I am writing as the hiring manager to inform you of an employment opportunity at Sky within its Network Engineering division, which might possibly be suitable for you or for a contact you may know. Details are provided below:
Data Engineer
We have an opportunity for a Data Engineer within the Network Data Science & Software department, part of Sky’s Engineering division, which takes a data-driven approach towards meeting network planning and quality goals. Our networks are at the heart of delivering our entertainment services and as such using a data driven approach to ensure that all of our networks are always up and highly performant is our raison d’être.
What you’ll do
– Create and maintain an optimal data pipeline architecture focussed upon network data, including real-time and batch data sources.
– Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional and non-functional business requirements.
– Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimising data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
– Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL and Cloud ‘big data’ technologies.
– Keep our data separated and secure through multiple data centres and regions.
– Create data tools for data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimizing into an innovative industry leader.
What you’ll bring
– Graduate degree BSc in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or similar. Strong communications skills.
– SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases. Strong analytic skills related to working with structured and unstructured datasets.
– Proficient Python programmer.
– Ideally an awareness of network technologies and concepts or an insatiable desire to learn.
– Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management. A successful history of manipulating, processing and extracting value from large disconnected datasets.
– Experience with big data tools (e.g. Spark, Kafka), data pipeline and workflow management tools (e.g. Airflow) and GCP cloud services (e.g. Pub/Sub, Dataflow).
To apply, go here:
https://bskyb.taleo.net/careersection/bskyb_external/jobapply.ftl?job=54705
Kind Regards,
Ibrahim Rashid
Head of Network Data Science & Software
Engineering | Sky
