Your role: Data Engineer
A hands-on role building scalable data infrastructure that powers AI-driven products and audience intelligence.
As a Data Engineer at Global, you will:
Key Responsibilities• Data Platform & Pipeline Engineering (60%): Design, build and maintain scalable batch and near real-time pipelines across ingestion, transformation and serving layers. Develop reusable data models and optimise performance, reliability and cost.
• Platform Evolution & Engineering Excellence (20%): Shape the Global:IQ data platform through best practices in architecture, tooling, CI/CD and infrastructure as code. Create reusable components and maintain clear technical documentation.
• Quality & Governance (10%): Implement robust data validation, testing, lineage and observability to ensure high-quality, trusted datasets. Support governance and privacy-conscious data handling.
• Collaboration & Enablement (10%): Partner with Data Science, MLOps, Product and commercial teams to deliver production-ready data solutions. Support and mentor others while communicating clearly with stakeholders.
What You’ll Love About This RoleThink Big: Build a data platform from the ground up that will scale with a cutting-edge AI and ML product.
Own It: Take responsibility for production-grade data systems that directly power targeting, optimisation and measurement.
Keep it Simple: Apply pragmatic engineering to deliver reliable, maintainable solutions without over-engineering.
Better Together: Work in a highly collaborative, cross-functional team spanning technical and commercial expertise.
What Success Looks LikeIn your first few months, you’ll have:
• Developed a strong understanding of the Global:IQ platform and its core use cases
• Successfully onboarded key datasets with robust ingestion and quality standards
• Delivered reliable pipelines supporting live production use cases
• Established or improved data engineering standards and best practices
• Built strong working relationships across Data, Product and commercial teams
• Identified opportunities to improve scalability, reliability and efficiency
• Programming & Data Skills: Strong Python and SQL skills, with experience building production-grade data pipelines
• Data Platform Experience: Hands-on experience with modern data tools (e.g. Snowflake, Airflow, dbt) and cloud environments (preferably AWS)
• Engineering Best Practice: Knowledge of CI/CD, testing, version control and infrastructure as code
• Data Quality & Governance: Understanding of observability, validation and maintaining reliable data systems
• Collaboration & Communication: Ability to translate business and data science needs into scalable solutions and communicate clearly with stakeholders
• Mindset & Approach: Pragmatic, ownership-driven and curious, with a passion for building impactful data products
Skills Required
- Strong Python and SQL skills
- Experience building production-grade data pipelines
- Hands-on experience with modern data tools (Snowflake, Airflow, dbt)
- Experience with cloud environments
- AWS experience
- Knowledge of CI/CD, testing, version control and infrastructure as code
- Understanding of data observability, validation, lineage and governance
- Ability to collaborate with Data Science, MLOps, Product and commercial teams and communicate with stakeholders
- Pragmatic, ownership-driven and curious mindset
What We Do
The UK and Europe’s largest Radio & Outdoor company, Global is home to respected, national market-leading media brands broadcasting across the UK on DAB & FM and around the world on Global Player, including Heart, Capital, LBC, Capital XTRA, Capital Dance, Classic FM, Smooth, Radio X and Gold. Global Player allows listeners to enjoy all of Global’s radio brands, award-winning podcasts, and expertly curated playlists, in one place in app, on web and on smart speakers. Global is also one of the leading Outdoor companies in both the UK & Europe, with over 253,000 sites reaching 95% of the UK population. Global’s extensive and diverse outdoor portfolio encompasses Transport for London’s Underground network, almost all major UK airports including Gatwick, the UK’s largest portfolio of roadside posters and premium digital screens in prime locations, as well as the UK’s largest network of buses including all major cities. On-air, on Global Player and with our outdoor platforms combined, Global reaches 51 million individuals across the UK every week, including 26.3 million on the radio alone.
