Data Engineer - Newcastle upon Tyne
Data Engineer
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Pay up to £58,347, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.
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As a Data Engineer you'll be working within a high-performing team of engineers, developing data-centric solutions that positively impact millions of DWP users, helping them to find and use essential DWP services.
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DWP. Digital with Purpose.
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We are looking for a Data Engineer to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital.
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We're using fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives.
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DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work, and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people.
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The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.
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What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?
p>- Experience of developing, testing, maintaining, deploying and supporting efficient, scalable, automated ETL pipelines in an AWS cloud environment using AWS S3 Cloud Object Storage
- Strong coding skills using Hive SQL, Spark SQL, Python, PySpark and Bash
- Experience of working with a wide variety of structured and unstructured data. ul>
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You and your role
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As a Data Engineer at DWP, you'll be executing code across a full tech stack, including Azure, Databricks, PySpark and Pandas, helping the department to move towards a cloud computing environment, working with huge data sets as part of our DataWorks platform - a system that provides Universal Credit data to our Data Science team, helping improve our data security, integrity and cloud based technology.
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Details. Wages. Perks.
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Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Sheffield, whichever is most convenient for you.
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Hybrid Working:We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub.
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Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £58,347.
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Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £16,862 per year.
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Holidays:A generous leave package starting at 26 days and rising to 27 days after one year.
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You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays.
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We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
p>- An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100)
- Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies
- Time off volunteering and charitable giving
- Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
- Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
- Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
- Sports and social activities
- Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. ul>
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Process:
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We know your time is valuable so our application and selection process is just two stages:
p>- Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through.
- Interview: a single stage interview online. ol>
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