Senior ETL Developer (Data Engineer): Up to £62969, 27% pension contributions, and great benefits, flexible working + work life balance

Do you have a solid grasp of Data BI Visualisations SAP, Business Objects and Qlik?

Do you want to work on one of the biggest data stores in Europe?

Are you ready to be part of one of the most epic digital transformations of the 21st Century? Then look no further, we'd love to hear from you!

DWP. Digital with purpose.

This is an exciting opportunity for a talented and innovative ETL Developer to help us transform data management and data services.

You will join our thriving Data & Analytics practice, transforming data management and data services for DWP's critical projects and programmes,

We're a motivated community who are focused on delivering excellent customer service. We collaborate with our stakeholders to create innovative solutions in a diverse and large scale operation.

This is valuable work. Our team helps support and protect citizens and ensure they are supported. You'll work on colossal data-lakes transforming raw data into quality data-sets.

You'll provide technical leadership and stakeholder management skills and play a key part in driving a strategic solution and leading the transformation agenda.

You'll be versatile and adaptable employing varied project Management techniques and methodologies like Agile Waterfall or Kanban.The scope and scale of this data is wide and complex and you will have the opportunity to develop your skills and those of your team within this challenging environment.

What will I be doing?

• Lead the shaping of solutions, ensuring strategic fit, following the agreed principles and contribute to the continuous improvement of the Data Engineer Development lifecycle.
• Develop automated data ingest routines, complex workflows and mappings for structured and unstructured data, development of complex data products.
• Accountable for translating complex user requirements and Data models into effective, robust ETL solutions in line with build standards and ensure code is production ready.
• Responsible for the implementation and maintenance of ETL standards and for ensuring adherence by the wider community.
• Design, develop and unit-test mappings and workflows adhering to standards and practices.
• Ensure that reusable code is accessible and deployed for productionised ETL jobs.

What skills & experience we are looking for?

• You will have a strong technical background in SAP Data Services, UNIX and Business Objects.
• You will have a deep understanding of the technical aspects of analytical design and delivery, including traditional ETL processes, big data platforms and lake engineering, data management (quality, metadata), business intelligence tooling (eg Qlik, Business Objects) and how these fit into the wider technical landscape.
• You will be skilled at engaging with diverse range stakeholders and colleagues to foster collaboration, innovation, creativity and constructive challenge and will be adept at identifying, iterating and taking forward ideas that add slices of tangible business value.
• working knowledge and experience of SQL scripting preferably within a DB2 environment.
• Experience of Project Management methodologies (E.g Agile and Waterfall) and an ability to understand user stories/convert business requirements/data requests (from internal/external stakeholders) into technical data solutions.
• Aware of the need to translate technical concepts into non-technical language and understands what communication is required to internal and external stakeholders.

Where You'll Work

You'll join us in our easy-to-reach digital hub in Manchester.

Find out more here: https://careers.dwp.gov.uk/our-locations/

We also all have the tech and tools we need to enable our people to work flexibly and many of us are working remotely at the moment due to COVID-19.

We've just been shortlisted for a Best Place to Work in Digital Award: https://bit.ly/3lL7DJR

Details. Wages. Perks.

In return for your skills we offer competitive salary up to £40,666 per annum, a brilliant civil service pension, and a generous leave package.

We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

• Flexible working
• Family friendly policies
• Volunteering and charitable giving
• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
• Sports and social activities
• Learning and development tailored to your career as part of a brilliant cross-government Data community

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