Senior Data Engineer - Cloud Cost & Data Pipelines (Hybrid)

UK Home Office; Salford; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 57,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Civil Service Pension

25 days annual leave

In-year reward scheme

Hybrid work model

Job summary

UK Home Office is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design and manage data flows connecting operational systems with analytics and BI. You will build data pipelines, develop data models and ETL processes, and mentor junior team members in an agile environment.

Based in a hybrid setup with 60% office attendance, you will work with finance and cloud platform teams to cost dashboards, reporting and recharge activities, while supporting security clearances and governance requirements.

Qualifications

• Experience of finance processes, procedures, and controls (ideally in UK Government), processing financial transactions accurately and in line with delegated authorities, financial regulations, and audit requirements, including an ability to identify, investigate, and resolve financial discrepancies in a timely manner.
• Strong understanding of financial governance, risk management, and internal control frameworks, excellent attention to detail and commitment to accuracy in financial processing.
• Practical experience of receipting and invoicing, including purchase-to-pay (P2P) and order-to-cash (O2C) processes, working with finance systems and ERP platforms, e.g. Oracle.
• Experience of working collaboratively with suppliers, commercial teams, and operational stakeholders to ensure compliance with contractual and financial requirements, with an ability to communicate complex financial information clearly to a range of stakeholders.
• The delivery of projects in data analysis, solution design and end user reporting.
• Experience of any of the following: IT programming and automation, using tools such as industry standard ETL tools, network databases and scheduling and orchestration tools, using modern / open source programming languages in order to deliver data development / engineering products, using public cloud data technologies.
• Effectively managing and communicating with non-technical and senior stakeholders about performance and analysis.

Responsibilities

• Analysing problems and experimenting with possible solutions to identify underlying causes and assist in developing innovative solutions.
• Designing and implementing a data streaming service with new data models and ETL processes.
• Ensuring the successful delivery of completed data loads for customers, Data Analysts and Data Scientists.
• Designing, building and testing data products and solutions at large scale through full development, test and deployment lifecycles.
• Applying data modelling concepts across multiple subject areas and guiding usage.
• Working experience of finance processes, procedures, and controls (ideally in UK Government) with accurate financial processing.
• IT programming and automation using ETL tools, network databases and orchestration tools, and cloud data technologies.
• Effectively communicating with non-technical and senior stakeholders about performance and analysis.

Skills

Analysing problems

Data flows design

ETL processes

Data modelling

Stakeholder communication

Cloud data technologies

Automation

Programming languages

Tools

Oracle ERP

ETL tools

Orchestration tools

Open source languages

Job description

UK Home Office is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design and manage data flows connecting operational systems with analytics and BI. You will build data pipelines, develop data models and ETL processes, and mentor junior team members in an agile environment.

Based in a hybrid setup with 60% office attendance, you will work with finance and cloud platform teams to cost dashboards, reporting and recharge activities, while supporting security clearances and governance requirements.