Senior Data Engineer
Role Overview
Join Ofsted's Data and Insight team as an experienced technical professional in a small BI development team.
Develop and maintain databases, data marts and reporting systems, and respond to specific data requests.
The team's work supports inspection and regulation of education and care providers by making accurate, useful data available.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Join Ofsted's Data and Insight team as an experienced technical professional in a small BI development team.
Develop and maintain databases, data marts and reporting systems, and respond to specific data requests.
The team's work supports inspection and regulation of education and care providers by making accurate, useful data available.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain databases, data marts and reporting systems.
- Respond to requests for data and information that are not immediately available through another route.
- Ensure accurate, efficient and accessible data supports inspection and regulation.
- Support statistical and analytical colleagues with timely, straightforward-to-use data.
- Build stakeholder relationships, develop subject knowledge and influence colleagues and external suppliers.
- Coach and collaborate with data engineers and analysts.
Technical environment
- The development environment is predominantly Microsoft SQL Server.
- Power BI and Excel are used for reporting; SSMS and SSIS support data manipulation and ETL.
Technical skills assessed
- Experience designing, developing and testing medium- to large-scale database and ETL solutions for complex user needs, with substantial transformation and automation.
- Proactive problem-solving and troubleshooting experience in a data and technology environment.
- Experience coaching and supporting colleagues in a data and technology environment.
- Ability to explain technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Database capacity and performance management experience is listed as desirable.
Workplace and pattern
- Hybrid working is offered, with the option to work from home for part of the time.
- Locations listed are 23 Stephenson Street, Birmingham, and 2 Rivergate, Bristol.
- The posting lists full-time and part-time patterns; part-time is a minimum of 28 hours per week.
Salary and benefits
- Salary is £48,001 pro rata per annum, rising to £48,597 pro rata per annum after successful completion of probation.
- The Civil Service Pension has an employer contribution of 28.97%.
- Benefits include flexible working hours and 32.5 days of annual leave plus 8 bank holidays.
Role details
The role is permanent and one vacancy is available.
Behaviours assessed include Changing and Improving, Working Together, Delivering at Pace, and Managing a Quality Service.
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