Senior Data Engineer at Zaizi designing and operating modern data pipelines for the UK public sector. Collaborating with agile teams to enable effective data use and analytics.
Responsibilities
Design, build and operate modern data pipelines and analytics platforms for digital services across the UK public sector.
Work as part of multidisciplinary, agile teams to enable organisations to collect, process and use data effectively.
Apply sound data engineering practices rather than promoting any single technology or cloud provider.
Work independently on well-defined problems and exercise judgement in selecting appropriate tools and approaches.
Contribute to the continuous improvement of data platforms and ways of working in line with GDS standards, government data principles, and secure-by-design practices.
Requirements
Design, build and maintain reliable data pipelines to ingest, transform and serve data from multiple sources.
Develop analytics-ready data models that support reporting, operational insight and downstream analysis.
Support the full data lifecycle, including data retention, archiving and decommissioning, in line with data policy and statutory obligations.
Apply data quality, testing and monitoring practices to ensure data is trustworthy and fit for purpose.
Understand user and business needs and translate them into practical, well-engineered data solutions.
Contribute to shared data standards, documentation and data dictionaries.
Work collaboratively with delivery teams and customers to identify opportunities where better use of data can improve outcomes.
Strong commercial experience in building and operating data pipelines using modern data engineering patterns.
Strong SQL skills and experience with at least one programming language commonly used in data engineering (e.g. Python).
Experience with data integration, transformation and orchestration tools.
Designing and working with analytical data stores.
Applying software engineering and DevOps practices to data.
Working with cloud platforms, while remaining technology- and vendor-agnostic.
Using and contributing to open-source tools and frameworks.
Benefits
25 days paid holiday, plus bank holidays
Vitality medical insurance
Workplace Pension 5% employer contribution
Group Life Assurance
Cycle scheme
5 days a year for approved Training
WFH equipment allowance
Buy / Sell Holiday
2 days paid volunteering days
Flexible working
Work on exciting projects - make a difference
Empowered to make decisions
Encouraged to fail fast and learn quickly
1-2-1 and team coaching / training available to all our staff
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