Our Data Engineers enable public sector organisations to embrace a data-driven approach by providing data platforms and services that are high-quality cost-efficient and tailored to the clients needs. They develop operate and maintain these services. They make sure they provide maximum value to data consumers including analysts scientists and business stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
At Made Tech we want to positively impact the future of the country by using technology to improve society for everyone. We want to empower the public sector to deliver and continuously improve digital services that are user-centric data-driven and freed from legacy technology. A key component of this is developing modern data systems and platforms that drive informed decision-making for our clients.
As a Data Engineer youll play a hands-on role as a contributor to client projects focusing on both delivering engineering work as well as upskilling members of the client team.
As a member of the data capability within Made Tech you will also participate in our hiring process and continued development of the team as well as representing us both internally to the organisation and publicly via presentations. Youll need to have a drive to deliver outcomes for users and have a desire to mentor teams.
You will need to be comfortable sharing your knowledge and skills with others. Maybe youve written some blog posts about your discipline or perhaps even delivered a talk or two that youd like to share.
Skills Knowledge & Expertise
We look for the following skills and experience. But if you dont have some of the skills and experience listed below dont let that stop you from applying!
- Working directly with clients and users
- Strong hands-on Python experience
- Designing and implementing efficient data transformation processes at scale in either batch or streaming use cases
- Contributing to the cloud infrastructure underpinning data systems through a DevOps approach
- Basic understanding of the possible architectures involved in modern data system design (e.g. warehouses lakes and meshes)
- Agile practices such as Scrum XP and/or Kanban
- Showcasing and presentation skills
- Evidence of self-development we value keen learners
- Empathy and people skills
Desirable experience
- Working at a technology consultancy
- Pair programming
- Working with data scientists to productionise advanced data deliverables such as machine learning models
- Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform Cloud Formation)
- Working knowledge of statistics
- Working with multidisciplinary digital and technology teams
- Working within the public sector
An increasing number of our customers are specifying a minimum of SC (security check) clearance in order to work on their projects. As a result were looking for all successful candidates for this role to have eligibility.
Eligibility for SC requires 5 years continuous UK residency and 5 year employment history (or back to full-time education). Please note that if at any point during the interview process it is apparent that you may not be eligible for SC we wont be able to progress your application and we will contact you to let you know why.
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We believe we can use tech to make public services better. We also believe this can happen best when our own team represents the society that actually uses the services we work on. Were collectively continuing to grow a culture that is happy healthy safe and inspiring for people of all backgrounds and experiences so we encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply for roles with us.
When you apply well put you in touch with a talent partner who can help with any needs or adjustments we may need to make to help with your application. This includes alternative formats for documents the time allotted for interviews and any other needs. We also welcome any feedback on how we can improve the experience for future candidates.
Job Benefits
Like many organisations we use Slack to foster a sense of community and connection. As well as special interest groups such as music food and pets we also have 10 Slack channels dedicated to specific communities allies and identities as well as dedicated learning spaces called communities of practice (COPs). If youd like to speak to someone from one of these groups about their experience as an employee please do let a member of the Made Tech talent team know.
Benefits
We are always listening to our growing teams and evolving the benefits available to our people. As we scale as do our benefits and we are scaling quickly. Weve recently introduced a flexible benefit platform which includes a Smart Tech scheme Cycle to work scheme and an individual benefits allowance which you can invest in a Health care cash plan or Pension plan. Were also big on connection and have an optional social and wellbeing calendar of events for all employees to join should they choose to.
Here are some of our most popular benefits listed below: