Data Engineer

Richmond Hill
1 year ago
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Pay up to £58,347, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

As a Data Engineer you'll be working within a high-performing team of engineers, developing data-centric solutions that positively impact millions of DWP users, helping them to find and use essential DWP services.

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

We are looking for a Data Engineer to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital.

We're using fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives.

DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work, and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people.

The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?

Experience of developing, testing, maintaining, deploying and supporting efficient, scalable, automated ETL pipelines in an AWS cloud environment using AWS S3 Cloud Object Storage
Strong coding skills using Hive SQL, Spark SQL, Python, PySpark and Bash
Experience of working with a wide variety of structured and unstructured data.

You and your role

As a Data Engineer at DWP, you'll be executing code across a full tech stack, including Azure, Databricks, PySpark and Pandas, helping the department to move towards a cloud computing environment, working with huge data sets as part of our DataWorks platform - a system that provides Universal Credit data to our Data Science team, helping improve our data security, integrity and cloud based technology.

Details. Wages. Perks.

Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Sheffield, whichever is most convenient for you.

Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub.

Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £58,347.

Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £16,862 per year.

Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days and rising to 27 days after one year.

You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays.

We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100)
Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies
Time off volunteering and charitable giving
Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
Sports and social activities
Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.

Process:

We know your time is valuable so our application and selection process is just two stages:

Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through.
Interview: a single stage interview online.

CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application

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