Senior Data Engineer

On behalf of DWP we are looking for a Senior Data Engineer for a 6 month (Inside IR35) contract. Hybrid working with 3 days per week required in either Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield or Newcastle.

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:

. Help people to move into work and support those already in work to progress, with the aim of increasing overall workforce participation
. Help people to plan and save for later life, while providing a safety net for those who need it now
. Provide effective, efficient, and innovative services to the millions of claimants who rely on us every day, including the most vulnerable in society
. Improve experience of our services while maximising value for money for the taxpayer.

As a Senior Data Engineer your main responsibilities will be to:

. Ensure code executes with optimum efficiency within production environment.
. Create necessary unit test scenarios to provide assurance.
. Undertake code review of existing products, provide assessment of any identified issues along with process improvements.
. Produce a set of documents detailing processes and business rationale and provide these documents to assist with capacity issues within the team.
. Write Cost of Living payment code.
. Provide SAS development and testing capability to assist with capacity issues that the team are facing.
. Resolve and identify data quality issues within the data warehouse
. Perform root cause analysis to identify critical data issues and rectify issues quickly so not to delay any payments
. Support the resolution of data quality and data related issues, improving data quality as much as possible to lead to more accurate payment making.
. Build data visualisation products to support the wider project and communication of outcomes.
. Build MI dashboards.
. Create data ingest processes which automatically validate/identify data quality issues.

Essential:

. An active SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. (Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position (short-term nature of this role and speed at which we require a postholder in situ) preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance.)
. Informatica knowledge and experience.
. Understanding and experience of SAS Proc SQL, SQL, SAS Macro programming languages.
. Experience of working in unix environments along with Oracle database applications.
. Experience of using SAS Viya to develop and maintain MI products.
. Knowledge of working within AWS cloud environment to deploy and operate SAS products.

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, 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. 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

DWP 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".