Data Solutions Engineer
Closing date: Sunday 24 November 2024
Salary: Up to £35,000
Contract type: Permanent
Working hours: Full time
Location: Home based with occasional travel to Newark office / UK
The Wildlife Trusts are a federated movement of 46 charities, supported by a central charity, the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts. Together we have 900,000 members, 32,500 volunteers and 3,400 staff across the UK. We are at an exciting moment in our 110-year history, with the development of an ambitious new strategy, setting out a vision of nature in recovery, with abundant, diverse wildlife and natural processes creating wilder landscapes where people and nature thrive.
Wildlife Trusts have restored and care for some of the most special places for wildlife in the UK. Collectively we manage more than 2,300 nature reserves, operate 123 visitor and education centres and own 29 working farms. We undertake research, we stand up for wildlife and wild places under threat, and we help people access nature.
As Data Solutions Engineer, you will play a crucial role in supporting the work of The Wildlife Trusts by maintaining and enhancing our data pipelines and infrastructure. You will be responsible for ensuring the effectiveness, efficiency, and scalability of data systems, providing key insights and solutions to support decision-making across the organisation and federation, responding to the needs of Wildlife Trusts and the delivery of our 2030 Strategy.
Working collaboratively with various teams, you will develop data management solutions, new use cases, forecast data volumes, and ensure cost-effective service maintenance. You will be integral in enabling us to leverage data for operational and strategic success and in supporting a strong community of practice within the federation of Wildlife Trusts.
You should have experience in a data engineering role, ideally with hands-on experience or the ability to upskill in cloud services like Azure and Databricks, as well as excellent proven proficiency in some of Apache Spark, Fivetran, SQL and/or Python and R, and/or PowerBI and other reporting tools.
You will work closely with and on behalf of teams across the Wildlife Trusts to ensure our data systems are secure, optimised, scalable, and cost-efficient. You should have a solid understanding of data security to ensure compliance with best practices. Excellent communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams are essential.
If you are a problem solver with a can-do attitude and a passion for data, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity to become our Data Solutions Engineer.
The Wildlife Trusts value passion, respect, trust, integrity, pragmatic activism and strength in diversity. We particularly encourage applications from people who are underrepresented within our sector, including people from minority backgrounds and people with disabilities.
The Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts takes our safeguarding responsibilities extremely seriously. RSWT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults at risk.
As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to offering an interview to anyone with a disability that meets all the essential criteria for the post.
RSWT are committed to increasing the diversity of its staff through its Levelling the Field recruitment pledge and will put any ethnic minority applicants that meet all the essential criteria for the post through to the next stage of recruitment.
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