Industrial Placement 2025 - Data Engineers

at  Met Office

JOB SUMMARY

The Met Office is delighted to open our advertising for a number of Industrial Placements, which will commence from July 2025 until July 2026.
We’re looking for two exceptional Data Engineer Industrial Placements to help us make a difference to our planet.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Met Office on a 12-month Year in Industry placement, developing your skills and knowledge and ensuring you gain the most value possible from your experience with us. You will have the opportunity to network with our cohort of Industrial Placements all over the Met Office and understand what career opportunities we can offer you after you graduate.
As our Data Engineer Industrial Placement, the job may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in the office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and the location advertised will be your contractual place of work.
Our opportunity is full time, 37 hours per week. Our people are at the heart of what we do and we’ll do our best to agree a working pattern that works for everyone.

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Studying towards a degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Data Engineering, or a related field which MUST incorporate a placement year (i.e. sandwich course).
• Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, Scala, or R.
• Understanding of data flows, data structures, algorithms, data engineering principles, and business intelligence (BI) systems.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills
• Interest in weather and climate science.
  Benefits
  Alongside your salary of £25,606, Met Office contributes £7,418 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• 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

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An Industrial Placement Data Engineer learns on the job and you will develop skills while working under supervision to deliver stories in a multidisciplinary team to:

• Understand and be proficient in different data types used in the Met Office
• Understand the scripts/methods used to transform our data
• Be able to share with others in the importance of data engineerin

YOUR KEY DUTIES

An Industrial Placement Data Engineer learns on the job and you will develop skills while working under supervision to deliver stories in a multidisciplinary team to:

• Understand and be proficient in different data types used in the Met Office
• Understand the scripts/methods used to transform our data
• Be able to share with others in the importance of data engineering