Description
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the UK's largest producer of official statistics, covering a range of key economic, social and demographic topics. We have exciting data engineering opportunities to work in various ONS directorates.
We're looking for an enthusiastic and collaborative team player who combines technical capability with a proactive, positive approach. You'll be organised, enjoy working with others and take pride in delivering high-quality work, with the curiosity and ambition to keep developing your skills.
What You'll Do
As a data engineer in the ONS, you will:
- Use tools across our tech-stacks, such as Python, PySpark, SQL, Google Cloud, Cloudera Data Platform.
- Work as part of an agile multidisciplinary team to design, develop and deliver end-to-end data solutions, such as repeatable data pipelines.
- Review and feedback on requirements and design specifications for data solutions.
- Write code to systemise the processing of data based on initial design documents, applying different testing techniques to ensure code and data quality.
- Re-engineer manual data flows to enable scaling and repeatable use.
- Use data engineering standards to refactor & improve existing code.
- Perform code reviews for your colleagues and provide effective feedback.
- Running, monitoring and quality assuring production pipelines and outputs running in ONS data platforms.
- Develop and maintain technical system documentation for processing pipelines, and documentation to support operational delivery and knowledge sharing.
- Collaborate with colleagues to share knowledge, provide mutual support, and brainstorm problems to identify opportunities for innovation, and improve ways of working.
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £34,587, Office for National Statistics contributes £10,019 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. The Office for National Statistics is part of the Civil Service, and as such we share a number of key benefits with other departments, whilst also having our own unique offerings to support our valued colleagues across the organisation.