Senior Data Engineer - Anti-Piracy

Sky; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media and entertainment brand in Greater London is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join their Anti-Piracy team. In this role, you will design and maintain scalable data pipelines, build data infrastructure, and ensure data accuracy and reliability. Strong experience with SQL, Python, and cloud environments (GCP/AWS) is necessary. This position offers a hybrid working approach, competitive salary, and great perks including private healthcare and a generous pension package.

Benefits

Private healthcare

Generous pension package

Discounted mobile and broadband

Subsidised gym

Sky Q at an exclusive rate

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and scaling data pipelines and architectures in cloud environments.
• Deep experience with data modelling, schema design, ETL/ELT.
• Hands-on experience working with large, complex datasets.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines.
• Build and optimise data infrastructure and ETL workflows.
• Monitor and troubleshoot data systems for accuracy and performance.

Skills

Data pipeline design

SQL

Python

Data modeling

ETL/ELT

Communication skills

Tools

GCP

AWS

Airflow

BigQuery

Spark

Job description

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Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 6 countries, make your mark at Europe's leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work.

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our Anti-Piracy team who will be responsible for expanding and optimizing our data pipeline as well as optimizing data flow and collection within the Anti-Piracy Team.

The Senior Data Engineer will be responsible for designing, building, and scaling the data infrastructure that powers our anti-piracy operations and intelligence capabilities. You'll develop and maintain data pipelines, architect data storage solutions, and help shape data standards and governance across the org. You'll partner closely with data scientists, analysts, and engineering teams to ensure our data is accurate, reliable, secure, and available when needed.
The successful candidate must have strong technical skills as well as excellent communication skills.

What you'll do

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, storage, processing, analysis, and visualisation across multiple sources
• Build and optimise data infrastructure and ETL workflows to support reliable extraction, transformation, and loading of large, complex datasets
• Create and refine SQL queries, data models, and data structures to support reporting, analytics, and business-critical workloads
• Monitor, validate, and troubleshoot data systems to ensure accuracy, performance, security, and scalability, resolving issues proactively
• Automate manual workflows and implement internal process improvements to enhance data delivery efficiency and system reliability
• Contribute to data governance standards, metadata management, and versioning processes while collaborating with data science and cross-functional teams
• Maintain thorough documentation for data pipelines, systems, and processes, and stay current on modern data engineering tools, architecture patterns, and best practices

What you'll bring

• Proven experience designing and scaling data pipelines and architectures in cloud environments (GCP and AWS desirable)
• Deep experience with data modelling, schema design, ETL/ELT, warehousing concepts, and distributed data systems
• Hands‑on experience working with large, complex, or messy datasets and making them usable
• Strong SQL and scripting/programming skills (Python required; Java/Scala/C++ a plus)
• Experience with orchestration and workflow tools (Airflow, Cloud Composer, Dagster, etc.)
• Familiarity with modern data stack components (BigQuery, dbt, Kafka/PubSub, Spark, etc.)
• Knowledge of data security, access control, and best practices for handling sensitive data
• Experience collaborating across engineering, analytics, and product teams
• Strong communication skills, especially explaining data concepts to non-technical stakeholders

Team overview

Sky's Group Anti-Piracy team's purpose is to make our great content unavailable to pirates, and to make pirated content unattractive to consumers. We prevent the theft of Sky's content by ensuring our platforms, like Sky Q, are secure and we deploy cutting‑edge technology, intelligence and investigations to stay one step ahead. We enforce the law and we work with our partners, like the big tech and social media platforms, to make sure that they understand the threat, and take action.

The Rewards

There's one thing people can't stop talking about when it comes to #LifeAtSky: the perks. Here's a taster:

• Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
• The magic of Sky Glass at an exclusive rate
• A generous pension package
• Private healthcare
• Discounted mobile and broadband
• A wide range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences

How you'll work

We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our unique office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home.

We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You'll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process.

Your office base

Osterley

Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There's also plenty of bike shelters and showers.

On campus, you'll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon.

Inclusion

At Sky we don't just look at your CV. We're more focused on who you are and your potential. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, so we're happy to discuss flexible working.

We are a Disability Confident Accredited Employer, and welcome and encourage applications from all candidates. We will look to ensure a fair and consistent experience for all and will make reasonable adjustments to support you where appropriate. Please flag any adjustments you need to your recruiter as early as you can.

Why wait?

Apply now to build an amazing career and be part of a brilliant team. We can't wait to hear from you.

To find out more about working with us, search #LifeAtSky on social media. A job you love to talk about.

Just so you know: if your application is successful, we'll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.