Job title: Senior Engineer (Data)
Department: Digital, Data & Technology Group
Salary: Starting from £37,999, rising to £45,163
Grade: Grade 7
Contract Type: Full Time, Fixed Term
Placed on: Friday 01 November 2024
Closing date: Thursday 14 November 2024
Interview date: Friday 29 November 2024
Reference: CH12185
We are seeking talented Senior Data Engineers to join our team and contribute to the development and implementation of our University Data Hub.
What is our University Data Hub?
The University is undertaking a strategic project to enhance its Data & Insights capability – enabling the right people to access information and insights at the right time, with the right quality. We are building a brand-new University Data Hub in the AWS cloud, replacing an old on-premises solution. The UDH will transform and integrate data from various sources, including live operating data, key data snapshots, and external datasets. It will manage structured and unstructured datasets, analyse incoming data quality to inform data governance, act as a single source of truth, and support all analytics activities. It will underpin reports and dashboards via the Data Marketplace, with advanced modelling and machine learning as internal capacity and capability allow.
What will you do?
* Develop and optimise ETL pipelines using AWS Glue, Kinesis, and Step Functions
* Manage and enhance data lakes with S3, Athena, and Lake Formation
* Implement robust data quality processes using Glue Data Quality
* Design event-driven architectures with EventBridge and Lambda
Key Responsibilities:
* Develop and maintain a state-of-the-art data infrastructure
* Support a self-service data platform serving over 3,500 staff
* Create real-time analytics solutions to provide operational insights
* Build scalable data pipelines and integrations for predictive analytics
* Provide leadership, support and technical guidance to junior team members
Professional Growth Opportunities:
* Play a key role in the adoption of DataOps and MLOps methodologies
* Explore applications of emerging technologies in data processing
* Provide mentorship and technical guidance to junior data engineers
What we can offer you:
Find out more about our benefits.
We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university.
We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.
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