Senior Data Engineer
Birmingham, West Midlands (with hybrid working)
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Data Engineer to join our team Birmingham where you will a key role in our newly established Data Innovation Hub. You will play a leading role designing and building appropriate data architecture and pipelines to enable the Commission to obtain deeper insights about the gambling industry, understand risks to licensing objectives, and use data to deliver analytical products to policy and operational teams across the Commission.
As a Senior Data Engineer, you will coordinate with colleagues to create suitable data infrastructure to support the Commission’s vision to be an effective data-led regulator.
Your role will also involve:
- Guiding our procurement of core services to support our data work and input to the design of our systems and data architecture.
- Working with colleagues across the Commission to support their data requirements and assisting with data-related technical issues.
- Building required infrastructure for optimal extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) of data from various data sources using suitable technologies.
- Implementing data flows to connect operational systems, data for analytics and business intelligence (BI) systems.
- Identifying, designing and implementing internal process improvements including re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, optimising data delivery, and automating manual processes.
- Taking responsibility for meta data management, data modelling and testing.
This is a hybrid role, therefore there will be a requirement to attend our Birmingham Office.
- Experience of working with organisations at an early stage of building their data capacity and infrastructure, with a proven track record at helping organisations build their capacity to access data for a range of analytical projects.
- Excellent communication skills to translate actions and proposals across the wider business, along with the ability to explain the technical to non-technical audiences.
- Experience of working with tech suppliers to build data solutions and identifying the best solutions to meet business needs.
- Ability to build and optimise data sets, ‘big data’ data pipelines.
- Ability to build processes that support data transformation, data structures, dependency and metadata.
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems or another quantitative field.
Alongside your salary of £60,000, Gambling Commission contributes £16,200 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
- Salary of up to £60,000 per annum depending on skills and experience
- Civil service pension, with an employer contribution rate of 27%
- Flexible working
- Hybrid working, specific guidelines are to be agreed with line manager
- 26 days holiday, rising to 29 days after 2 years’ service, with the option to buy up to five days extra annual leave
Joining us means joining an organisation that is certified as a Great Place to Work, respects work-life balance, inclusive, and is completely dedicated to helping you achieve your full potential. Whether that’s through flexible working, really understanding how you work best or exposing you to real opportunities to challenge yourself, if you’re passionate about making your mark on the industry and on society, then we will help you do that.
The closing date for this role is 23 August. Please apply on our careers website.
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Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
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This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
- certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals
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Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
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