This is a brilliant time to join Rural Payments Agency (RPA) – our organisation is growing and we’re at the heart of delivering the Government’s agricultural transition and making a genuine difference to the health of our environment and rural economy. We continue to make year on year improvements in performance as we become a data and intelligence-led organisation, embedding our vision of customer excellence at every level and growing our reputation to make a difference every day.
Our Data, Insight & Outcomes Business Area is a multidisciplinary team including Geospatial Analysts, Data Engineers and Architects, Data and Intelligence Analysts and a national Field Team. Together, we’re in a unique position to use our specialist skills to work with the agricultural community to deliver big, impactful change, supporting high level environmental and animal welfare outcomes and the move towards net zero. This is a really exciting time to join our team as we grow and develop our ability to continuously analyse nationwide agricultural activity and provide agile, directed data and evidence-driven support to the farming community.
We have clear values that we are embedding at every level in our organisation – improving engagement and innovating to be a more inclusive, supportive, and engaging employer. Our people own our values and bring them to life in everything we do – recent new starters have talked glowingly about how supportive and caring their new colleagues are. We are proud of this culture; how open and approachable we are and our commitment to individual development, investing in the skills of our people and creating an environment in which everyone can flourish. We hope that this appeals to you.
Further information can be found on the Rural Payments Agency website: rpa.gov.uk
As a Junior Data Engineer, you will be joining a team of data engineering professionals, who are committed to delivering high-impact, secure data solutions to achieve departmental and directorate objectives.
* You will drive high data quality across the data engineering solutions you develop through efficient coding and robust unit testing.
* You will help facilitate the communication of technical processes to different technical and nontechnical audiences.
* You will partner and collaborate with other data engineers and business users to understand data needs and deliver on those needs.
* You will be adapting and embedding practices such as Devops within the products you develop. In addition to assisting in the development and maintenance of repeatable and reusable data products and technical documentation.
* You will help build and maintain our data engineering community to facilitate knowledge sharing, innovation, and collaboration across the department.
* Above all, you will be proactive and want to make an impact, and this may sometimes involve challenging current methods.
Your responsibilities will include the following:
* Designing data pipelines within SQL that efficiently load and transform data from a wider variety of sources.
* Unit testing pipelines to ensure data produced is of a high quality and meets requirements.
* Working with customers to ensure that their requirements are fully understood.
* Working closely with data suppliers to gain access to data in the most suitable form.