Lead Data Engineer

at  Cabinet Office

JOB DESCRIPTION

We are seeking a talented Cloud Engineer to join our leading AI team. You will collaborate with AI engineers, researchers and other roles to architect and implement the infrastructure powering our cutting-edge AI products and services.
This is a radical innovation team, and we hire team members who are collaborative, energetic, and are motivated to “get stuff done”, as well as being optimistic big picture thinkers. This role is perfect for somebody looking to operate in a start-up environment, using their skills and experience in central Government to make things happen for the public good. You will be expected to take initiative, playing a convening function to bring together the whole team, and make i.AI the best it can be. This might mean working outside of your direct remit, for example getting stuck into AI projects, or operational management of the team - if this sounds exciting, we’d love to hear from you!

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE

• Deep experience of Cloud Architecture
• Expert in Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
• Strong experience of AWS
• Excellent knowledge of Cloud Architecture best practices
• Ability to setup and architect CI/CD pipelines.

DESIRABLE EXPERIENCE

• Good familiarity with containerisation
• Knowledge of scripting languages including Bash and Python.
• Experience with orchestration technologies like Airflow and Dagster.
• Experience the infrastructure required to train and run Large Language Models
  We welcome a broad range of applicants and encourage you to apply. Strong candidates come from many different backgrounds. Studies show that talented people, especially those from groups underrepresented in their field, are more likely to doubt themselves and feel like an “imposter”. Unique perspectives enrich teams, so we urge you to have confidence in your potential contributions. If aspects of this role resonate with you, please apply. We look forward to your application highlighting your skills and experiences.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

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

• Technical skills outlined in the job description and person specification.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £64,700, Cabinet Office contributes £17,469 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Learning and development tailored to your role.
• An environment with flexible working options.
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.
• A Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and average employer contributions of 27%.
• A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by one day per year up to a maximum of 30.

Things you need to know

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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ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Build and design cutting-edge data architecture that can support rapid development of in-house prototypes and then be rolled out and leveraged across government for transformational impact across the public sector.
• Support the team to develop our AI capability and contribute towards a modern and flexible data architecture that can be leveraged for a whole variety of projects.
• Build robust and secure infrastructure that is capable of meeting security standards when handling sensitive data.
• Understand and implement industry best practice for handling large amounts of data in robust, secure and efficient way.
• Work flexibly with all team members to deliver on the mission of i.AI - to harness the power of AI for the public good. This means sometimes you will be working outside of your direct brief.
• Support the effective performance of the team by promoting diversity, inclusion, regular, honest and constructive feedback, and supporting continuous improvement.