Senior Data Modeller

OFGEM

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Reference number

376069

Salary

£45,614 - £62,699
National £45,614-£58,519 London £48,331-£62,699. Please ensure that you read the Pay and Reward information for civil service and internal colleagues before applying.
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Job grade

Grade 7
Level 2b

Contract type

Permanent

Type of role

Architecture and Data
Digital
Information Technology

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time

Number of jobs available

1

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Cardiff, Glasgow, London

Job summary

Join Ofgem’s Insight Data Architecture team within the Data & Digital function as a Senior Data Modeller and play a pivotal role in delivering organisation-wide insights. Your work will accelerate robust decision-making, drive consistency, and enable self-service across Ofgem.  

As a Senior Data Modeller, you will set the direction for designing, creating, and maintaining various metadata repositories, including data models (conceptual, logical, and physical), technical metadata (taxonomies/data dictionaries), and operational metadata (data lineage and transformation). You will also define physical table structures (e.g., DDL scripts) and semantic layers for business users (e.g., SQL views).  

We seek an analytical problem-solver who can produce scalable and flexible solutions for both operational and analytical use cases, such as transactional, streaming, data warehouse, or data science requirements. You will work as part of a cross-disciplinary team, confidently managing stakeholders, rationalising modelling decisions, and articulating best practice principles to both technical and non-technical service users.  

Data and analytics-driven insights are critical to Ofgem’s regulatory aspirations and vision. As a data modeller, you will play an essential role in codifying business concepts and processes into the organisation's data foundations.  

Your key responsibilities will include supporting the data team deliverables, leading the determination of data layer requirements, setting standards for data modelling and design tools, and collaborating with senior leadership to define data strategy. You will lead the development, validation, publishing, and maintenance of data models, create and develop Ofgem’s enterprise data model, and provide mentorship to other modelling practitioners. Additionally, you will design and maintain metadata repositories, define and manage data models using industry-standard tools, and support the development and evolution of data structures.  

You will ensure architectural and engineering concepts are embedded to design solutions that meet operational requirements, such as scalability, maintainability, security, reliability, and flexibility. You will also define, design, develop, and embed best practice data modelling standards into the wider architectural community.  

Join us at Ofgem and be part of a team that’s shaping the future of energy. Apply now and make a difference!  

Job description

Key Responsibilities 

  • To support the team deliverables, that utilise your expertise to ensure successful outcomes across team members and collaborating teams. 
  • Lead the determination of data layer requirements by analysing organisational and market needs and evaluating current systems.  
  • Sets standards for data modelling and design tools and techniques, advise on their application. 
  • Collaborate with senior leadership to define data strategy and ensure alignment with Ofgem’s Business goals. 
  • Lead the development, validation, publishing, and maintenance of conceptual, logical, and physical data models to support the data knowledge requirements of Ofgem. 
  • Lead on the creation and development of Ofgem’s enterprise data model. 
  • Provide mentorship to other modelling practitioners and guide them in best practices, modelling techniques and collaborative efforts. Validate Modelling activities across the organisation. 
  • Design and maintain metadata repositories enabling the organisation to find and understand their data assets.  
  • Define, manage and maintain data models using industry standard modelling and profiling tools and techniques across Ofgem’s disparate data streams.  
  • Support the development, integration, administration, and evolution of data structures, ensuring efficiency, scalability and quality. Continuously monitor to enhance performance and reduce latency. 
  • Maintain comprehensive documentation of models, standards and best practices for reference and future enhancements. 
  • Ensure architectural and engineering concepts are defined and embedded to design solutions that meets operational requirements, such as scalability, maintainability, security, reliability, extensibility, flexibility, availability and manageability.   
  • Define, design, develop and embed best practice data modelling standards into the wider architectural community.  

Key Outputs and Deliverables 

  • Lead the delivery of strategic assets i.e. Metadata Repositories’, Enterprise Logical Data Model (LDM), Logical, Conceptual and Physical data models, best practice guidance, data flow diagrams.  
  • Define and embed a consistent and coherent approach to data modelling throughout the organisation.  
  • Development of principles, approaches and solutions which enable data models to be understood and used directly by business users, enabling analytical self-serve within a set of ‘guard rails’.  
  • A culture that promotes data-driven decisions backed by robust and comprehensive models.  
  • Delivery of a central modelling ability to ensure quality, traceability, transparency, timeliness, usability and cost-effectiveness.  
  • Conduct peer reviews, develop optimisations and recommendations throughout the lifecycle of data product development from its logical design through to physical implementation and query layer consumption.   

Person specification

Essential Criteria

  • Strong experience developing OLAP data models. (Lead criteria) 
  • Strong experience of leading the evaluation development and maintenance of metadata repositories, logical data models, physical database structures and database queries according to best practice (expert knowledge of SQL required). (Lead criteria) 
  • Demonstrable experience using data modelling tools and industry standard techniques to capture and document data artefacts.  
  • Strong stakeholder management with the ability to translate complex business requirements into scalable, interoperable, and flexible data models. 
  • Ability to communicate in technical detail on topics of data lineage, data usage and data structures.  

Desirable Criteria

  • Track record of working within a cloud-based technology landscape.  
  • Experience in integrating complex, cross-organisation processes and data models, ideally within a highly regulated environment.  

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

  • Changing and Improving
  • Working Together
  • Delivering at Pace

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

  • Please refer to the Candidate Pack and Role Profile attached for full details.
Alongside your salary of £45,614, OFGEM contributes £13,214 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
Ofgem can offer you a comprehensive and competitive benefits package which includes; 30 days annual leave after 2 years; Excellent training and development opportunities; The opportunity to join the generous Civil Service pension which also includes a valuable range of benefits; Hybrid working (currently 1 day a week in the office but is in review), flexible working hours and family friendly policies. Plus lots of other benefits including clean and bright offices based centrally, engaged networks and teams and an opportunity to contribute to our ambitious and important targets of establishing a Net Zero energy system by 2050. This exciting blend of professional challenge and personal reward identifies career opportunities at Ofgem as something to get excited about.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

When you press the ‘Apply now’ button, you will be asked to complete personal details (not seen by the sift panel), your career history and qualifications.  

You will then be asked to provide a 1250 word ‘personal statement’ evidencing how you meet the essential and desirable skills and capabilities listed in the role profile. Please ensure you demonstrate clearly, within your supporting statement, how you meet each of the essential and desirable skills and capabilities. 

The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expect all candidates to abide by these principles. Ofgem take any incidences of cheating very seriously. Please ensure all examples provided are of your own experience. Any instances of plagiarism or other forms of cheating will be investigated and, if proven, the relevant applications will be withdrawn from the process. 



Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

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Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

  • UK nationals
  • nationals of the Republic of Ireland
  • nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
  • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
  • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
  • individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
  • Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
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Working for the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

  • Name : Jennifer Hughes
  • Email : recruitment@ofgem.gov.uk

Recruitment team

  • Email : recruitment@ofgem.gov.uk

Attachments

Candidate Pack_Senior Data Modeller Opens in new window (pdf, 1256kB)
Role Profile_Senior Data Modeller Opens in new window (pdf, 111kB)
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