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Job summary

Data Engineer

Data Transfer Programme (DTP)

Bristol

£51,846 - £56,662

Fixed term for 12 months

 

About us

 

The Office for Students (OfS) is the independent regulator of higher education in England – we regulate higher education on behalf of all students.  Our mission is to ensure that every student, whatever their background, has a fulfilling experience of higher education that enriches their lives and careers.

 

We’re proud of our people, our culture, and the benefits we offer. At the OfS we want to create a welcoming and engaging working environment which is free from discrimination.

 

We’re looking for skilled, committed people who care about students and their experience of higher education. Join us and you’ll be part of an energetic, forward-looking organisation with high ambitions and big opportunities for our people.

 

The OfS is on its way to become a cloud native organisation and data is our next stop on that journey. We are moving forwards with the latest tools in Azure and M365, utilising Databricks, Unity Catalog, Power BI, Data Factory, Purview and more.

 

If you want to be working on the latest cloud tools, with the training to unleash them, in a supportive team and environment, our team has it all!

Job description

About the role

 

The DTP Data Engineer will get stuck in with the modern data tools specified above from day 1 to deliver various projects and activities in your capacity as a Data Engineer.

Key responsibilities include:  

 

• Working with other data teams in the organisation to understand their needs and translate this into a working solution.
• Enhance our cloud data model with the principles of single source of truth.
• Showcase new ways of solving problems that are presented to you by yours peers.
• Develop and maintain our existing cloud data platform(s) to continue delivering our business-as-usual activity.

Person specification

About you

 

The key person attributes to fulfil this role are:   

• Experience with Python and Spark.
• Knowledge of best practice in data engineering across a large and complex data model, and ability to develop high quality, testable code to meet the user’s needs. 
• Experience of working in Data Engineering (or a similar data role)  
• Experience of maintaining data assets and associated documentation.
• Ability to maintain a comprehensive and sophisticated knowledge of the OfS’s data and technology. 
• Ability to communicate challenges, ideas and processes to internal and external technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with source control.

 

This is an agile working role, which means the role-holder will be expected to operate and work flexibly across different activities commensurate with this pay band, including undertaking project work to support different components of the DTP or of the OfS’s data functions.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £51,846, Office for Students contributes £14,050 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

Working for us

 

The OfS regulates the higher education sector on behalf of all students. We value diversity and the wealth of perspectives, experience and ideas that it brings to our work, and we strive to embed equality of opportunity in everything we do.

 

We recruit based on fair and open competition and welcome applications from candidates regardless of age, disability, race and ethnicity, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.

 

Flexibility is important to the OfS, as we recognise that it can enable people to work more effectively. A set of organisation-wide principles shape our approach to flexible and hybrid working, which our teams then use as guidance on how they deliver their business goals. This would usually mean working from the office for two or three days in a typical week.

 

To attract the widest possible field of qualified applicants, flexible working, for example job share and part time working, apply to this role.

 

Closing date for applications: 7 May 2024

Interviews will be from 13 May 2027

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

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Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). 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.