Cookies
We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue we'll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies on the Public Sector Resourcing website.
This job is no longer available
Platform Engineer (Inside IR35) | Ref: PIP0005218
Remote/Home | Technology | Start: ASAP | Duration: 4 months
Posted 2 years ago
Job description
Are you an experienced Platform Engineer looking for a new contract? Do you have strong experience with MS Azure / Microsoft Azure Data Bricks / Data Factory? If so PSR would like to speak to you about this opportunity with UKSHA.
As a Platform Engineer, your main responsibilities would be:
- Fulfilling activities relating to the Data Analytics and Reporting platform (EDGE) including the data operations (platform, pipeline, tool and script optimisation) the ingestion of new datasets, the provision of data into raw and curated marts for consumption by analytics and data science teams
- Performing Data Operations activities including automation of data pipeline and data egress monitoring, quality assurance controls, raising/resolving technical incidents across the EDGE team and with other departments. Plus arranging ad-hoc data loads.
- Conducting technical maintenance and delivering enhancements/optimisation to the platform, data pipelines, tools and scripts.
- Engaging with users, resolving incidents and clarifying user requirements for confirmed incident and change priorities.
- Developing, building and testing technical solutions (data and capabilities) adhering to Technical release standards.
- Operating activities independently, and as a functional team member or as a member of a Feature Team to confirm requirements, define, build and test solutions, with handover into operate mode
You’ll have relevant experience in:
- Strong background as a Platform Engineer or Senior Data Engineer
- Key technical skills: Python, Microsoft Azure SQL, Microsoft Azure Data Bricks, Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft Data Factory
- Strong demonstrable experience with MS Azure and Data Factory.
- Day to day work will primarily be: coding and setting up capabilities (10% relationship management and 90% technical work)
- Ability to quickly gain deep knowledge of the infrastructure, platform, tools and data in support of activities, team and EDGE users
- Passionate about data and creating data assets and capability.
- Able to operate in a fast changing and dynamic environment.
- Experience in operating with large volumes of data and quickly changing data on cloud infrastructure (ideally MS Azure).
- Strong collaborator with other data engineering teams to implement data engineering changes and improvement.
Desirable Qualifications/Skills:
- Previous public sector experience
If this Platform Engineer role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply and speak to one of our PSR team now.
"In applying for this role you acknowledge the following; this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment, and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different."
All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where stated otherwise.
© 2003 - 2024 NQC Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
