Highway Information / Data Systems Engineer

It's an exciting time to join our Highways service as a Data Specialist!

Our vision for Staffordshire is an innovative, ambitious and sustainable county, where everyone has the opportunity to prosper, be healthy and happy.

Staffordshire has great places and great connections, boasting the beautiful rural landscape of a shire county together with excellent transport links to major destinations across the county. We are committed to fixing more roads, improving transport and digital connections and making significant investment into the quality of our roads.

To ensure we can deliver our ambitious Highway Transformation Programme and position ourselves as a best-in-class authority concerning data management, we are looking to grow our team of highway engineering professionals and develop talent for the future.

This role is hybrid, with the main base in Stafford.

It sits within Highway Information Management, a team within the wider Highway Maintenance & Network Management service area. The team consists of asset data technicians, traffic data officers and information engineers who are committed to creating and managing high-quality information which supports the wider highway service; and maintaining and improving the data systems which hold this information.Main Responsibilities

In this role you will:

• Build, improve and manage the CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system for Highways, working with key stakeholders to translate business requirements into reporting solutions; and troubleshoot issues using technical skills and critical thinking to ensure data accuracy for all users of the system.
• Use specialist skills to integrate data across the various in-house and external software systems ensuring high level of data reliability to support the duties of the highway authority.
• Create and implement various customised reports across a range of data systems to provide valuable insight to operational staff, senior management, members of the public and external stakeholders.
• Occasional day-to-day management of the team responsible for the local street gazetteer, core highway asset data, geographical information systems, collection and analysis of traffic data may also be required.The Ideal Candidate

You will have experience in:

• using application programming interfaces (API) to enable exchange of data between systems.
• using spatial information systems (e.g. GIS), MS Power BI and other MS365 products and knowledge of SQL, Python and ‘low-code’.
• designing, developing & implementing solutions in a CRM environment.
• developing and understanding process maps to identify dataflows and create effective solutions.
• supervising and/or managing a team.

If you are unsure whether your experience or qualifications are suitable, or you would like an informal chat about this role, please contact the Highway Information Manager: scott.denny@staffordshire.gov.uk

Interviews will be held on the 7 and 8 November 2024.

“We’re happy to talk flexible working”

Our Recruitment Process: We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered. Please complete your application fully, especially the supporting statement, to highlight what you’ll bring to the role.About Staffordshire County Council

We are no ordinary county council:

Our Values:

The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:

We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.

Our benefits:

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire

Our recruitment process:

As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities

As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.