Data Engineer
Pensions Regulator
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Role Title: Data Engineer
TPR Grade & Pay Group: TDD 8 – Specialist
Reporting to: Data Engineering Solutions Lead
Directorate: Digital, Data & Technology
Starting Salary: Salary between £51,744 and £66,116 per annum (including 10% market premia) dependent on skills and experience, plus excellent benefits package
Contract: Permanent
Location: Brighton/hybrid (6 days per month in the office)
Closing Date: 07 November 2024
Job description
About us
More than half the UK working population rely on The Pensions Regulator (TPR) to regulate their retirement savings. With a career at TPR, you’ll be joining an organisation that will impact on millions of lives for decades to come.
Everyone at TPR plays an important role in helping to keep more than £2 trillion of savings safe. We’re committed to bringing people into TPR who are ready to make a difference and put UK savers at the heart of what we do.
It is important to us that TPR remains a great place to work. We do all we can to help our people reach their full potential with learning, secondment, and development opportunities. We put our 900+ employees first, supporting flexible working and offer a diverse, lively, and inclusive environment. This includes our Disability Network, Family Network, LGBT+ Network (Proud), Minority Ethnic (ME) Network and Women’s Network, which offer spaces to connect.
Our new corporate strategy outlines a bold and challenging vision of how pensions regulation should evolve to keep pace with a change in the scale and nature of the industry. We are at the start of that journey. Join us to find out what part you can play.
We operate a hybrid working model, subject to government guidelines, where regular attendance in our Brighton office is required. Attendance in the office is team and role dependent.
Role
Who we are:
The Pensions Regulator’s Data Services Team is growing in size and capability. It includes several teams comprising over 27 data specialists, in domains across the full spectrum of data management activity.
The Team has accountability for the data estate and is responsible for defining, developing and implementing the organisation’s approach to data acquisition, data management, analysis, and governance of data and information assets.
The Team also holds the vision for driving TPR towards becoming more data informed, by facilitating effective use and innovative exploitation of high-quality data and promoting data as a strategic business asset. We're data-informed, not data-driven: we work with engineers, product managers, and other disciplines to understand how data can best support the needs of the organisation.
We are on a fast-paced journey, and in recent years TPR has been through significant technological and business change, including having fully migrated to Microsoft Azure. As part of this new systems, including an enterprise-scale Azure data platform and engineering capability, have been established.
This is an exciting time to join our growing team and play a key role in our continuing journey of data-led design transformation, making data the key enabler in our mission to put the saver at the heart of everything we do.
The role:
As an organisation, we are shifting towards more innovative, data-driven regulation. That means increasingly we rely on drawing a compelling picture from the data we hold to help guide our decisions.
We have laid down the foundations of a modern data architecture within the Microsoft Cloud (Azure) and need a skilled data engineer to support our on-going innovation and development. Joining at this exciting stage in our growth, you’ll play a vital part in shaping the future of the platform and the data engineering competency at TPR.
The platform uses a myriad of data storage and transformation technologies including Azure SQL, Synapse, Datalake, CosmosDB, Azure Data Factory, Azure Functions, Databricks and PowerBI.
Embracing Agile methodologies, automated processes, and DevOps practices, we are hoping to continue to build modern data services and a mature data engineering team that delivers for both the organisation, and savers, for years to come.
We will help to grow and develop your skills in order for you to become an expert on the Azure data platform. We will support your professional development by giving you the tools and exposure required to upskill at pace, set against a very varied backdrop of green-field and BAU/lights-on data engineering / software development opportunities.
Responsibilities
You will:
- Work with business users and product owner to translate user stories into technical delivery.
- Be a hands-on data engineer across the suite of Azure services compiling the TPR’s Data Platform.
- Build scalable and cost-efficient solutions using Azure data technologies, adhering to best practices and agile processes to the highest possible standards.
- Stay up to date on evolving technologies, ensure TPR’s data platform and the data engineering team remain current.
- Ensure that the platform adheres to TPR’s data governance and compliance policies.
- Support of operational processes and end users, implementing monitoring and alerting practices to ensure service reliability.
Person specification
Essential and Desirable Criteria
Essential:
- Understanding of cloud data platforms and data storage technologies (ideally Azure).
- Demonstrable hands-on Data Engineering development experience.
- Excellent SQL skills at both a functional and non-functional level.
- Understanding of data integration and workflow applications (ideally Azure Data Factory).
- Understanding of Agile working methodologies.
- Use of a branch-based source control.
Desirable:
- Python, Spark, C#, or other relevant programming skills.
- PowerBI, Business objects or similar tools.
Person Specification
- Proactive and flexible
- Ability to prioritise and use initiative
- Problem solving and analytical skills
- Communication skills at all levels
- Attention to detail and accuracy
Benefits
Salary and benefits
As well as a salary between £51,744 and £66,116, we offer:
- Civil Service Pension arrangements, which are recognised as some of the best in the pensions world
- discretionary bonus arrangements
- access to performance related pay progression
- 25 days annual leave provision
- flexible working arrangements
- development opportunities
- enhanced parental leave arrangements
- a free employee assistance programme
- an excellent office location in Brighton.
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Selection process details
How to apply
To apply please email recruitmentteam@tpr.gov.uk quoting role reference number 207643 along with:
- a covering letter with details of how your skills and experience meet the role requirements
- a copy of your CV
- details of your notice period
Current employees in their first 12 months of employment who want to apply for this vacancy should first contact their line manager to discuss their application.
We are an inclusive employer and offer equal opportunities regardless of an individual’s age, disability, gender identity, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to the recruitment, employment, retention, and development of people with disabilities, and to improving their employment opportunities. Candidates who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the job will be offered an interview.
Applications will be considered on a part time and job share basis.
Please be aware, as we work within a hybrid environment, unless specified we will be holding interviews through Microsoft Teams for the foreseeable future.
In accordance with Home Office guidance, the successful candidate will be required to provide their right to work in the UK before they start employment. Unfortunately, TPR is not able to offer sponsorship at the time. TPR is a UK-based organisation with a working location in Brighton, candidates must live in the UK to be employed by us.
The Pensions Regulator is an arm’s length government body and part of the public service.
Any offer of employment will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory background screening checks and criminal record checks (BPSS).
Whilst it is our aim to respond to all applicants, if you have not heard from us within 21 days of the advert closing, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion. Specific feedback will only be provided if you have attended an interview or assessment.
If you have any queries about this role, or if you have a disability and wish to request a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please email recruitmentteam@tpr.gov.uk
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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- Name : recruitmentteam@tpr.gov.uk
- Email : recruitmentteam@tpr.gov.uk
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