Data Engineer in Bristol

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, ensuring maximum value to data consumers, including analysts, scientists, and business stakeholders.

At Made Tech, we want to positively impact the future of the country by using technology to improve society for everyone. We aim 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, you will play a hands-on role as a contributor to client projects, focusing on both delivering engineering work and upskilling members of the client team. You will also participate in our hiring process and continued development of the team, representing us both internally to the organisation and publicly via presentations. You’ll need to have a drive to deliver outcomes for users and a desire to mentor teams, sharing your knowledge and skills with others.

We look for the following skills and experience:

• 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
• 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, we are 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 won’t be able to progress your application.

We are always listening to our growing teams and evolving the benefits available to our people. We’ve 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. We’re 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:

• 30 days of paid annual leave
• Flexible parental leave options
• Remote working for part-time schedules
• Paid counselling as well as financial and legal advice

Made Tech is on a mission to use technology to improve society - for everyone. We help organisations transform, deliver and manage world-class digital products and services.