Data Engineers

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP); Sheffield; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is seeking experienced Data Engineers to join the Management Information (MI) team. You will develop data pipelines and analytics capabilities in cloud and on-prem environments, contributing to the DWP Data Engineering Strategy for MI products and services.

You will collaborate with stakeholders across DWP, maintain technical documentation in Confluence, mentor junior engineers, and review code to ensure high-quality data transformations powering MI

Qualifications

• Experience building scalable data engineering solutions for analytical reporting.
• Ability to gather and translate requirements from stakeholders into data processes.
• Maintaining comprehensive technical documentation in Confluence.
• Mentoring junior data engineers and sharing knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain scalable data pipelines powering MI reporting.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across DWP to clarify and translate requirements.
• Maintain technical documentation and knowledge sharing in Confluence.
• Review code from peers to ensure quality and coding standards.
• Provide guidance to junior data engineers.

Skills

Data engineering

Stakeholder collaboration

Documentation

Mentoring juniors

Code review

Tools

Confluence

Job description

DWP's Digital Group is looking for experienced Data Engineers to fill post in Management Information (MI) team. The MI team provides strategic capabilities for MI reporting and data visualisations across DWP. Working with modern cloud environments alongside legacy on-premises technologies, you'll play a key role in developing the DWP Data Engineering Strategy for MI products and services. Successful candidates will join a fast-paced environment with a wide portfolio of products for analytical use and a challenging delivery roadmap. You'll focus on a variety of tasks, supporting platform live service and delivering high quality, data transformation products.

• Building and maintain scalable data engineering solutions that power analytical reporting, working in line with DWP's engineering standards.
• Collaborating with stakeholders across DWP to gather and clarify requirements where needed and translate them into scalable back-end data processes that support MI reporting needs.
• Maintaining comprehensive technical documentation and collaborative workspaces in Confluence to improve transparency, knowledge sharing, and onboarding.
• Working closely with other junior data engineers to provide guidance, share technical expertise, and actively support ongoing knowledge sharing.
• Reviewing code developed by fellow engineers to ensure quality, maintainability, and adherence to DWP coding standards.