Senior Analytics Engineer

Public Sector Resourcing; England; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A government agency is seeking a Senior Analytics Engineer to work on a 4-month hybrid contract. The role involves building and maintaining data pipelines, developing comprehensive data models, and collaborating with analytics engineers. Essential skills include SQL, jinja, and dbt. SC Clearance is mandatory for this position. This opportunity is available to candidates located in the UK only.

Qualifications

• SC Clearance is essential, willing to undergo checks.
• Experience programming in Python is desirable.
• Experience with cloud platforms, ideally AWS.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain data pipelines for the analytical platform.
• Develop comprehensive data models reflecting business processes.
• Collaborate with teams to deliver high-quality data models.

Skills

Excellent SQL and jinja skills

Experience using dbt

Collaboration with analytics engineers

Understanding data and business processes

Reviewing and designing data models

Data documentation alignment

Engaging with business stakeholders

Tools

Python

AWS

Job description

On behalf of The Ministry of Justice, we are looking for a Senior Analytics Engineer (Inside IR35) for a 4 month contract based Hybrid in any MOJ UK Office.

HMPPS data engineers in the Data Modelling and Engineering team build and maintain data pipelines to our Analytical Platform from operational prison and probation services. Our analytics engineers build dimensional models on top of these data pipelines to provide useful and usable data to downstream users, including analysts, performance teams and data scientists. Over time, this is reducing dependence on manual, legacy processes that are time‑consuming, error‑prone and inefficient.

With new microservices being developed by Digital Prisons and Probation Services to replace existing operational databases, substantial data and analytics engineering support is required to maintain critical feeds of data to downstream applications.

Current models have been developed in a piecemeal manner for specific reporting requirements. Given the current scale of change, we would like to take a step back to develop a more comprehensive data model which reflects business processes and analytical needs. To build such a model we would take advantage of data linking technology and new data sources / services.

We are looking for an experienced, collaborative, Analytics Engineer with exceptional data modelling skills and strong experience using dbt to support us in accelerating the development of the above model.

Essential

• Excellent SQL and jinja skills.
• Experience using dbt, including implementing dbt best practices.
• Experience collaborating with a team of analytics engineers, delivering high quality data models by applying best practices.
• Experience working with data users to develop understanding of data and its relation to business processes.
• Experience reviewing, designing and developing conceptual, logical and physical data models.
• Experience ensuring that data documentation is aligned with user requirements.
• Experience engaging and maintaining relationships with business stakeholders and cross‑functional teams.

SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position (short‑term nature of this role and speed at which we require a postholder in situ) preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance.

Desirable

• Experience programming in Python.
• Experience with cloud platforms, ideally AWS.
• Experience building dashboards or data applications.
• Experience building CI/CD workflows, ideally with GitHub Actions.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, MOJ guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant

The Ministry of Justice guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex‑military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".