About The Service
The ICT department provides high quality IT systems, support and maintenance to enable Cardiff Council to deliver its full range of services. The Enterprise Systems and Data teams within ICT are responsible for the development, support and maintenance of both in-house developed and 3rd party applications consumed by internal staff and the wider public. You will be joining an enthusiastic and ambitious team, with opportunities to work with a range of cutting-edge technologies. You should have a desire to work in a fast-paced, agile team environment, and be happy to pair on your work and work independently. You will have access to a diverse range of learning opportunities to enable you to develop your career path. This will include any industry recognised professional qualifications and/or degrees where appropriate.
About the job
We are looking for an enthusiastic and self-motivated person to join our small but busy and successful Data engineering team. The Data Team is responsible for developing and maintaining our high-quality data provisioning service which ensures that management information is available to decision makers across our organisation. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with our three other experienced Senior Data Engineers and our Enterprise Architect. The Senior Data Engineer post will also be responsible for optimizing business processes relating to our SAP ERP application by developing interfaces, workflows and custom reports using ABAP programming language and other SAP development tools. Training will be provided but a proven aptitude for software engineering and development is vital.
What We Are Looking For From You
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Implementing organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for data management processes, including classification, security, quality, ethical principles, retrieval and retention processes.
2. Creating data models that visually represent and convey data requirements to enable our organisation to understand its data assets.
3. Developing data management structures and metadata to support consistency of information retrieval, combination, analysis, pattern recognition and interpretation throughout our organisation.
4. Delivering a structured and effective data repository for our organisation.
5. Designing, building, testing and maintaining ETL processes on very large datasets.
6. Optimising code and configuring cloud provisioned resources to achieve maximum throughput and allowing business critical workloads to take priority.
7. Monitor ETL/ELT processes, quickly act upon failures, proactively communicate errors/failures, and coordinate with other teams whenever necessary to resolve.
8. Using ABAP and SAP development tools, customise standard SAP functionalities, create custom reports and interfaces, implement business logic and workflows and integrate external systems with our SAP ERP application as requested by our business teams for operational or project work.
9. Working to best practices in source code management, using the company source control tools and processes.
10. Ensuring that high-quality documentation is developed, maintained, regularly reviewed for all development and operational processes.
11. Performing peer reviews of solutions and documentation in order to ensure that company procedures and standards are followed consistently.
12. Contributing to the development of the organisation's technology platform.
Additional information
This vacancy is suitable for post share.
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