Job details

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department, it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. As such, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives.

Working with DWP, you will be helping us to drive our priorities to:

• Run an effective welfare system that enables people to achieve financial independence by providing assistance and guidance into employment
• Increase saving for, and security in later life
• Create a fair and affordable welfare system which improves the life chances of children
• Deliver outstanding services to our customers and claimants
• Deliver efficiently: transform the way we deliver our services to reduce costs and increase productivity

As a Data Engineer your main responsibilities will be: 

• Translate business requirements to ensure they are clear and robust and can be transformed into reusable production ready code and / or effective data models.
• Define version control mechanisms and strategies for the source code of products.
• Support Quality Assurance colleagues and Data Managers responsible for the day-to-day testing and live running of data products and services.
• Shape solutions in a fit for purpose way; following the agreed principles and contribute to the overall Data Engineer Development lifecycle.
• Perform data profiling and quality measurements.
• Designing and developing reusable metadata libraries.

You’ll have relevant experience in:

• Strong experience of programming languages
• Python
• Pyspark
• SQL (Hive SQL/Spark SQL)
• Bash
• Hue
• GitHub/Lab (*Version Controls),
• Azkaban (or similar scheduling tools)
• CI/CD (*Concourse or similar)
• R-Studio
• Juypter-Lab
• Kafka

If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with rishon.reid@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk

Disability confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, DWP guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

If you qualify for the above, please notify us on PSRapplications@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk.

We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

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.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.