Senior Data Engineer

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

How to Apply

Click the 'Applynow' button and complete the application form by providing the following:

Your CV

• Upload an anonymised copy of your current CV. Please remove all identifying markers such as name, title, education institution etc.
• Make sure it clearly shows how you meet the essential criteria listed in the Person Specification.

For further information on the sift and interview stages of this recruitment campaign, please head to our 'Things you need to know' section below.

Please visit our Civil Service Careers page - IPO – Recruitment Support , Civil Service Careers (civil-service-careers.gov.uk)

If you require job-specific information, please contact Alex Morgan.

E-mail: [email removed]

Telephone: [phone removed]

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

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

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• 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