.
This is your BBC
At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world’s best loved content, and the BBC’s mission to inform, educate and entertain.
Life at BBC
Here you will benefit from:
• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.
Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis or on an orchestra conditions contract.
Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.
You belong
We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.
Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.
Disability confident
We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we’d be happy to discuss: reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk
