Lead Data Engineer

DWP Digital; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

DWP Digital is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to join their team in Leeds. In this role, you will lead the delivery of data engineering solutions and ensure technical requirements are met, working with various stakeholders and team members on innovative data products. The position offers competitive pay and a flexible hybrid working model, alongside multiple benefits aimed at enhancing work-life balance.

Benefits

Flexible hours

28.97% employer pension contributions

Generous leave package starting at 26 days

Volunteering time off

Discounts and savings on shopping

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in leading data engineering teams and projects.
• Ability to predict future technology changes.
• Understanding of data migration to modern platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of data services.
• Ensure reliable and trusted data across platforms.
• Work alongside a multidisciplinary team of data professionals.

Skills

Data engineering leadership

AWS or Azure knowledge

Data integration (ETL/ELT)

Stakeholder management

Education

Degree in Information Technology or related field

Job description

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Base pay range

Pay up to £89,995, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

As a Lead Data Engineer, you will be leading our data engineering delivery, joining our Data & Analytics hub or Health domain spoke. You will lead in the design, building and testing for data services, providing technical direction that ensures we provide reliable, trusted and interoperable data to meet user needs across DWP, other government departments and with our private sector partners.

You will ensure that our data products are built using the right techniques in how we prepare, store and use data. You will also be responsible for collating the technical requirements necessary to be implemented as migration to new platforms are rolled out.

You will work alongside data engineers, responsible for the enhancing the capability within the team. You will also work alongside data scientists, digital performance analysts, testers, content designers, user researchers, and Power BI specialists.

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

We are looking for a Lead Data Engineer to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital.

We're using fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives.

DWP have big ambitions to become a data driven organisation through delivery of our data strategy. These are key roles leading our data engineering delivery in our Data & Analytic hub Data Platform Team, and, within our Health domain data team.

DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work, and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people.

The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? How will this be assessed?

Our application process includes both a technical statement and a personal statement. This is your opportunity to showcase clear examples and evidence of how you meet the following:

Technical Statement:

• Give an example of when you have provided the vision and strategic direction for data engineering, ensuring initiatives are aligned to organisation strategy and objectives.

Personal statements:

• Provides the vision and strategic direction for data engineering, ensuring initiatives are aligned to organisation strategy and objectives.
• Ability and experience of predicting and advising on future technology changes that present opportunities for improvement of DWP platform and tooling tech portfolio.
• Experience leading teams though large-scale data and platform transformation programmes, ensuring best practice and building capability whilst maximising the functionality of incoming technology.
• Experience of delivering migration to modern data platforms including Data Warehouse, Lakehouse, and implementing cross-government/industry Hub and Spoke architecture patterns.
• Experience and detailed understanding of AWS and/or Azure data provision through a loosely coupled cloud stack including Data Integration (ETL/ELT) eg Spark and/or Informatica, Data Quality, Data Catalogue, data storage to provide multi-cloud analytical and insight data for our critical data analyst and data science community.
• Detailed knowledge of establishing engineering standards across multiple platforms and native toolsets. Experience of implementing these standards across platforms and leading technical teams in keeping those standards up to date and ensuring adherence to them.
• Experience of leading and mediating between key stakeholders and developing relationships; communicating with stakeholders at all levels and cross government. Includes manage stakeholders' expectations and facilitating discussions across high risk and complexity or under constrained timescales.

The sift panel will use the information you provide to assess your experience, skills and knowledge against the above.

Full details, as well as application guidance are detailed in the Civil Service Job description - Click "Apply" to be redirected here.

Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, or Newcastle whichever is most convenient for you.

Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub.

Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £89.995.

Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%.

Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time.

You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays.

We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

• An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100)
• Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies
• Time off volunteering and charitable giving
• Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
• Sports and social activities
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.

Process:

We know your time is valuable so our application and selection process is just two stages:

• Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through.
• Interview: a single stage interview online.

CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.

Seniority level

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  Mid-Senior level

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  Government Administration

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