Data Engineering Lead

Paramount Pictures; Camden Town; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Channel 5, a unit of Paramount Global, seeks a Senior Data Engineer to own the design, build and operation of data pipelines powering streaming reporting and analysis. You will establish a unified view across behavioural, advertising and CRM data with a single identity spine.

You will define core metrics, govern tagging, monitor data quality, and enable autonomous experimentation for product and marketing teams while collaborating with Skydance data teams and Paramount’s data function.

Qualifications

• Senior level experience in data engineering with hands-on delivery.
• Expert SQL and Python for building data pipelines.
• Experience designing, building and operating ETL/ELT pipelines at scale.
• Deep hands-on experience with a modern cloud data warehouse and orchestration tooling.
• Strong knowledge of digital and product analytics platforms and event tracking.
• Experience joining behavioural, advertising and CRM datasets and resolving identity definitions.
• Track record of data quality monitoring, governance and trusted metrics.
• Practical knowledge of A/B testing methodology and statistical analysis.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, build and operation of data pipelines powering streaming reporting, dashboards and analysis.
• Establish a single joined view of content and audience performance across behavioural, advertising, marketing and registration data.
• Define core streaming metrics and codify business logic across systems to reconcile data.
• Own analytics tagging governance, including technical specs, naming standards and defect prioritisation.
• Establish data quality monitoring, alerting and scorecards with clear ownership and escalation routes.
• Build experimentation capability with templates, instrumentation standards and analysis patterns for autonomous testing.
• Develop in-house data modelling for churn, reactivation, targeting, segmentation and personalization.
• Own the data roadmap, identifying AI/automation opportunities to improve accuracy and cost.
• Collaborate with Skydance data teams as the technical data counterpart and provide direction to analytics.
• Lead data governance for streaming datasets with privacy and security teams to ensure compliance.
• Senior leadership exposure and ability to translate constraints for commercial stakeholders.

Skills

SQL

Python

ETL/ELT pipelines

Data modeling

Data governance

A/B testing

Cloud data warehouse

Event tracking

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

• Own the design, build and operation of the data pipelines and data models that power all streaming reporting, dashboards and analysis.
• Establish a single joined view of content and audience performance, by creating a common identity and content spine across behavioural, advertising, marketing and registration data.
• Own the definition and reconciliation of core streaming metrics and codify the business logic across business systems.
• Own analytics implementation and tagging governance across all streaming platforms. You'll cover technical specification creation, naming standards and defect prioritisation, working closely with product, technology and QA teams.
• Establish data quality monitoring, alerting and scorecards across all streaming data sources, with defined thresholds, clear ownership and escalation routes.
• Establish an experimentation capability, providing templated test setup, instrumentation standards and analysis patterns so that product and marketing teams can run and interpret tests autonomously.
• Build in-house data modelling capacity for churn prediction, reactivation, ad targeting, segmentation and personalisation.
• Own the technical data roadmap, identifying AI and automation opportunities to improve the accuracy, timeliness and cost of the data stack.
• Work alongside Skydance data teams as their technical data counterpart, and provide technical direction to the analytics team.
• Own data governance for streaming datasets, working closely with the privacy and information security teams so that compliance is built into every data workflow.
  Senior level experience in data engineering, including time as the sole or lead technical owner of a data platform, with hands-on delivery alongside roadmap ownership, vendor management and the ability to translate technical constraints for commercial, marketing and editorial stakeholders.
• Expert SQL and Python, with production experience designing, building and operating ETL/ELT pipelines at scale.
• Deep hands-on experience of a modern cloud data warehouse and its associated transformation and orchestration tooling.
• Strong working knowledge of digital and product analytics platforms, including event tracking implementation across web, mobile and connected TV.
• Demonstrable experience joining behavioural, advertising and CRM datasets, and resolving identity and metric definitions across sources that count users differently.
• Track record of establishing data quality monitoring, governance and trusted metric definitions in an environment where none previously existed.
• Practical knowledge of A/B testing methodology and statistical analysis, with experience building experimentation capability for non-technical teams.

Nice to have

• Background in streaming, broadcast or media, with a working understanding of streaming and commercial performance metrics.
• Experience of advertising, attribution and quality-of-experience platforms.
• Experience applying machine learning to churn, propensity, segmentation or recommendation problems.
• Experience applying AI tooling to data engineering, reporting or forecasting workflows.
• Experience of in-housing previously outsourced capability, and of working alongside central data functions within a large group organisation.

Channel 5 is an award-winning public service broadcaster and the UK's third latest commercial TV station, reaching 3 in 4 of the UK viewing public each month. The channel has a diverse schedule of original programmes across genres including issue-led documentaries, popular factual, accessible history, stunning natural history, inclusive entertainment and reality, top level sport, high quality scripted programming, headline-grabbing current affairs and critically acclaimed children's and news programming. Channel 5 is a unit of Paramount Global.