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Senior Data Engineer

Civil Service

Job Description

Job summary

This post is open to applicants who can meet the Colleges nationality, UK residency and vetting requirements.

About us:

Our mission is: Leadership, Standards, Performance. This guides our work with individuals, forces, and policing partners towards our vision. We exist to support police officers, police staff and volunteers to deliver the best service to the public. Only through high quality leadership, consistent standards and continual performance improvement can everyone in policing reach their full potential. Our mission guides our work with individual, forces and partners towards our vision.

Although we are a relatively small organisation, our work has a big reach. We are uniquely placed to work both with national policing organisations and local forces to support frontline officers, staff and volunteers in their day-to-day roles.

We offer a supportive and inclusive environment for people to thrive. Our extensive flexible-working policy, employee wellbeing support, family friendly policies, employers network for equality and inclusion membership (ENEI silver award winners), and status as a disability confident leader means everyone can bring their whole self to work.

Additional Information:

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

Due to our status as Public Servants, we are not eligible to participate in the Civil Service transfer process. Therefore, while successful candidates can transfer in on their existing terms and conditions, any subsequent transfer out of the College to the Civil Service cannot be guaranteed on existing terms and conditions, and new starter/modernised terms may apply.

The College embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we comply with the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) and apply the minimum selection criteria at sift stage of the recruitment process.

Our vetting

If you are successful at interview, you will be required to undertake pre-employment security checks. You will be sent a security questionnaire which must be accessed within 24 hours.

Please note, these checks can take up to 10 weeks. You will only be offered a start date after the checks have been completed. If the outcome of these checks is not satisfactory, your recommendation for employment will be withdrawn.

Job description

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will play a key role in delivering enterprise-grade data solutions that enable the College to make better use of its data. Working closely with technical teams, architects and senior stakeholders, you will design and implement scalable data pipelines, develop modern data platforms and help ensure data is accessible, trusted and reusable across the organisation. This is an exciting opportunity to shape how data is managed and used, supporting analytics, reporting and evidence-based decision-making while contributing to the College's wider digital and data transformation ambitions.

Person specification

Some of your responsibilities will include:

  • Designing and delivering scalable data pipelines and integration solutions
  • Improving data quality, automation and platform performance
  • Working with stakeholders to deliver secure, reliable and business-focused data solutions

To be successful in this role youll need:

  • Experience developing and supporting enterprise-scale data pipelines and platforms
  • Strong technical skills, including data integration technologies
  • Excellent problem-solving, communication and stakeholder management skills

Please see the attached job description which contains full details of the role.

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