Data Engineer (Development Role)

Do you have a track record of successfully contributing to resilient and scalable data pipelines?

Do have experience of using cloud technologies such as AWS/Azure/GCP?

Are you seeking a role with the opportunity for development?

If so, read on! We have an exciting development opportunity for a Data Engineer to join our team! The role is being advertised as a B2 (HEO) to B1 (SEO) development role and is an exciting opportunity for candidates with a core understanding of Data Engineering who have a real aptitude and interest in developing their technical skills, along with their technical leadership skills.

You will be given training, mentoring and support to build your role specific skills by following a defined development plan. You will start on the B2 (HEO) salary (currently £34,369 - £36,045 pa) and once assessed as being competent in the role, you will be promoted to B1 (SEO) salary (currently £43,889 - £46,483 pa) – we anticipate this will be in the region of 1 to 2 years after starting in the role but will be governed by your development. You may also be entitled to a Recruitment and Retention Allowance of up to £10k on top of your basic salary.

The data engineering team at the UK Hydrographic Office focus on building data services and productionising analytics. Our data engineers organise as generalists to encourage sharing of projects, knowledge, and technical skills. The team is open and collaborative, working in an agile way to deliver projects. Continuous learning is supported along with sustainable working, which means you’ll have everything you need to grow your career.

We offer a great work / life balance. We’re all set up for working from home and encourage people to make use of this if they prefer. We’re committed to providing flexible options and reasonable accommodations and will work with you to meet your needs.

Find out more about what we do at the UKHO:

As a data engineer at the UKHO you will be responsible for feature development within projects delivered by data engineering and works with the team to design and deliver production quality data pipelines or services. This will include a mix of stakeholder engagement, prioritization of your own tasks, and building of appropriate solutions using technologies such distributed computing, serverless architectures and machine learning.

You will have the opportunity to take on a wide range of challenging and rewarding work, including:

• Designing, building, testing and deployment of features within production data pipelines and associated software systems.
• Evaluating technologies and leading exploratory tasks (spikes).
• Communicating project-level challenges or risks to the senior data engineers.
• Presenting work to the wider team and to stakeholders.
• Helping to set standards, coaching, and sharing knowledge with other data engineers.

The essential criteria are outlined in the selection process details.

Ideally you would also have the following experience, but this is a bonus rather than essential, and can be developed in role:

• History of supporting junior team members in their personal development.
• Capable of recognising technical debt and flagging it to the team.

SC – non reserved
This is a Ministry of Defence non-reserved post and although open to UK, British Commonwealth and European Economic Area nationals, successful applicants will require a security clearance (SC) and therefore need to have resided in the UK for a minimum of 12 consecutive months within the last 5 years.

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

• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together

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

• Data ingest and pipeline building (Test)
• Data storage and cataloguing (Test)
• Approach to delivering software (Test)
• Stakeholder engagement (Test)

Job contact :

Name :
recruitment.queries@ukho.gov.uk
Email :
recruitment.queries@ukho.gov.uk

Recruitment team :

Email :
recruitment.queries@ukho.gov.uk