Senior Data (Product) Engineer

Do you have a background in data or software engineering, analysis or data science?, We are seeking a Senior Data (Product) Engineer to join our data platform team to help us deliver high-impact data products enabling better decisions, insights and services across the DVLA. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing data engineering projects, ensuring the efficient processing and management of data across the organization., This is a senior, hands-on role. You will get to develop and support more junior team members whilst working on a modern data platform, collaborating with engineering product teams delivering services and working closely with reporting teams and data scientists to help understand and optimise our digital services. You will help set direction and standards for data product engineering, ensuring that data products are well-designed, reliable, secure and aligned to user needs. While you will not be responsible for building or operating the underlying data platform, you will work in close partnership with platform teams to ensure data products are delivered efficiently and sustainably.,

• Design and leads on the implementation of data flows to connect operational systems for data storage, analytics and business intelligence applications
• Recognise opportunities to reuse existing data flows
• Build data products using streaming systems
• Optimise the code to ensure processes perform optimally
• Lead work on data modelling and storage approaches
• Operate the production data products you build
• Design and assure robust data models and integrations that meet standards, improve data quality, and enable reuse across teams
• Proactively find and address performance of data products
  
  The role requires good understanding of data modelling and processing but focuses on practical ability to implement the solutions using a range of technologies and languages (e.g. SQL, Python, Databricks, Apache Spark, Lakehouse and various RDBMS)., Disability Confident
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If you are a data enthusiast with a strong technical understanding and interest in engineering reliable and maintainable data products, we would love to hear from you. Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:
• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King's birthday
• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
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