We are News UK Technology: using technology to innovate and lead the global conversation on the future of media and storytelling. We keep people at the heart of our business through value-driven and inclusive practices enabling our staff to grow and thrive. As such, we are proud members of Tech Talent Charter UK with 34% of our Tech roles filled by gender minorities. News UK Tech is an award-winning team, winning Team of the Year at the UK Business and Innovation Awards, 2023.
The Team: the Central Data team is a passionate team of data scientists, engineers and experts who use machine learning and data to power the digital products, marketing and advertising experience of customers across our many brands, build innovative tools for our newsrooms and govern the effective and ethical use of data.
Our award winning initiatives include: for pioneering the adoption of GenAI tools in a measured and governed environment (AI Innovators Honour Award by DataIQ), for the creation of the personalisation capability which doubled ad revenues and increased article clicks by over 40% year on year (Best New Product or Service: Sell-side by The Wires and the Best Use of Data to Drive a Business Result by INMA Global Media Awards); and INCA, our suite of tools to power workflows and aide decision making in our newsrooms (Best technical innovation at the Drum’s online media awards).
Our team work on a modern cloud stack, including GCP and AWS, multiple Python, deep learning and cloud based tools and frameworks for machine learning, with specialisms in natural language processing, and React, GraphQL, Node, D3 for developing APIs and flexible front end product components and data visualisation.
Your Role: We are in the process of re-positioning data governance as a ‘force for good’ and a means of creating competitive advantage for our brands and group business units, and this role is key to achieve this objective. Reporting to the Head of Data Enablement, the Data Enablement manager role will contribute to the strategy and implementation of governance, to ensure that our company’s data is protected whilst enabling its effective and ethical use by the business.