About the job

Job summary

This is a rare chance to shape the future Data landscape in a fast growing, national organisation with real social purpose. Working within the Data and Analytics team you will ensure efficient, consistent, and effective resolution of engineering challenges, and help document and maintain the data processes and schema which underpin system and analysis right across Homes England.

Job description

You will be learning from the Senior Manager, but have significant autonomy to refine and improve existing PostgreSQL processes and functions, and to implement new solutions to improve efficiency or adaptability. You will also have the chance to learn and lead on the management, documentation and ingestion of data into the Data Science teams own data catalog, as part of the new analytical platform (using Databricks, Azure Dev Ops, Unity Catalog and Purview).  

 

As a Data Engineer you will also have opportunities to work alongside the engineering team developing our Azure Data Platform. You will be helping to grow our team of talented Data professionals, who are committed to making Homes England a Data-led organisation. To deliver this you will have opportunities to learn and utilise the latest tools and technologies such as Azure Databricks, Computer Vision and, Azure Machine Learning alongside languages such as PySpark and SQL.

 

You will work with data colleagues collaboratively, taking an innovative and creative approach to automated data, analytics and reporting. We value diversity in experience and perspective to foster good decision-making and problem solving within our team.

 

We are a team which prides itself on creating to space to learn. There are exciting and ambitious projects to get involved with and this is an excellent opportunity to balance day-to-day delivery whilst providing an environment to learn and stay up to date with current tools and technologies. For more information about the role, please visit: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/data-engineer 

Person specification

You are resilient, self-motivated and comfortable diving in to data environments and SQL code in particular. Your ideas will be shaped by a good understanding of how data drives and facilitates business delivery. You enjoy working in an innovative and engaging way while delivering high-quality data solutions.

 

You will be able to design, maintain, document and improve SQL processes and functions, to ensure the consistent and accurate flow of data between sources, and transform this data based on the requirements of the analysis and data teams. To deliver this you will be able to work with SQL code and associated tools (we use PostgreSQL database and PGAdmin), and be interested in our move toward cloud technologies (Azure) and new coding skills (Python).

 

The solutions we deliver should be reusable and scalable with a focus on consistency and maintainability. You will be able to review existing processes and improve them while thinking about resilience, efficiency and performance. As part of this you should have a desire to learn and explore new technologies.

 

As an experienced Digital professional, you’ll understand how to manage relationships with colleagues and be able to demonstrate you can work with others as part of a team in a collaborative, inclusive way.

Benefits

Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return we offer a range of excellent benefits, some of the key benefits include:

 

Holiday - Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.

 

Working Flexibly - At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours.

 

Health and Wellbeing - We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.

 

Professional Development - At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees.

 

We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.

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Selection process details

How to apply?

To apply please follow the links to our careers page.

 

Security

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

 

Selection process details

For more information on the role, please see the attached Job Description.

 

Successful applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application and interviews held as soon as practical after the closing date. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in this role and Homes England.

 

Please note – Homes England has a responsibility to ensure compliance with HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard to address the potential problems of identity fraud, illegal working and deception generally. To ensure compliance we will carry out a pre-employment Personal Identity and Vetting Report through Experian to meet the standard and you will therefore be asked to provide certain information in order that the verification check can be carried out if you are successful in your application.

 

Homes England are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates.  We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer that values and respects the people who work for us.  Our aim is to be an employer of choice, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.

 

Homes England is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. For further information please refer to our Privacy Notice which can be viewed here:

 

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/homes-england/about/personal-information-charter

 

 

Nationality requirements

Open to UK, Commonwealth and European Economic Area (EEA) and certain non EEA nationals. Further information on whether you are able to apply is available here.

 

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a guaranteed disability confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Further information

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

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.