Overview
Our Senior Data Engineers enable public sector organisations to embrace a data-driven approach by providing data platforms and services that are high-quality, cost-efficient, and tailored to clients’ needs. They develop, operate, and maintain these services. They make sure they provide maximum value to data consumers, including analysts, scientists, and business stakeholders.
Key responsibilities
As a Senior Data Engineer, you may play one or more roles according to our clients' needs. The role is very hands-on and you'll support as a senior contributor for a project, focusing on both delivering engineering work as well as upskilling members of the client team. At other points, you might play more of a technical architect role and work with the larger MadeTech team to identify growth opportunities within the account.
You’ll need to have a drive to deliver outcomes for users. You’ll make sure that the wider context of a delivery is considered and maintain alignment between the operational and analytical aspects of the engineering solution.
Responsibilities
- Deliver engineering work as a senior contributor on client projects, and upskill client team members where needed.
- Support technical architecture discussions and collaborate with the MadeTech team to identify growth opportunities within the account.
- Maintain alignment between the operational and analytical aspects of the engineering solution and ensure delivery outcomes for users.
Qualifications
Skills, knowledge and expertise
- Enthusiasm for learning and self-development
- Proficiency in Git (incl. Github Actions) and able to explain the benefits of different branch strategies
- Gathering and meeting the requirements of both clients and users on a data project
- Strong experience in IaC and able to guide how one could deploy infrastructure into different environments
- Owning the cloud infrastructure underpinning data systems through a DevOps approach
- Knowledge of handling and transforming various data types (JSON, CSV, etc) with Apache Spark, Databricks or Hadoop
- Good understanding of the architectures involved in modern data system design (e.g. Data Warehouse, Data Lakes and Data Meshes) and their use cases
- Ability to create data pipelines on a cloud environment and integrate error handling within these pipelines, with reusable libraries to promote consistency across pipelines
- Ability to document and present an end-to-end diagram to explain a data processing system on a cloud environment, with knowledge of diagramming approaches (C4, UML, etc.)
- Provide guidance on implementing a robust DevOps approach in data projects and discuss tools for DataOps in orchestration, data integration and data analytics
- Experience in improving resilience by checking for software vulnerabilities and implementing appropriate testing strategies (unit, integration, data quality, etc.)
- Knowledge of SOLID, DRY and TDD principles and how to apply them in projects
- Agile practices such as Scrum, XP, and/or Kanban
- Designing and implementing efficient data transformation processes at scale (batch and streaming)
- People skills such as mentoring, teamwork, and line management duties
- Commercial mindset to grow accounts organically with senior stakeholders
Desirable experience
- Working at a technology consultancy
- Working with Docker and virtual environments as part of development and CI/CD
- Collaborating with senior stakeholders to gather requirements and keep them engaged
- Experience in working with a team using techniques such as pair programming or mob programming
- Working with data scientists to productionise advanced data deliverables, such as machine learning models
- Working knowledge of statistics
- Working with multidisciplinary digital and technology teams
- Experience of working within the public sector
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We believe we can use tech to make public services better. We also believe this can happen best when our own team represents the society that actually uses the services we work on. We’re collectively continuing to grow a culture that is happy, healthy, safe and inspiring for people of all backgrounds and experiences, so we encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply for roles with us.
When you apply, we’ll put you in touch with a talent partner who can help with any needs or adjustments we may need to make to help with your application. This includes alternative formats for documents, the time allotted for interviews and any other needs. We also welcome any feedback on how we can improve the experience for future candidates.
We’re committed to building a happy, inclusive and diverse workforce. You can get a sense of what it’s like working here from our blog, where we talk about mental health, communities of practice and neurodiversity (as well as our client work and best practice).
Like many organisations, we use Slack to foster a sense of community and connection. As well as special interest groups such as music, food and pets, we also have 10+ Slack channels dedicated to specific communities, allies, and identities as well as dedicated learning spaces called communities of practice (COPs). If you’d like to speak to someone from one of these groups about their experience as an employee, please do let a member of the Made Tech talent team know.
We are always listening to our growing teams and evolving the benefits available to our people. As we scale, as do our benefits and we are scaling quickly. We’ve recently introduced a flexible benefit platform which includes a Smart Tech scheme, Cycle to work scheme, and an individual benefits allowance which you can invest in a Health care cash plan or Pension plan. We’re also big on connection and have an optional social and wellbeing calendar of events for all employees to join should they choose to.
Here are some of our most popular benefits listed below:
- ✈️ 30 days Holiday - we offer 30 days of paid annual leave + bank holidays!
- 👶 Flexible Parental Leave - we offer flexible parental leave options
- 👩 💻 Remote Working - we offer part time remote working for all our staff
- 🤗 Paid counselling - we offer paid counselling as well as financial and legal advice.
An increasing number of our customers are specifying a minimum of SC (security check) clearance in order to work on their projects. As a result, we're looking for all successful candidates for this role to have eligibility.Eligibility for SC requires 5 years' of continuous UK residency. Please note that if at any point during the interview process it is apparent that you may not be eligible for SC, we won't be able to progress your application and we will contact you to let you know why.
