ICP Enterprise Data Engineer

On behalf of Homes England, we are looking for an ICP Enterprise Data Engineer (Inside IR35) for a January 2027 contract based Remotely with occasional travel to London.

Homes England, the government's housing and regeneration agency, plays a central role in tackling the housing challenges the country now faces. We have the appetite, influence, expertise, and resource to drive positive market change, and our mission is to ensure more homes are built in areas of greatest need, improve affordability and create a sustainable housing market.

Following the publication of the government's Levelling Up White Paper, Homes England has also been tasked with a core role in spearheading regeneration, partnering with places to reduce economic disparity, empower local leaders and create equal opportunities across the country to ensure communities reach their full potential.

As a ICP Enterprise Data Engineer, your main responsibilities will be:
. Act as the day-to-day enterprise point of contact for data-engineering-related technical queries, risks and issues across all ICP-Data workstreams.
. Coordinate with Enterprise Data Architecture to ensure data engineering delivery aligns with agreed architectural principles, data models and target-state designs, without redefining or owning those standards.
. Work closely with Enterprise Analysis to ensure data engineering delivery supports agreed capability definitions, scope boundaries and phase objectives.
. Provide enterprise-level oversight of Azure Databricks usage across ICP capability and platform initiatives, ensuring consistent application of agreed data engineering patterns, CI/CD approaches and platform engineering practices.
. Ensure agreed data engineering standards and ways of working are applied consistently by all delivery resources operating within ICP-Data, including internal, supplier and contingent resources.
. Maintain oversight of engineering readiness and common delivery enablers, including environment setup, platform access, CI/CD enablement, onboarding, and other recurring blockers that may affect delivery quality, pace or supportability.
. Maintain visibility of data engineering delivery health, including progress, cross-workstream dependencies, risks, technical debt, platform impacts and resourcing concerns.
. Act as a central escalation point for delivery-related engineering, platform or resourcing issues, escalating material risks to the Head of Data Engineering and Platform and relevant governance forums where required.

Essential:
. Significant experience in modern cloud data engineering, including Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, CI/CD automation and engineering practices in enterprise Azure environments.
. Strong understanding of data integration design, data modelling, metadata, engineering assurance and the secure design of repeatable, reliable and reusable data solutions.
. Experience of providing technical oversight, assurance or coordination across multiple teams, suppliers or workstreams in a complex delivery environment.
. Strong working knowledge of Python, PySpark, SQL, Git-based development and Azure DevOps, including the practical application of engineering quality controls and deployment standards.
. Good understanding of enterprise cloud security and governance controls, including identity and access management, managed identities, service principals, key vault usage, network isolation and least-privilege access.
. Experience identifying, tracking and resolving engineering risks, platform blockers and cross-workstream dependencies, with the judgement to escalate issues at the right time.

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

Disability Confident

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, Homes England 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. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant

Homes England guarantees to interview veterans or spouses/partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates/military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

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".