Senior Data Engineers - FCDO - SEOThe Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office pursues our national interests and projects the UK's role in the world. We promote the interests of British citizens, safeguard the UK's security, defend our values, reduce poverty and tackle global challenges with our international partners. We employ more than 17,000 staff in 179 countries and territories, across our diplomatic and development offices worldwide, which consists of 282 officially designated Posts. Our UK-based staff work in King Charles Street, London, Abercrombie House in East Kilbride and in Milton Keynes.
These roles contribute to FCDOs Data Strategy to improve insights to the business by provisioning it with reliable and trustworthy data sources and improving their delivery in a secure manner in compliance with Data regulations.
The team is primarily Azure focused but other Cloud technologies such as Oracle and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are used in FCDO. The successful candidates will build complex data pipelines (both Extract Transform and Load {ETL} and Extract Load and Transform {ELT}) in the Azure cloud platforms. You will work with structured and unstructured data, data lakes, data warehouses to service operational and analytical business needs.
The successful candidates will:
It is essential in your application that you provide evidence and proven examples in each of the following Minimum Criteria, the Behaviours and the Technical question as far as you are able to do so. These responses will be further developed and discussed with those candidates invited for interview.
You must be a British Citizen at the time of application and, if invited to interview, you will need to bring proof of identity (British Passport/Driving Licence etc.) with you.
This role requires you to attain Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance.
For more information about this process, . Attaining DV will require you to have been resident in the UK for five of the last ten years. At least one year of this must have been a consecutive twelve-month period. Serving overseas with HM Forces, in some other official capacity as a representative of His Majesty's Government or having lived overseas as a result of your parents' or partner's Government employment counts as UK residency for the purposes of security clearances.
Minimum Criteria
Demonstratable track record of delivering the following Technical skills from the Government Digital Data Professional role:
Communicating between the technical and non-technical, Working level - you can:
Data development process, Practitioner level - you can:
Data innovation, Working level - you can:
Data integration design, Practitioner level - you can:
Data modelling, Practitioner level - you can:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
We only ask for evidence of these technical skills on your application form:
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