Lead Data Engineer
| Posting date: | 29 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £72,664 to £89,995 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 June 2025 |
| Location: | NE98 1YX |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 406024/5 |
Summary
Does transforming the customer experience for millions of UK citizens sound interesting?
If so, this role may be perfect for you!
We are looking for highly experienced Lead Data Engineers with proven experience of working in a large-scale data driven organisation, leading design, build, test and deployment activities for data services that are focused on self-service and data quality.
DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support the most vulnerable people in our society.
DWP Digital creates digital services that almost everyone in the UK relies on at some point in their lives. We’re carrying out a once-in-a-generation digital transformation - a task of size and scale unmatched elsewhere.
If you enjoy collaborating with users and stakeholders to understand their needs and are looking for a data engineer role that is more than just coding, we’d love to hear from you. We can offer you opportunities to:
- Work with genuinely interesting use cases and data sources.
- Make a big difference to the lives of millions of vulnerable citizens.
- Shape our next gen platform capability, ways of working, and future direction of data exploitation.
Our team consists of data engineers, data scientists, digital performance analysts, testers, content designers, user researchers, and Power BI specialists.
DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth £195bn a year to support the most vulnerable people in our society.
DWP have big ambitions to become a data driven organisation through delivery of our data strategy. These are key roles leading our data engineering delivery in our Data & Analytic hub Data Platform Team, and, within our Health domain data team.
You will be responsible for providing technical direction for data engineering across our data architecture, ensuring we provide reliable, trusted, interoperable data to meet our user needs across DWP, in other government departments and with private sector partners. This includes providing technical patterns and guidance, building our data engineering capability and ensuring our data products and pipelines are built using the right techniques in how we ingest, prepare (through ETL processing), store and use data using the most appropriate method, eg - balancing low-code and cloud native loosely coupled components You will have lead accountability for business acceptance testing as migration to new platforms are rolled out.
As Lead Data Engineer you will be responsible for leading teams in collecting upstream user technical requirements that need to be implemented as part of platform migrations and configuration. You will also have line management responsibility for data engineers within the platform team, and will provide direction for data engineering across all our hub and domain aligned platform teams. You will work closely with teams across digital group and wider Data & Analytics, including our data practice, to ensure we adopt consistent approaches and provide continuous development for our data engineers.
You will be a key part of our technical leadership in data platforms within the Data & Analytics hub or Health domain spoke. Day to day you will provide data engineering leadership and direction for a number of digital and data experts who work in multi-disciplined agile teams.
Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. For further information, please see 'Selection process details'.
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