Data Engineer

About the role

As a Data Engineer in ITV's Business Data Engineering team, you will help build and operate the Synapse platform – ITV’s operational data engine – enabling high‑quality data to power core viewer experiences.

Key responsibilities

• Build and maintain high‑throughput streaming and batch pipelines on Dataflow and BigQuery, using Python for orchestration and Go for low‑latency viewer‑facing services.
• Deploy and manage services with Terraform, writing custom pipelines when needed.
• Write unit and integration tests, perform load testing ahead of major live events, and set up metrics and alerting using native GCP logging, Grafana and Prometheus.
• Implement fine‑grained GCP IAM access controls and participate in on‑call support rota.

Required profile

• Hands‑on experience with GCP services such as Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Dataflow, Composer/Airflow, Cloud Functions, GKE and Cloud Build.
• Strong SQL skills and proficiency in at least one of Python, Java or Go.
• Experience with Terraform and containerised service deployment.
• Comfortable working in an Agile, matrixed environment across multiple countries.

Required skills

• GCP (Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Dataflow, Composer/Airflow, Cloud Functions, GKE, Cloud Build)
• Python
• Java
• Go
• SQL
• Terraform
• Grafana
• Prometheus
• CI/CD pipelines

What we offer

• Hybrid working (1‑2 days onsite per week)
• Flexible working options
• Generous holiday allowance with the ability to buy more
• Annual bonus opportunity
• Competitive pension contribution
• Share purchase scheme
• Wellbeing and volunteering days