Senior Data Engineer - Platforms and Tooling

UK Home Office
Salford
1 month ago
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Senior Data Engineer – Platforms and Tooling

UK Home Office

As a Senior Data Engineer in the Platforms and Tooling team, you will maintain, manage and upgrade the Vantage MI platform using modern cloud technologies such as Microsoft Azure Synapse, SQL, Power BI and Microsoft Fabric.

You will be a key team member, supervising:

  • Technical Administration
  • Analytics and MI platform upgrades, efficiency and innovation
  • Day‑to‑day issue management and resolution
  • Support for the Tooling and Data Strategies

You will establish and detail key support processes which enable the team to scale and automate system maintenance, improving services for end users and developers. The MI Platforms and Tooling team will collaborate closely with the Performance Reporting & Analysis Unit (PRAU), Home Office Digital and other teams in the Department.

Base pay range

Senior Data Engineer – Platforms and Tooling

Hubs: Croydon, Liverpool, Salford, Sheffield

A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97 %

Responsibilities
  • Designing, building and maintaining cloud platforms and tools to enable MI teams to work effectively.
  • Working with engineering teams to ensure MI platforms and tooling are integrated with other systems and comply with security and regulatory standards.
  • Working with the 1st and 2nd line support teams to handle incidents and proactively monitor common issues to resolve root causes.
  • Documenting key platform and tooling configurations and procedures.
  • Providing technical support and delivering training to help other engineers deploy high‑quality MI services.
  • Developing monitoring and observability tools to agreed standards for technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
  • Adhering to an ‘accessible by default’ approach in all delivery and documentation activities, implementing accessibility across Power BI reporting and supporting documentation.
  • Supporting the rollout and adoption of MS Power BI across the organisation.
  • Enabling data ingestion into the Vantage platform from various sources in a secure and cost‑effective way.
  • Assisting in the successful delivery of completed data loads for customers, Data Engineers and Data Scientists and in developing new data load programmes.
  • Identifying areas for cost savings and greater efficiency.
Qualifications and Skills
  • Experience in automating repetitive tasks via programming or low/no‑code automation tools.
  • Collaboration experience delivering technical products to a varied user base.
  • Experience in data analysis, solution design and end‑user reporting.
  • Automation or development experience with Power BI, Azure Automation, Azure Data Factory, Azure DevOps, or Microsoft Fabric.
  • Proficiency in modern programming languages such as Python for high‑quality data development solutions.
  • Ability to manage and communicate with non‑technical and senior stakeholders about performance and analysis.
  • Knowledge of continuous improvement/development practices in data engineering.
  • Problem‑solving skills with consideration for wider impact on teams and customers.
  • Effective line management experience is required.
Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Management and Engineering

Industry: Government Administration


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