Senior Data Engineer
The Valuation Office Agency (VOA) are the public sector’s property valuation experts and advisers with a vision to be a world-leading provider of public sector valuations. Our work is vital to the collection of over £60 billion of revenue which goes back into communities, touching every citizen and every business across England and Wales.
We champion the values of professionalism, integrity, respect and innovation. We are committed to providing a collaborative and supportive working environment that encourages every colleague to contribute, grow and excel together. With opportunities to drive your own development and growth, we empower our colleagues to succeed by ensuring support at every step of their career journey.
Senior Data Engineer– Role Overview
Data is crucial to the VOA. It’s at the heart of what we do, the use of data is woven into the operation of the business through the analytical models used operationally. You will be joining at an exciting time with a fantastic opportunity to gain extensive experience in a broad range of activities.Our unit has a focus on learning & development. We have an open transparent culture based on collective responsibility and accountability. We support each other, we help each other, and we learn from each other.
This role sits within Data & Platform Engineering, a diverse multi-disciplinary team at the centre of VOA transformation supporting the recent launch of our new Valuations Operating System (VOS) alongside delivery of the NextGen Revaluations (NGR) programme.We have bold plans to unlock the value of data in the Valuation Office Agency, and you will be at the heart of this, contributing to the team’s vision to make the availability of quality data an assumption, not a concern.
Ideally, you’ll have a background in data engineering with a strong business focus. Or you’ll be someone be someone with experience of working with data and an aptitude for programming. We want to hear from people who:
- Have an insatiable curiosity and a drive to innovate and improve.
- Thrive in collaborative environments and enjoy working across boundaries to achieve a common goal.
- Have enthusiasm for what they do and want to make positive change.
- Actively support their team and help them develop and grow.
- Demonstrate the tenacity and pragmatism needed to see things through to completion.
As we are currently in the process of migrating over to a new technology stack, we can provide you with the opportunity to make your mark on data engineering in VOA and provide an excellent experience that’ll enhance your future career prospects and skills development.” Joe Frend, Head of Data & Platform Engineering.
Senior Data Engineer – Key responsibilities
You will be part of the Data Foundations unit within VOA, initially your work will be focussed in developing our priority data pipelines, critical for supporting our analytical products and functionality.
The typical ongoing activity of a senior data engineer could involve:
- Developing Azure Data Factory pipelines for the orchestration of data pipelines supporting the analytical community.
- As part of our initial ETL solution, co-ordinating the development of SQL scripts to ensure our datasets provide the Power BI community with the data they require.
- Collaborating with our analysts to identify new opportunities for our data to be used in advanced analytics to benefit the organisation.
- Developing the data engineering team to continue to build our capability.
- Establishing best data engineering practices.