Senior Data Engineer - Newport

Intellectual Property Office; Barton; Hybrid; GBP 48,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pluralsight access

Microsoft ESI training

Hybrid working

Career progression

25 days annual leave

Public leave and privilege leave

Job summary

Intellectual Property Office is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join the Digital, Data and Technology team in Newport. You will help develop and optimise enterprise-grade data systems, ETL layers and data integration across IPO cloud estate, working in a hybrid setup with onsite time at the Newport Office.

You will accumulate experience across Azure Data Factory, Databricks, and Python while collaborating with Data Management and BI teams to improve data access and usability for diverse user

Qualifications

• Experience designing and delivering data pipelines and ETL processes.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for data enhancements and delivering data solutions using current toolkit.
• Contribute to developing world-class Data Engineering capabilities for IPO IT & Data.
• Collaborate with Data Management and BI teams to ensure accessible and usable data.
• Build IPO data pipelines and own data engineering artefacts.
• Move data internally and externally to IPO.
• Engage with stakeholders to understand user needs and design decisions.
• Implement data engineering solutions across projects and products using IPO tech.

Skills

ADF/Data Factory

Databricks

Python

Data cleansing

Scalable data services

DevOps

Azure DevOps

Scrum/Agile

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

Azure Data Factory

Databricks

Python

Job description

Senior Data Engineer - Newport

About the job

Job summary

Senior Data Engineer

The IPO is a modern organisation which depends on its IT and Data services to operate and innovate effectively. In order to provide up to date services to our customers both nationally and internationally, our systems need to be developed, improved and maintained.

As a Senior Data Engineer, situated within our Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) department, you will work within a multi-functional delivery team, responsible for the delivery of the robust data services and designs. You will need the appetite to learn new technologies and methodologies for delivering high quality IT services. In this role you will work within a multi-disciplinary squad using several technologies to build enterprise grade services.

Specific responsibilities for this role include the development of data systems as required, development and optimisation of ETL layers, maximising opportunities to re-use existing data flows and provide support in relation to data platforms and data integration within our cloud estate.

Working Style

This role will be carried out in-line with IPO Hybrid working arrangements where staff are currently expected to spend at least 20% of their time working onsite from one of our offices. This role is based in our Newport Office.

The requirement for attendance at an office location can vary by role so we would encourage candidates to discuss working arrangements with the recruiting manager to agree a reasonable balance between working from home and the office.

The IPO holds a visa sponsor licence; however, this role is not eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route. Candidates will therefore need to have an existing right to work in the UK at the time of application.

Job description

Main duties consist of but are not limited to:

• Be responsible for data enhancements and executing plans that utilise the current toolkit and the skills of the team to deliver these.
• Contribute to the development of a world class Data Engineering capability for IPO IT & Data.
• Work closely with our Data Management and Business Intelligence Teams to drive solutions that ensure ease of access to data and help them to work with data more effectively and efficiently.
• Build IPO data pipelines, owning the data engineering artefacts.
• Build solutions to move data internal & external to IPO.
• Engage with stakeholders to build relationships and to gain a thorough understanding of key IPO user groups and design decisions.
• Work across groups, projects, and products to implement data engineering solutions to solve complex business problems, using the IPO's chosen technology.
• Support the vision for the organisation's use of data in line with corporate goals and vision.

Person specification

Essential Criteria

Essential Technical

• Experience of Azure Data Factory (ADF), Data Bricks, Python and other data tooling
• Evidence an ability to design, code, test, correct and document simple programs or scripts.
• Experience of cleansing, preparing and formatting data sets.
• Awareness of designing scalable solutions and future‑proof data services.

Essential Experience

• Has been a key player in delivering technical solutions as part of large projects
• Experienced with modern delivery models such as Scrum and other Agile
• Advocate of DevOps principles
• Experience with Azure DevOps

Behaviours

• Developing Self and Others
• Delivering at Pace
• Working Together

Technical skills

• At interview you will be assessed on technical criteria

Benefits

Alongside your salary of 47,766, Intellectual Property Office contributes 13,837 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

• Unlimited Pluralsight video learning access
• Access to Microsoft's ESI training suite
• Hybrid working with no core hours
• Substantial support for career progression
• 25 days annual leave moving to 30 days in annual increments
• You will also get 8 days public leave and 1 day privilege leave

For more information about what's on offer at the Intellectual Property Office please review our IPO benefit pack attached to the bottom of this advert.

Please note that benefits may be subject to change.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window) , and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

Additional details on security and vetting

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check and if successful you must also hold, or be willing to obtain, a higher Security Clearance .

For meaningful checks to be carried out individuals will need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time, depending on the level of clearance, to enable appropriate checks to be carried out and produce a result which provides the required level of assurance. For this role the successful individual will need to have consistently lived in the UK for a minimum 5 years in order to meet the relevant security clearance.

Further information on the vetting process can be found at National security vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK

Nationality requirements

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window).

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window)

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window) .

In line with Government guidance, successfully appointed candidates will need to provide documents for our Right to Work checks. Information on this will be sent within the invite to interview text.

In the event of a high volume of applications, the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) reserves the right to raise the minimum qualifying score at sift to manage volumes and ensure a proportionate and fair assessment process.

Please be aware that only one application per candidate is permitted for each recruitment campaign. Multiple applications, including those made using different accounts, may result in your application being withdrawn or rejected at any stage of the process.

For more information on the IPO's terms and conditions, please review the attached IPO Modernised Terms and Conditions document attached at the bottom of this advert.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window) .

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window) .

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in a new window) checks.

The Recruitment team operational hours are 09:00 to 17:00 Monday - Friday excluding bank holidays.

Applicants to note: CVs sent direct to the IPO will not be accepted.

We do not routinely reimburse travel expenses for candidates, however if participating in the selection process would cause you undue financial hardship or if it restricts your ability to participate, please contact the recruitment team for more information.