Your team: The News UK Data team is embarking on a new chapter of growth, driving the company’s AI strategy and supporting our brands in achieving data-powered product growth. Our cross-functional, Agile teams span London, Sofia, and Bangalore, working collectively to handle the collection, ingestion, utilisation, and warehousing of data, alongside asset enrichment through machine learning and AI. We build industry-leading insights tools, consumer-facing AI features, and efficiency tooling to foster data-informed decision-making across the entire business.
Your role: We are looking for a Data Solutions Engineer to join the team on a 12 month maternity cover contract. In this role, you will collaborate closely with engineering and platform teams to build robust pipelines, unravel complex data problems, and turn bold ideas into transformative data products.
Day to day you will:
Contribute to the design and implementation of scalable, performant, and cost-effective data solutions.
Deliver all technical work in alignment with agreed data architecture principles, standards, and best practices.
Design optimized data marts tailored for downstream consumption across BI visualization tools, Customer Data Platforms, and APIs.
Collaborate closely with Data Engineering, Data Governance, and Data Platforms teams to ensure secure, efficient, and policy-compliant implementations.
What we're looking for from you:
Deep technical expertise delivering end-to-end data solutions utilizing BigQuery, Dataform, and Airflow.
Advanced SQL and data modeling capabilities specifically tailored for complex analytics and reporting use-cases.
Practical knowledge designing and orchestrating data workflows, dependencies, and managed transformations.
Proven background working alongside business analysts to successfully gather, clarify, and validate technical requirements.
Strong troubleshooting capabilities to navigate complex, large-scale data environments.
Collaborative communication skills with the ability to lead technical discussions across both engineering teams and non-technical audiences.
Solid understanding of data quality, reliability, and operational best practices.
If you think you have what it takes but don’t tick every requirement on the list, please do apply. We recognise that considering someone’s potential as well as their experience is a great way to hire. We want to hear from people who have a passion to learn and develop.
News UK is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multi-format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter.
At News UK, we embrace a hybrid work model, currently requiring a minimum of three days per week in the office. This approach fosters collaboration, innovation, and team spirit within our workspace. Certain roles may necessitate additional in-office days; please discuss this with your recruiter for specific requirements.
Life at News
Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.
We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter most. To ensure these stories resonate with as broad an audience as possible, it is essential that our organisation reflects the diversity of the people we reach. Whether through age, gender, ethnicity, disability, social class or sexuality, we are committed to representing the rich variety of voices that make up our society. And we champion a culture where everyone has the opportunity to contribute and thrive as we continue to innovate and drive long term sustainable growth. This is done through our Diversity Strategy.
At News UK, we take pride in our exceptional employee-led networks that bring together individuals with shared interests and create a vibrant sense of community. We believe our networks play a vital role in fostering a collaborative and supportive work culture at News UK. Groups that we support include the African & Caribbean Network, Parents and Carers, and LGBTQ+ group News Is Out, and the Apprentice Society.
Benefits
Some of our benefits include:
Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly in person/ virtual exercise classes
‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme
Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year
We are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process. If you require reasonable adjustments due to a disability or health condition at any stage of your application or interview, please let us know. You can contact us at [email protected] to discuss how we can support you to perform at your best.
