DATA ENGINEER AT BBC MEDIA ACTION

About Company:

The BBC is an international multimedia broadcaster on radio, TV, online and social networks with a weekly global audience of 320 million. As part of an historic multi-million pound expansion of BBC Africa, the BBC World Service is introducing a wide range of new and exciting language and regional content to serve African and global audiences.

Job Description:

• Design, build, and maintain central databases/data warehouses using PostgreSQL or Azure SQL, optimised for indexing, querying, and scalability.
• Develop and manage ETL pipelines using Python to ingest, clean, transform, and harmonise data from surveys, outreach, digital analytics, social listening, and partner submissions.
• Process near real-time and large-scale datasets efficiently, ensuring data integrity and performance.
• Build and maintain well-labelled and standardised schemas with clear metadata to support reporting, analytics, and downstream dashboards.
• Handle text-heavy social listening data, including cleaning, deduplication, sentiment scoring, and calculation of social media metrics.
• Prepare datasets for Power BI with star-schema models, transformations, and
• calculated measures, supporting dashboards while maintaining a primary focus on database architecture.
• Ensure data quality, governance, and security, including role-based access, logging,
• GDPR compliance, and documentation.
• Collaborate with London teams, and partner organisations to standardise data submission and ensure usability.

Requirements:

• Strong experience designing relational databases or data warehouses, specifically PostgreSQL or Azure SQL.
• Expertise in building and optimising ETL pipelines using Python.
• Advanced SQL skills, including indexing, performance tuning, and working with large-scale data.
• Experience importing, cleaning, and automating integration of SPSS survey datasets.
• Experience handling social listening data: text-heavy data processing, deduplication,sentiment analysis, and calculation of social media metrics.
• Familiarity with Power BI for dataset preparation, data modelling, and DAX measures.
• Ability to design well-labelled, structured databases with standardised schemas, metadata, and clear data maps.
• Experience working with near real-time data pipelines and ensuring scalability for large datasets.

Salary

Application Closing Date: 12th December, 2025

Application Instructions:

Interested and qualified candidates should submit their CV with cover letter (in English, and in PDF or Microsoft Word format) which outlines their experience and suitability for the role, and availability status, by email to: hr.recruitment@ng.bbcmediaaction.org using the job title as the subject of the mail.