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Job Details:
Salary range: £53,109 - £72,669 per annum
Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QP
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Temporary up to 12 months
Closing date: 6 September 2024
Contact details for Informal discussion: Stephen Waterman, Head of Data via email on SWATERMAN@WESTMINSTER.GOV.UK
About Us:
THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF ANAKHA'S FRESH THINKING
Creativity isn't something that only senior managers do. In Digital and Innovation at Westminster City Council, we expect it from everyone, including our newest recruits.
Enter Anakha, a graduate trainee, full of energy and fresh ideas. We welcomed her input to our Smart City initiatives, especially our Innovation Hub - a newly created space where staff, residents and businesses can meet, experiment and exchange ideas.
But it was what happened next that really made a difference. Anakha's innovation space project was used to invite young people to help them find work through the Kickstart programme as well as to recruit young people to our Tech Lions initiative, and is regularly occupied by the Apprentice community.
We're also inviting residents aged 11-19 from the Westminster Youth Council to the Hub to attend a fun 'speed dating' event, where they hear from different digital teams. We'll continue to meet with them every week to keep them directly involved in our plans to ensure young people have a regular voice at the heart of the council. From the importance of electric vehicle charging points to new uses for tech, their insights about the kind of city they want to live in are central to our plans.
As for Anakha, she's now moved into a permanent Project Manager role in the Digital and Innovation Smart City team. Supported by ongoing mentoring from colleagues, she's already developing even bigger and better ideas.
The Role:
As a Data Engineer, you can make your own powerful contribution to Westminster's success. Working across the Digital and Innovation portfolio, your positive and relentless focus on delivery will see you supporting our core IT and technology activities, with a particular focus on our ambition to make Westminster a world class city for all.
We'll ask you to work in a number of different ways - these include joining our product team to continuously improve and meet the needs of our users, using Agile/Waterfall methodologies to deliver agreed outcomes, and delivering against a set of requirements as a member of a service team. You'll also operate across the council to extract, clean, combine and store data in a way that allows it to help service delivery and decision making, and build and link data sets so that our scientists and analysts can derive insights and access sensitive information.
But your work won't stop here - we'll also ask you to build pipelines and APIs to connect operational systems, and data platforms for analytics and business intelligence systems. You'll also lead a series of data engineering projects, undertake major programmes within business-critical live systems, and help to identify ways in which we can speed up the ways in which we access data. In addition, we'll expect you to write Extract, Transform & Load (ETL) scripts and code to make sure the relevant processes perform correctly, and work with analysts to build visualisations and reports that can help improve decision making.
Please refer to Job Description for more information
About You:
With in-depth practical knowledge of modern data engineering tools, technologies and practices, and a good understanding of corporate, industry and professional data standards, you'll be up to speed with the evolution of data practices, skills, frameworks and strategy in the UK public sector. Ready to use your inspirational leadership qualities to deliver projects, products and services, you'll also be capable of working with multiple complex data sets to derive insights and patterns, and build dashboards and visualisations.
When it comes to the use of cloud data engineering platforms and products you should have worked with Azure Data Factory, Synapse and GCP, and have the skills to use Python to build data pipelines and visualizations. We'll also look for well developed knowledge of tools such as PowerBI and Tableau, an understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases, and experience of using Extract, Transform and Load processes for large monolithic IT systems.
With a genuine passion for learning and self-development, your excellent writing skills will allow you to communicate clearly about highly technical subjects to a wide range of audiences. You should also have excellent programming and coding skills across a range of languages, the ability to analyse data, find patterns and derive insights, and be capable of building and testing data pipelines and products to meet user needs.
The Council is committed to achieving diverse shortlists to support our desire to increase the number of staff from underrepresented groups in our workforce. We especially encourage applications from a global majority background and, while the role is open to all applicants, we will utilise the positive action provisions of the Equality Act 2010 to appoint a candidate from a global majority background where there is a choice between two candidates of equal merit. If you are from a Global Majority background, you can self-declare this to the hiring manager as part of our positive action commitments.
What We Offer:
Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster.
Westminster City Council's strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city's future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.
At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties
As a forward thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.
The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.
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