Senior Data Engineer, N and I Business Operations

Role overview

Financial management responsibilities

• Support financial management and control of significant AWS and Azure expenditure.
• Manage cost allocation, budgeting and forecasting, invoicing, reconciliation, recharge, and chargeback.
• Investigate discrepancies and coordinate with finance, commercial, supplier, cloud platform, and business teams to ensure costs are accurate, traceable, and correctly attributed.
• Use financial and cloud-consumption data to improve management information, reporting, and dashboards.
• Improve automated financial processes and strengthen financial governance, transparency, and accountability.
• Help stakeholders understand cloud consumption and associated costs.

Data engineering responsibilities

• Identify, build, modify, and manage data flows between complex systems using appropriate solutions.
• Work with the Data Science community and Product Owners to identify service strategies that support business needs.
• Help set the direction of service technology and data architecture with the Data Engineering community.
• Mentor junior colleagues, promote collaboration and constructive challenge, and encourage agile working.
• Analyse problems and experiment with possible solutions to find underlying causes.

Person specification

• Strong finance experience is the primary requirement.
• Previous data engineering, cloud, or programming experience is not essential; relevant technical skills can be developed in the role.

Salary and benefits

• The salary is £49,850, the minimum for new entrants to the Civil Service on the National salary band.
• An additional non-pensionable allowance of up to £7,550 may be available following a Capability and Skills Assessment.
• The Civil Service Pension has an employer contribution of 28.97%.

Contract and working pattern

• The contract is permanent and full-time; compressed hours are also available.

Location and workplace

• Locations listed are Glasgow, Salford, and Sheffield.
• Where business needs allow, some roles may combine office and home working, with at least 60% of working time in the office.

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