Data Engineer

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Job Title: Data Engineer

Salary: £31,931 to £44,166 gross per annum (dependent on skills and experience)

Banding: UKRI Band D or E (dependent on skills and experience)

Location: Daresbury Laboratory- Warrington

Contract Type: Open-Ended

Hours: Full Time (We understand the importance of work-life balance, and are happy to discuss the possibility of flexible working with applicants)

About The Hartree Centre

At the Hartree Centre, we want to see UK businesses outperforming their global competitors. We want to grow the economy, create skilled jobs and train people to excel in them. Most of all, we want to keep the UK at the forefront of industrial innovation. We’re making all this happen and more by enabling UK industry to fully embrace and integrate the latest digital and cognitive technologies.

We provide collaborative research, innovation and development services that accelerate the application of high-performance computing (HPC), data analytics and artificial intelligence technologies. By working with us, businesses and research partners can gain a competitive advantage that enables them to produce better outcomes, products and services more quickly and cheaply than through conventional R&D.

We have a technically exciting computing environment, encompassing a wide range of hardware and software technologies.

Reasons Our Staff Enjoy Working For Us

• We’re based at Sci-Tech Daresbury - a lively and dynamic campus bringing together SMEs and leading industry-academic collaborations located in a picturesque semi-rural location with easy access to canal-side and woodland walking
• We are less than two miles from the M56 motorway with public transport links and access to Warrington and Runcorn national rail stations. Advice on all aspects of travel to site including car sharing is available at: https://www.sci-techdaresbury.com/the-campus/travel-hub/
• 30 days annual leave plus 10.5 public and privilege days
• Options for flexible or hybrid working patterns are available
• Defined benefit pension scheme (employer contribution – currently up to 26%)
• There are different active sport and social groups across campus with access to an on-site gym for staff
• Personal development is key. You will work with your line manager to develop your own Learning and Development plan each year
• We value collaborative working across STFC and with our external collaborators such as IBM Research, The University of Liverpool’s Virtual Engineering Centre, Atos, NVIDIA, Unilever and many more
• Diversity and inclusion are important to us. UKRI has a corporate policy on Equality and Diversity which is supported by a Diversity Forum and implementation group
• For more information on the rest of our employee benefits, take a look at: http://www.stfccareers.co.uk/why-join/rewards-and-benefits/.
  
  

About The Role

Data engineers are required to join the Hartree Centre, an innovative and multi-disciplinary Sci-Tech organisation, to work on leading-edge projects. Are you looking to use the very latest data frameworks, applications, and services in the cloud and on-premises in a role with career prospects, extensive benefits, and learning & development that is second to none? Then this is the job for you!

Hartree’s mission is to accelerate the adoption of cutting-edge computing to allow the organisations we work with to be innovators in their fields. We work across a diverse range of business and scientific domains and collaborate with SMEs, large enterprises, and universities to address their most pressing challenges. We are proud of the centre’s real-world economic and societal impact and you will join a culture that focusses on the worthwhile application of the latest technologies at scale. You will be supported by a friendly and collaborative culture, and while we are serious about results, our experience of getting there is enjoyable and fun. We are well-established, expanding and backed by UK government investment.

Responsibilities Include

• Building data pipelines and configuring & deploying technologies for dealing with data at scale
• Data analysis and synthesis, helping teams apply a range of techniques for data profiling
• Conducting exploratory analyses of data and developing ways of automatically preparing data for machine learning at high volume and velocity
• Writing well structured, tested, and maintainable code & DB scripts (e.g., PGSQL) in small agile teams
• Participating in code & technology reviews and presenting your work in knowledge exchange sessions
• Deploying and scaling apps and services using CI/CD and managing your work with VCS/DVC systems
• Creating high-quality data assets, documentation, reports, case studies, and web content
• Assisting our Business Development team to build new relationships and opportunities
• Assisting with use case analysis, story mapping, requirements capture, and project planning
• Supporting your colleagues by continuing to learn and grow.
  
  

We are looking for candidates with experience in some or all the following:

• A degree or equivalent in a computer-related discipline or applied discipline or domain
• A background in data engineering, data science or building data intensive apps in private, public or academic research sectors
• Experience in managing data, metadata and data repositories with various schema/definition files
• Experience of data stewardship, curation and creating data assets to FAIR principles
• Server-side development experience with at least one general purpose programming language (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Python, Go, C++/C#) and Infrastructure as Code in the cloud (IaC)
• Familiarity with Linux and managing processes & pipelines on the CLI
• Experience of batch & streaming data stacks such as K8s, Spark, Flink, Pulsar & Kafka would be an advantage
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with basic statistical analysis of data
• A genuine passion for data engineering and the transformative power of data to drive decision making, innovative business models, efficient public services and innovation.
  
  

About The Science And Technology Facilities Council (STFC)

As one of Europe’s largest research organisations, we ask the biggest questions in the universe to find answers that change the world around us. We seek understanding. We’re proud of the impact we make. And we’re committed to helping build a globally competitive, knowledge-based UK economy. Being part of all this means contributing to work that pushes boundaries and creates possibilities. You’ll work with, and learn from, true experts. Whatever your role, you’ll be free to question, and encouraged to share ideas. And, in a positive and supportive culture, you’ll discover just what a difference you can make when you’re equipped and inspired to excel.

We’re a place where curious minds thrive. Not bound by profit, we explore ideas that others don’t, ask questions that others won’t, and discover answers that others are not equipped to find. And, alongside Mars landings and black holes, we also explore diverse, international projects in everything from science and engineering to computing and technology. Whether it’s at the cutting edge or behind the scenes, our work is intellectually challenging. It’s very often ground-breaking. And it’s endlessly, irresistibly fascinating.

For more information about STFC please visit https://stfc.ukri.org/

You can also visit our careers site https://www.stfccareers.co.uk/

About UK Research Innovation (UKRI)

UKRI is an organisation that brings together the seven disciplinary research councils, Research England and Innovate UK. Together, we build an independent organisation with a strong voice and vision ensuring the UK maintains its world-leading position in research and innovation.

Supporting some of the world’s most exciting and challenging research projects, we develop and operate some of the most remarkable scientific facilities in the world. We are pushing the frontiers of human knowledge through fundamental research and delivering benefits for UK society and the economy through world-class research, skills and business-led innovation.

More information can be found at www.ukri.org.

Choosing to come to work at UKRI means that you will have access to a whole host of benefits from a defined benefit pension scheme, excellent holiday entitlement, access to employee shopping/travel discounts and salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme. For more details, visit benefits of working for UKRI.

How We Support EDI In The Workforce

At UKRI, we believe that everyone has a right to be treated with dignity and respect, and to be provided with equal opportunities to thrive and succeed in an environment that enables them to do so. We also value diversity of thought and experience within inclusive groups, organisations and the wider community. For further information, please visit ‘How we support EDI in the workforce’.

Disability Confident Employer

As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy/ies. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

How To Apply

Online applications only preferred for this role. Please submit a CV and covering letter which clearly outlines how you fulfil the criteria specified along with your motivation for UKRI and the role. Ensure that the job reference number is included in the filename description of each document uploaded. Note that failure to address the above criteria or submit an application without a covering letter may result in the application not being considered. Assessment will only be based upon the content of your submitted covering letter and CV and not the ‘experience’ section of the application.

UKRI seeks to ensure it creates and maintains a system of openness, fairness and inclusion – a collaborative, trusted environment, which is attractive to and accessible to everyone who is interested in developing their career with us.