Senior Data Engineer, N and I Business Operations

Role overview

Salary and allowance

• Salary is £49,850 for new Civil Service entrants in National roles.
• An additional non-pensionable allowance of up to £7,550 may be available, pending a Capability and Skills Assessment.
• The advert lists a Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%.

Contract and working pattern

• Contract type is permanent.
• Working pattern is full-time, with compressed hours available.

Location and working arrangements

• Listed locations are Glasgow, Salford, and Sheffield.
• Some roles may permit a mix of office and home working; where applicable, at least 60% of working time is in the office. The advert does not confirm whether this arrangement applies to this role.

FinOps responsibilities

• Support financial control of AWS and Azure expenditure, including allocation, budgeting, forecasting, invoicing, reconciliation, recharge, and chargeback.
• Investigate discrepancies with finance, commercial, supplier, cloud platform, and business teams.
• Ensure costs are traceable and correctly assigned to portfolios, programmes, and services.
• Improve management information, reports, dashboards, and financial process automation using financial and cloud consumption data.
• Strengthen financial governance and help stakeholders understand cloud usage and associated costs.

Data engineering overview in advert

• The general role description says Senior Data Engineers build and manage data flows connecting operational systems with analytics and BI systems.
• It also describes working with data science colleagues and product owners, contributing to technology and data architecture direction, and mentoring junior colleagues.

About Home Office Digital

Requirements

• Strong finance experience is the primary requirement for the Central FinOps role.
• Previous data engineering, cloud, or programming experience is not essential; relevant technical skills can be developed in the role.
• Able to work with financial and cloud consumption information to support accurate, traceable expenditure attribution.
• The advert states that some roles may allow a combination of office and home working, with at least 60% office attendance where applicable; applicability to this role is unclear.