Lead Engineer/Data Engineer in Darlington

This post is available on a full-time, part-time or job-share basis, and flexible working hours can be accommodated.

Location: London / Darlington

About the Team

The Data Hub is HM Treasury’s central data function and centre of excellence for sophisticated analytics and data management. Led by the Chief Data Officer of the Treasury, we work with partners inside and outside government. The Hub implements the Treasury’s data strategy by developing data capability and driving data-led transformation across the department. We provide strategic coordination and support to teams, using data tools and technologies on new and existing data sources. The Hub applies innovative methods to enable rich analysis and support departmental objectives. You will join a multidisciplinary team of data engineers, data scientists, and generalists who collaborate closely, value learning, and share knowledge.

Your duties encompass revealing data from systems, integrating data from multiple systems, and offering streaming services. Coordinate data products following HMT’s data strategy. Use your Python and cloud systems expertise. Produce data models using experience with a wide range of data engineering tools, where your understanding of industry-recognised data-modelling patterns helps you build, code, and test programs for data infrastructure development. Actively scope and undertake projects, including web app development and data engineering. Your innovative outlook will help you identify and take advantage of opportunities to ensure efficient and effective performance, influencing the data architecture in place. Promote guidelines in data engineering, including the acquisition, storage, and sharing of data for modelling and policy development. By providing overall technical leadership within the Hub, you will facilitate development opportunities across HMT in data and data science.

Support the expansion of the data platform by sharing work, pair programming, and proposing process improvements. As Principal Data Engineer, you will boost efficiency throughout the department by maintaining and advancing data engineering projects in response to user feedback. You will engage with a group of data specialists, aiding HMT through a broad range of projects, and uphold connections with customers both inside and outside HMT.

You will be maintaining and developing a variety of projects dedicated to data infrastructure. These products are used by a wide variety of HMT staff: improving them will help the department work more efficiently. You'll also work alongside data experts, providing support for a wide portfolio of projects at HMT, and hold relationships with customers within HMT and beyond.

You will have an extensive background in Python for data engineering and web application development as well as extensive expertise in SQL. You can demonstrate considerable experience with at least one major Cloud provider (Azure preferred, Google Cloud or AWS acceptable) and have also shown success in implementing a product and leading customer relationships, as well as the ability to act on feedback and apply good product management practices.

• 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King’s birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant).
• Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees to take up to an additional 2 days off each month.
• Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours).
• Generous parental and adoption leave packages.
• Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions of 28.97%.
• Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances.
• A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity.

If you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in the selection process, please tell us about this in your online application form, or speak to the recruitment team.