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JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: Product Group
LOCATION: Salford – Dock House, Newcastle – Newcastle Broadcasting Centre, Glasgow – Pacific Quay (Hybrid)
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: Up to £55,000 depending on relevant experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
As a Senior Data Tracking Implementation Analyst at the BBC, you will play a pivotal role in helping us collect the data we need to make data informed decisions. You will be working alongside product managers and analysts to understand their data needs and then translate them into the right structures and schemas, estimating the effort and priority of the work required. You will also work with our engineering teams to help them interpret the events correctly.
Why Join the Team
You will be part of a dynamic team that plays a pivotal role in changing the data landscape in the BBC via strategic projects and ensures data quality and consistency via the support function. This role will not purely be focused on designing or implementing schemas, this is balanced with evaluating downstream impact, validating incoming data to ensure it complies with our standards and engaging in transformational projects that improve the way we handle tracking.
Your Key Responsibilities and Impact
· Create, own and maintain tracking specifications for the products and features in your area by collaborating with key stakeholders in product areas
· Lead and drive the definition of tracking event schemas; conforming to a coherent event taxonomy and naming standards and conventions
· Transform business requirements to technical event specifications developed with other members of the Product Management and Analytics teams
· Own acceptance criteria, definition of done and troubleshooting of analytics related issues and provide QA sign off for tech implementation alongside product engineering teams
· Input into the strategic direction of our data tracking tools and schema evolution
Your Skills and Experience
We are looking for someone with the following skills and experience. Please do not think you have to tick all boxes, you will be working in a supportive and collaborative team, where we aim to put everyone in the condition to contribute at their best and feel that their work is useful and valued. Besides, you will find great development and learning opportunities to support your professional growth. We value diversity and are committed to be truly inclusive and a place where everyone belongs.
Technical skills
Essential Criteria
· Previous experience implementing data tracking or tagging in websites, web applications and/or mobile applications with a strong understanding of best practices
· Ability to accurately estimate pieces of work and dynamically prioritise based on incoming requests
· Previous experience of translating business requirements into technical/data requirements
· Ability to clearly communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences.
· Ability to collaborate effectively, working alongside other team members towards the team’s goals, mentoring and enabling others to succeed, where possible.
Desired But not Required
· Experience of using analytics tools (e.g., Google Analytics, Adobe analytics, ATI Piano, Mixpanel) or tagging tools (e.g., Google Tag Manager)
· Some experience of using SQL, HTML and Javascript
· Experience of working with data quality tools or writing data quality test is a bonus
· Strong attention to detail
· Ability to listen to others’ ideas and build on them
Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer
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