Senior Data Engineer - Anti-Piracy

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.

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, storage, processing, analysis, and visualisation across multiple sources
• Build and optimize 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

• 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

• Generous pension package
• Private healthcare
• Discounted mobile and broadband
• A wide range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences

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