Lead Data Engineer

Job summary

Lead Data Engineer

The IPO is a modern organisation which depends on its IT services to operate and innovate effectively. To provide up to date services to our customers both nationally and internationally systems need to be developed, improved and maintained.

You will work within a multi-disciplined team using several technologies to build enterprise grade services as well as mentoring and coaching team members. You will be expected to be proactive and take accountability for the teams assigned deliverables. The role will also require the investigation, diagnosis and fix of any system issues.

A Lead Data Engineer is expected to contribute to the technical strategy for the department. Formal line management duties also form the key duties of this role.

• Inspire best practice for data engineering products and services within your teams and across the organisation.
• Lead the further development of data engineering capability by providing technical leadership and career development for your teams and across the organisation.
• Work with other senior team members to advise on, identify, plan, develop and deliver data engineering services.
• Work with Data Architects to help define Data Models, Structures and Solutions for complex systems.

Working Style

This role will be carried out in-line with IPO Hybrid working arrangements where staff are currently expected to spend at least 20% of their time working onsite from one of our offices. This role is based in our NewportOffice.

The requirement for attendance at an office location can vary by role so we would encourage candidates to discuss working arrangements with the recruiting manager to agree a reasonable balance between working from home and the office.

Job description

Main duties consist of but are not limited to:

A Lead Data Engineer is expected to contribute to the technical strategy for the department. Formal line management duties also form the key duties of this role.

A Lead Data Engineer leads the data engineering team to deliver robust data engineering services for the IPO. At this level, you will:

• Inspire best practice for data engineering products and services within your teams and across the organisation.
• Lead the further development of data engineering capability by providing technical leadership and career development for your teams and across the organisation.
• Work with other senior team members to advise on, identify, plan, develop and deliver data engineering services.

• Supporting the large-scale programmes of work, leading on providing guidance and assurance for data engineering work delivered by the project teams.
• Leading the development of a world class Data Engineering capability for the IPO.
• Working closely with IPO project teams and 3rd parties, leading solutions that ensure that data pipelines work effectively and efficiently.
• Understanding data pipeline problems and new requirements, leading the delivery of solutions appropriate to business and technical needs.
• Providing key influence on behalf of the CDO across groups, projects, and products.
• Formulate tactical plans that facilitate the data engineering aspects of the data strategy roadmap.
• Work with the Transformation Programme and Data Management Team to prioritise enhancements, develop and execute plans that utilise the current toolkit and the skills of the team to deliver these.
• Empower and lead Data Engineers responsible for architecting IPO data pipelines, owning the data engineering roadmap.
• Engage with senior stakeholders regularly to build relationships and understand the high-level transformation drivers of key IPO user groups to ensure prioritisation and design decisions are made in line with business priorities.
• Providing strategic influence across groups, projects, and products to implement cost effective technology solutions to solve complex business problems.

Behavioural

• Supporting the vision for the organisation’s use of data in line with the IPO’s corporate goals and vision.
• Understanding yourself to be a leader (and the impact of your behaviour on others in a project team focused on results)
• Work alongside the Head of Digital Engineering to support staff, provide guidance and facilitate issue resolution on a day to day basis
• Day-to-day line management activities such as 1-2-1s and development of IDPs
• Support in the recruitment of permanent and contract technical specialists for delivery
• Engaging Stakeholders (for mutually beneficial collaborative relationships outside of the team)
• Share knowledge and expertise with your wider team, becoming a role model within the organisation, champion our culture of learning, development, cross-company collaboration and teamwork
• Work across several multi-disciplinary teams to deliver highly focused and successful digital services
• Provide project / delivery management support when required
• Effective management and delegation of tasks within the team
• Embrace a continuous improvement ethos
• Applies “progress over perfection” principle
• Take full responsibility for decisions and deliveries
• Maintain inner composure, recovering quickly from setbacks and learning from the experience
• Highly driven and inspires others to make continual progress

Personaland Team Development

• Drive your own training and self-development, keeping skills up to date and learning new skills
• Take responsibility for ensuring that the team test and build activities follow agreed governance and processes
• Promote and display the IPO and Civil Service Values
• Guides more junior members in their personal development
• Coach and mentor colleagues
• Continuously improves technical knowledge and stays abreast of latest trends

Person specification

Essential Technical

• Experience of Azure Data Factory (ADF), Data Bricks, Python and other data tooling
• Experience of cleansing, preparing and formatting data sets.
• Extensive Experience of Azure SQL or other databases
• Evidence an ability to design, code, test, correct and document complex data pipeline scripts.
• Extensive experience of extracting, transforming and loading data sets for example using SSIS packages
• Awareness of designing scalable solutions and future-proof data services.

Essential Experience

• Has been a key player in delivering technical solutions as part of large projects
• Experienced with modern delivery models such as Scrum and other Agile
• Advocate of DevOps principles
• Experience with Azure DevOps

How to Apply

Click the 'Applynow' button and complete the application form by providing the following:

• Your CV
• Upload an anonymised copy of your current CV. Please remove all identifying markers such as name, title, education institution etc.

Make sure it clearly shows how you meet the essential criteria listed in the Person Specification.

If you require job-specific information, please contact Dominic Read
E-mail: Dominic.Read@ipo.gov.uk
Telephone: 01633 433189

Behaviours

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

• Leadership
• Developing Self and Others
• Working Together
• Changing and Improving

Technical skills

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

• Via a presentation and Technical questions during the interview. The presentation will be included in the scoring for technical.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £66,162, Intellectual Property Office contributes £19,167 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Unlimited Pluralsight video learning access
• Access to Microsoft’s ESI training suite
• Hybrid working with no core hours
• Substantial support for career progression
• 25 days annual leave moving to 30 days in annual increments
• You will also get 8 days public leave and 1 day privilege leave

For more information about what’s on offer at the Intellectual Property Office please review our IPO benefit pack attached to the bottom of this advert.

Please note that benefits may be subject to change.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

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

Additional details on security and vetting

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check and if successful you must also hold, or be willing to obtain, a higher Security Clearance.

For meaningful checks to be carried out individuals will need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time, depending on the level of clearance, to enable appropriate checks to be carried out and produce a result which provides the required level of assurance. For this role the successful individual will need to have consistently lived in the UK for a minimum 5 years in order to meet the relevant security clearance.

Further information on the vetting process can be found at National security vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK

If you have questions regarding this or are unsure if you meet the eligibility criteria, please contact Recruitment@ipo.gov.uk

The assessment process will comprise of the following:

Stage 1 – Sift

An initial sift of applications will be carried out to create a shortlist. This will be based on the evidence provided for the following Success Profile elements:

Experience

Your CV will be used to assess your suitability for the role.

Stage 2 – Interviews

If invited to interview Behaviours and Technical based questioning will be used.

• Please note candidates that proceed to the interview stage will be required to deliver a presentation against the Technical Success Profile. Further details will be provided in the invite to interview information.

Specific information regarding the Success Profile elements that will be assessed at interview will be contained within the interview invitation.

Interviews for this role will be carried out virtually via Microsoft Teams (video).

This recruitment campaign will keep a reserve list for 12 months. If you meet the requirements for this role but aren't offered after passing the interview, you'll be placed on the reserve list. If a suitable position opens up during this time, we will reach out to individuals in merit order.

The successful candidate would be expected to remain in the role for a minimum of 12 months before applying for another role.

Applicants to note: CVs sent direct to the IPO will not be accepted.

There may be important information contained within the job role profile candidates may also wish to refer to. We recommend candidates download and save a copy of the role profile for reference.

This post is being advertised to Internal, acrossGovernment and external candidates at the same time.

Incomplete and/or late submissions will not be accepted or considered. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

We do not routinely reimburse travel expenses for candidates, however if participating in the selection process would cause you undue financial hardship or if it restricts your ability to participate, please contact the recruitment team for more information.

In line with Government guidance, successfully appointed candidates will need to provide documents for our Right to Work checks. Information on this will be sent within the invite to interview text.

If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, then please let the recruitment team know viarecruitment@ipo.gov.uk

Please be aware that only one application per candidate is permitted for each recruitment campaign. Multiple applications, including those made using different accounts, may result in your application being withdrawn or rejected at any stage of the process.

For more information on the IPO’s terms and conditions, please review the attached IPO Modernised Terms and Conditions document attached at the bottom of this advert.

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).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

Open to UK nationals only.

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

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 theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

Apply and further information

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : IPO Recruitment team
• Email : recruitment@ipo.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : recruitment@ipo.gov.uk

Further information

Commissioners Statement
The Civil Service recruits by merit on the basis of fair and open competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles.

Complaints Procedure:
If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, please contact;
Penny Phillpotts
Intellectual Property Office,
Concept House,
Cardiff Road,
Newport,
NP10 8QQ.

Attachments

What's on offer at the IPO Opens in new window (pdf, 2034kB)IPO Modernised Terms and Conditions Opens in new window (doc, 149kB)Lead Data Engineer Role Profile Opens in new window (docx, 106kB)