Junior data engineer
Grade HEO
What data engineers do
A data engineer develops and constructs data products and services, and integrates them into systems and business processes.
Role responsibilities
As a Junior Data Engineer, you will be joining a team of talented data engineering professionals, who are committed to delivering high-impact and secure data solutions to achieve departmental and directorate objectives.
This role sits in Data Engineering Division. As a division, we provide a full range of engineering capabilities including data sourcing, management, operations, and maintenance of underlying infrastructure.
In the Department for Education you will:
- work in multi-disciplinary agile teams, supporting the continuous delivery and maintenance of high-performing data products
- collaborate with other data engineers, product owners, architects, data analysts, data scientists, and business users to understand requirements and to deliver solutions to meet those needs
- drive high data quality across the data products and services
- help build and maintain the data engineering community
Skills you need
It is essential that you can demonstrate the following experience in your application and at the interview:
- data development process. Some experience of building basic data processes to transform data into actionable insights
- agile working. Awareness of delivering data products in an agile delivery environment
- collaboration. Some experience of working alongside others to ensure the stability, robustness, and resilience of products you build
- programming and build. Some experience of programming in development environments using common programming languages
- problem resolution. Awareness of the types of common problems in data structures, process, and products
- data innovation. Understanding of business requirements and spotting opportunities to innovate. Willingness to step out of comfort zone and learn modern data engineering practices and trends
It is desirable if you can demonstrate the following:
- data quality. Awareness of data quality management techniques to ensure data is fit for purpose