Homes England Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
About the job
What we offer…
We understand how important life is outside of work so, as well as competitive salary and 33 days annual leave, we are totally committed to flexible working. We’ll support you, wherever possible, so that you don’t miss out on what truly matters to you.
If you do ever need a little bit of extra help we have a great employee assistance programme, financial well-being support and access to loads of great discounts with leading high street names.
Our range of network groups are also there to support you to truly be yourself at work and play a key role in helping shape our future.
If you are a member of a professional body we’ll pay for your membership and once you get your top of the range digital kit you’ll be good to go in one of our great offices.
A Bit About The Role…
The Data Engineer will play a critical role in the development of our Azure Data Platform. You will be joining our talented team of 15 Data professionals, who are committed to making positive change in how we make Homes England a 21st century Data-led organisation.
Our team is dedicated to delivering a first-class customer service, resolving technical and resourcing challenges informally and collaboratively wherever possible, taking an innovative and creative approach to project issues. We value diversity in experience and perspective to foster good decision making and problem solving within our team.
This is a rare chance to shape the future Data Engineering landscape in a fast growing, national organisation with real social purpose. Working with key stakeholders and a professional Digital Services team you will ensure efficient, consistent and effective resolution of engineering challenges and the have the opportunity to help create a first-class data platform for data practitioners across Homes England.
The role will support the design and delivery of key strategic projects around automated analytics and reporting. There are some exciting and ambitious projects to get involved with and this is an excellent opportunity to balance day to day delivery whilst bringing innovative solutions to the data offering.
For more information about the role, please visit: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/data-engineer
A Bit About You…
Whilst our day job is to deliver first class customer service to our stakeholders on the data analytics and reporting fronts you will always be looking for ways to improve and innovate.
You Will Be Proficient In a Host Of Azure Technologies Including Those Listed Below
You’ll be comfortable supporting the Azure data platform, aiming to deliver innovative data and reporting solutions.
- Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, ADLS or using an ETL tool such as FME, Alteryx or similar.
- Programming languages such as Python and Spark or similar.
- Azure DevOps functionalities like GIT Repo, IaC deployment process and automated CI/CD pipelines.
- Schema-less NoSQL databases such as Cosmos DB.
- SQL and relational data systems such as Azure SQL, Oracle, and SQL Server.
In addition, we are looking for the following skills and experience:
- Data visualisation using tools such as Power BI.
- Understanding of software design principles and Agile best practices.
- Ability to learn new technologies and methodologies quickly.
- Effective communication (both verbal and written) across teams within Digital Services and wider business.
Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn’t always easy. You will be resilient and comfortable managing stakeholders at a senior level and your discussions will always be shaped by a good understanding of the commercial and operational impact of what we do as a data team. You will enjoy working in an innovative, fun and engaging way and be able to negotiate and persuade.
As an experienced Digital professional, you’ll understand how to manage colleagues and be able to demonstrate you can work with others as part of a team in a collaborative, inclusive way.
Who are we?
We are the Government’s national housing agency. Our role is to accelerate the pace of house-building across the country, particularly in areas where there are the most serious affordability issues – meaning people are struggling to find homes.
We have the appetite, influence, expertise and resources to drive positive market change and meet the Government’s ambition to deliver 300,000 new homes a year. We are using our land, influence, funds and knowledge to increase the pace, scale and quality of new homes accelerating delivery in areas of greatest demand and helping create great places to live. Within the next few years, we will have invested over £27 billion across our programmes. To deliver against these aims we’re building a different kind of public service – join us to help make this happen.
We would encourage all applicants to apply as soon as possible as we may close vacancies early should we receive a high number of applications. We also encourage you to apply using the full application option as opposed to quick apply, this is especially important if you would like to indicate to us that you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme.
If your application is shortlisted to interview we will require you to provide proof of your right to work in the UK at that stage.
Homes England are a geographically diverse community. We are all hybrid working at the moment spending some of our time working from home and some based at our offices which are spread across England. The wellbeing of our colleagues remains one of our top priorities.
Please note that Homes England are currently consulting on a pay and grading review. We will share information with candidates about the outcome of this review and any impact that this may have on this role throughout the recruitment process.