Senior Software Engineer, BBC Verify
Posted 4 hours 47 minutes ago by BBC Group and Public Services
Job Reference: 20803
Band: D
Salary: Up to £70,000 plus London weighting depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.
Contract type: Permanent
Location: London - Hybrid
We're happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
Benefits- Excellent career progression - the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
- Unrivalled training and development opportunities - our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
- Benefits: We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme, and discounted dental, health care and gym.
BBC Verify brings together open-source intelligence (OSINT) specialists, disinformation reporters, fact checkers and data journalists to find impactful stories and to offer new lines and compelling coverage of the biggest issues across BBC News's website, social media, television and radio.
The successful candidate will work alongside three other data scientists, using their computing skills to multiply the story-finding and story-telling capacity of BBC Verify.
Main ResponsibilitiesThis is a role for a data scientist, programmer, or a mix of both who specializes in ingesting, analyzing and explaining satellite data and who can work effectively in news as part of a multidisciplinary team.
Examples of recent projects include:
- Automating steps in the collection and presentation of satellite imagery in order to speed the assessment of damage in military conflict.
The successful candidate must have:
- Extensive experience finding newsworthy insights in a broad range of satellite data sources.
- Extensive experience developing automated tools that have the potential to find stories in satellite data.
- Experience of embedding the latest research practices/techniques relating to use of satellite data in non-expert groups.
- Extensive experience programming in R and/or Python to automate the extraction, cleaning, transformation and analysis of satellite data.
- An understanding of delivering stories or projects with editorial content to tight deadlines.
- Experience identifying, proposing and delivering new ideas for analysis OR improvements to workflows based on technical skills and understanding of the organisation's needs.
- The communication skills to work with non-technical colleagues to identify the technical strengths and weaknesses of story ideas and to explain analysis findings and caveats clearly and concisely.
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