Senior Data Engineer

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DETAILS REFERENCE NUMBER 471226 SALARY £44,241 - £58,997 National base salary - £44,241 London base salary - £48,581 With an allowance up to £14,756 GBP JOB GRADE Senior Executive Officer CONTRACT TYPE Permanent BUSINESS AREA DFT - Decarbonisation, Technology & Strategy Group (DTS) TYPE OF ROLE Analytical WORKING PATTERN Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time NUMBER OF JOBS AVAILABLE 2

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Qualifications

• licenses at some point during the recruitment process.
• If you cannot provide evidence, your application will be withdrawn.
• Required experience:
• To be successful in this role you will need to have the following experience:
• Hands-on delivery of robust, maintainable data pipelines in Google Cloud Platform or alternative cloud providers.
• Including building reusable components, optimising performance and cost, and applying engineering standards and high‑quality coding practices.
• Proficient user of data engineering
• communicate solutions, and support delivery of change and improvement within the data landscape.
• Additional Information
• The base pay is £44,241 (National) £48,581 (London).
• In addition to this the role includes a Digital and Data allowance of up to £14,756.
• The value of allowance awarded will be based on an assessment of your

Responsibilities

• will include, but aren’t limited to:
• Collaborate with team members and stakeholders to build and operate DfT’s production‑grade data pipelines and platforms, ensuring reliability and security across our Google Cloud Platform environment.
• Manage live data services; resolving issues at pace to maintain high‑quality data delivery for analysts, policy teams and external commitments.
• Take a leading role in developing and improving legacy systems, ensuring our data infrastructure is modern and meets ongoing needs.
• Support innovation within data engineering, identifying opportunities to modernise tooling, adopt emerging GCP capabilities and introduce new approaches that improve efficiency and data quality.
• Work closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders, translating technical concepts, shaping data‑related decisions, and responding to business need.
• Act as a champion of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), improving and developing repeatable patterns for environments, access, and data services.
• Drive the development of our metadata catalogue, curating business and technical metadata so users can effectively discover and use data.
• For further information on the role, please read the role profile.
• Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process.
• This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.
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