Senior Data Engineer (1 role available), Data Directorate, Ministry of Justice

at  Ministry of Justice

Salary
The national salary range is £39,868 - £43,535, London salary range is £45,824 - £50,039. Your salary will be dependent on your base location.
Number of jobs available
1
Detail of reserve list
12 Months
Region
National
City/Town
National
Building/Site

SEO

Post Type
Permanent
Working Pattern
Full Time, Part Time, Part Time/Job Share, Flexible Working
Role Type
Analytical, Architecture and Data, Engineering
Will the successful applicant have line manager responsibilities?
Yes
Job description

SENIOR DATA ENGINEER (SEO), DATA DIRECTORATE, MINISTRY OF JUSTICE

Hello!
Welcome to the Data & Analysis directorate at the Ministry of Justice and thank you for taking an interest in this role. We’re looking for 1 Senior Data Engineer to join our growing team. The successful candidate will join the Data Modelling and Engineering Team (DMET), although we also work closely with the Data Platform team. A summary of the type of work the teams are involved in can be found in our handbook. We’re also hosting a webinar on Monday 2nd September 2024 from 18:00 to 19:00 for anyone interested in learning more about the team and the roles we’re currently recruiting. You can sign up via this link.
This is a great opportunity to work with leading cloud technology and help change the way data is used in the public sector. Data engineers at MoJ play a critical role in our mission to put data at the heart of decision-making. We’re looking for people with the drive to develop a deep understanding of data needs and data availability across specific areas of the Ministry of Justice. You will work in a team of Data Engineers, alongside Analytics Engineers, to bridge the gap between data producers and data users, developing analytical pipelines and self-service tools to acquire and transform data, making it available on our Analytical Platform.

As a Senior Data Engineer your work might involve:

• designing and building robust and scalable automated data flows to connect operational systems, data for analytics and business intelligence (BI) systems
• recognising opportunities to reuse and re-engineer data flows to enable scaling and repeatable use
• designing and writing ETL (extract, transform, load) scripts and code to ensure the ETL process performs optimally
• working with data users to understand and translate their needs into technical requirements
• using a range of AWS services to deploy your solutions in a reproducible, sustainable manner
• using infrastructure-as-code to deploy AWS cloud infrastructure
• developing and optimising code, tools and services that enable people to use data effectively

You may also be expected to carry out the following day to day activities:

• designing and maintaining technical documentation
• creating and promoting best practices within the team and wider
• responding to incident reports, ensuring relevant prioritisation and detail to allow for effective investigation
• developing novel solutions to fit the needs of a range of stakeholders
• supporting the Ministry of Justice’s Analytical Platform users to use our data and tools
• initiating team-building and development initiatives
• line managing a more junior colleague

ESSENTIAL SKILLS

You’ll have a demonstrable passion for Data Engineering, with the following skills or some experience in:

• Python
• automated testing, for example with pytest
• version control tools, such as git
• working with a range of data sources
• working with data, such as data wrangling, analysis or manipulation

DESIRABLE SKILLS

It’s a bonus if you also have experience of:

• Kubernetes and container-based workflows
• continuous integration and deployment tools, such as GitHub Actions
• cloud infrastructure, especially AWS, and infrastructure as code tools, such as Terraform
• orchestration systems, such as Airflow
• big data tools, such as Spark
• data transformation tools, such as dbt
• Data Lake table formats, such as Iceberg

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Please refer the Job description for details