As part of the Transport UK Group, West Midlands Trains delivers around 1,300 train journeys a day, for more than 60 million passengers a year, across our two brands - West Midlands Railway and London Northwestern Railway. We are committed to delivering a safe and reliable train service, by investing in our fleet of trains, stations and employees.
As part of this investment, we are seeking a Data Engineer based in Birmingham on a Full-Time permanent basis. This is a key role in the Business Intelligence team to extract data from existing systems, load it into a central data lake and transform it into useful business intelligence information/dashboards. You will ensure good data quality by cleaning and collating required data streams into appropriate formats for supply to West Midlands Train’s central system and DfT’s Rail Data Marketplace.

WHAT SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE DO I NEED TO DO THE JOB?

• Able to build strong working relationships within the company, particularly at peer group level, interpret end user requests into the development of useful tools that add value and increase efficiency.
• Experience of the rail industry would be preferable, having an understanding of the way that the rail industry is structured, operates and the type of data produced will greatly help in the use of that data to create value adding outputs
• Ability to respond to a wide range of complex and conflicting interests and to communicate effectively with key stakeholders in their resolution.
• Self-starter with the ability to lead mini development processes
• Conscientious approach to work, to undertake sufficient testing, checking and to provide assurance that data quality is good and reporting outputs are accurate and reflective.

Please refer the Job description for details