Sky Advertising Technology is looking for a Data Specialist to join the team to work on our data driven projects. You'll use data from across our Advertisement technology ecosystem to help understand and improve the ad experience of our customers while helping with optimising our capacity usage/ deliveries and driving efficiencies.

What you'll do:

With data driving decisions across Sky this is a prominent role in understanding and improving our ad optimisations and capacity planning / forecasting activities and data to support those

• Develop and mentor a team of Data Analysts
• Work closely with data-owners, insights team and developers to understand their data requirements, to be innovative with our data and technology to find new insights and improve data quality and support the decision-making process across Sky's new propositions.
• Define business and technical requirements to develop analytics capability e.g. data strategy and governance, data cleansing, data augmentation, data quality.
• Conduct exploratory and investigative analysis on new/ existing data sources, analyse and interpret key performance measures and trends in multidimensional datasets.
• Creating and maintaining well documented and cleansed data sources to model our data and designing processes to ensure that data models are maintained, and that data is used correctly across the business with ease of access.
• Audit and review implementation / overall data quality to flag tracking issues which could lead to the wrong business decision.
• Providing support, guidance, and examples for end-users across the business to create their own reports
• Driving a "data first" mentality with the Product Managers/Analysts to ensure that they are tracking the right data and interpreting it correctly.

What you'll bring:

• Good analytical skills and data literate with a Degree (or equivalent experience) in applied quantitative field (statistics, mathematics, engineering, technology)
• Confident communicator with an ability to interact with senior stakeholders to gather requirements and present findings.
• Self-starter who's actively curious about data, and how they can be actioned to improve performance/insights.
• Proficient with data retrieval techniques (writing SQL queries, working with APIs), for both on premise databases and cloud services with working knowledge of databases, data structures and reporting systems (ETL knowledge ideal).
• Hands-on experience modelling structured and unstructured data, data profiling, defining data quality rules and metrics/KPIs. Ideally some experience or interest with machine learning techniques.
• Knowledge or experience of working with Google Cloud Platform BI products like BigQuery, Spanner, AI Platform, etc. to efficiently analyse large amounts of data and proficiency with at least one modern BI Tool. For example PowerBI, Tableau, Looker etc.

Department overview:

We're the Product Hub. We're the team behind your favourite Sky products, and the platforms that power them. We make every moment magical, everywhere. Our team is made up of self-motivated, big thinkers who have a knack for solving problems and find new ways to captivate millions of customers by putting them at the heart of everything we do. From Sky Glass, Sky Q, Peacock and NOW to news and sports apps, we make entertainment even better and we can't wait to get started on what's next.

Content Technology & Innovation

Our Content Technology and Innovation team delivers high-quality content to homes, customer devices, businesses and commercial partners across our European markets. With over 2500 colleagues from around the world, we combine our strategic insights, engineering know-how and operational excellence to use the most innovative technologies to create and distribute our award-winning content.

The Rewards:

There's a reason people can't stop talking about #LifeAtSky. Our great range of rewards really are something special, here are just a few:

• Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
• A generous pension package
• Private healthcare
• Discounted mobile and broadband
• Access a wide range of exclusive Sky VIP rewards and experiences

How you'll work:

We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our unique office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home.

We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You'll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process.

Your office base:

Osterley:

Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There's also plenty of bike shelters and showers.

On campus, you'll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon.

Inclusion:

We take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion: we've been recognised by The Times and Stonewall for this, and we've committed £30million to support the fight against racial injustice. We've also set ambitious targets for increasing ethnic diversity and representation throughout our organisation.

At Sky we don't just look at your CV. We're more focused on who you are and your potential. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, so we're happy to discuss flexible working.

And we'll do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you.