Innovate UK has the following secondment opportunity available for employees of Innovate UK Business Connect:

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Data Engineer

A fantastic opportunity to join a leading company as a Data Engineer in a Data Engineering / Operations Team

*Please note this advert will close on the 5th February 2026 at 23.59pm.

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Title:Data Engineer

Band:UKRI Band D (UKRI Ts & Cs)

Salary:37841gross per annum

Reports to: Data Operations Manager

Location: Swindon (Hybrid Wokring)

Contract: Permanent

Innovate UK recognises the importance of work-life balance and we will be happy to discuss any requests for flexible working arrangements.

Job Purpose:

This role is critical for the Data engineering and operations team as it ensures continuity and responsiveness in BAU (Business-as-Usual) activities and resolutions while also enhancing the teams technical capability for proactive monitoring and issue resolution without impacting the project capacity.

As the data team continues to expand functionalities within Janus and integrate AI-driven features there is a growing need for in-house support with hands-on knowledge of BAU processes regular monitoring and resolution workflows on immediate basis without impacting key project capacity.

By establishing this Data Engineer position we aim to bring in a resource who can demonstrate a strong ability to quickly adapt to evolving requirements.

Their consistent contributions to Janus support will highlight their potential to take on broader responsibilities in all the areas in data operations data engineering activities. Over time this role will evolve into supporting AI-related initiatives aligning with the platforms growth and the wider data strategy including dashboard maintenance and BAU support across data platform teams.

Theres a real need to train and mentor junior and less established members of the team.

The role needs a resource that can bridge the gap between tech teams and senior stakeholders when solving critical Production issue.

We particularly welcome female applicants as women are under-represented within Innovate UK in this type of role.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• To lead/manage/coordinate ongoing P1/P2/P3 incidents Problems ongoing CRs triage and ensuring accurate updates of these tickets regularly.
• Ability to be able to engage with senior stakeholders by communicating issues and solving critical Production downtime issues within SLAs.
• To review CRs ensure necessary test docs attached chase/reassign tickets that needs closing updating etc. help in bridging knowledge gap between Innovate and Profusion.
• Use of Jira and Service Now to distribute tasks ownership manage resource assignments.
• Deep dive into Datawarehouse to answer light queries from non-technical business clientele.
• Search various systems/API logs for reported errors.
• Check Morning Dashboards for API System Services ETL various Report related errors.
• Experience with troubleshooting ETL process written in Python to provide support and to build. inhouse tool using Python programming to boost support productivity.
• Experience with the infrastructure deployment tool such as terraform to perform
• Candidate must have experience and capabilities of communicating between technical and no technical stakeholders wherever required

This is not an exhaustive list and you might be encouraged to undertake any other duties across the wider directorate commensurate with the Band and level of responsibility of this post for which the post holder has the key experience and/or training.

Shortlisting criteria

(S) Assessed at shortlisting

(I) Assessed at interview

(S&I) Assessed at both shortlisting and interview

Person Specification:

Experience & Qualifications:

Essential

• Excellent SQL experience on various platforms (SQL PostgresSQL Athena etc). (S&I)
• Excellent communication skills with cross team leads for requirement understanding and converting the requirement into technical. (S&I)
• Must be able to confidently develop the programs scripts as per requirements with little or no support from seniors (S&I)
• Development experience in Python Power BI and Data quality support (S&I)
• Excellent analytic skills associated with working on structured and unstructured datasets. (S&I)
• Good working knowledge of Power BI or similar reporting tool to provide support and to build reports that enhance support experience. (S&I)
• Must have knowledge of adhering to documentation standards as per underlying process in teamwork. (S&I)
• Build accessible data for analysis and identify data gaps and parity issues. (S&I)
• Must be able to advice and communicate gaps analysis to stakeholders confidently with defined reports and outcome and recommend viable solution wherever needed. (S&I)
• Develop business intelligence Power BI reports that can be reused for internal and consumer purpose for data insights. (S&I)
• Develop data flows for reports for analytics and business intelligence (BI) systems to enable scaling. (S&I)
• Clear understanding on source-to-target mappings (S&I)
• Support the build of data streaming and development / deployment pipelines on AWS Cloud (S&I)
• Able to develop ETL (extract transform load) scripts and code to ensure the ETL process performs optimally. (S&I)
• Able to write scripts and stored procedure. (S&I)
• Must have ability to take part in testing activities in various stages form data engineering and data visualization perspectives. (S&I)
• Develop business intelligence Power BI reports that can be reused for internal and consumer purpose for data insights. (S&I)
• Involved in reviewing decision-making activities based on historical data and past decisions and guiding the team to make the right decisions for recurring issues in accordance with best practices identified over time. (S&I)
• Must have capability for building design scripts development activities as per requirements. (S&I)
• Develop data flows for reports for analytics and business intelligence (BI) systems to enable scaling. (S&I)
• Clear understanding on source-to-target mappings (S&I)

Competencies:

All team members demonstrate compatibility with and capability against our Core Competencies such as:

Thinking and Problem Solving Stakeholder management Communication skills Influencing Self-awareness/self-management Strategic awareness Working with others Project management

Some of the above competencies will be assessed at interview stage in addition to the criterias listed in the person specification.

Travel Requirements:

Swindon-based: There may be the occasional requirement for national travel.

Equality Diversity and Inclusion:

Innovate UK is a diverse workforce of people. We believe that encouraging these differences and drawing the best from them will build a productive environment in which everyone feels valued where talents are fully utilised and in which organisational goals are met. Underpinning this is a belief that it is a fundamental right for everyone to be treated equally with fairness respect and dignity. We will act directly and use our influence to ensure that this right is promoted and upheld; we encourage applications from all those who meet the criteria set-out in our role profiles.

Equal Opportunities:

We are an equal opportunities employer committed to employing any person who meets the criteria for our roles. When undertaking recruitment we may require applicants to undertake certain tests or assessments some of which will be online and others may be in-person. If you have a disability heath condition or specific learning difficulty such as dyslexia then you may be entitled to support with undertaking this type of assessment exercise. Where you feel that reasonable adjustments are required to support you we ask that you advise your recruitment point of contact in a timely fashion providing further confidence Innovate UK will then review your application for adjustments and provide support as required.

UK Research and Innovation:

Innovate UK is partner organisation within UK Research and Innovation. If successful in securing the position your employer will be UK Research and Innovation. More information can be found online Benefits:

We offer a benefits package crafted to provide an excellent work/life balance. This includes 30 days annual leave 10.5 public and privilege days flexible working hours an exceptional defined benefit pension scheme and access to a variety of support networks and discount schemes.

Benefits of working at UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

Flexible Working:

We understand the importance of work-life balance and are happy to discuss the possibility of flexible working with applicants.

Pre-employment Screening:

To enable us to hire the very best people we will conduct a comprehensive pre-employment check on successful applicants as part of the recruitment process.

The role holder will be required to have the appropriate level of security screening/vetting required for the role. UKRI reserves the right to run or re-run security clearance as required during the course of employment.

UKRI supports research in areas that include animal health agriculture and food security and bioscience for health which includes research on animals genetic modification and stem cell research. Whilst you may not have direct involvement in this type of research you should consider how this aligns with your personal values or beliefs. To enable us to hire the very best people we will conduct a full and comprehensive pre-employment check as a crucial part of the recruitment process on all individuals that are offered a position with UKRI. This will include a security check and an extreme organisations affiliation check.

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