Lead Data Engineer

As a Lead Data Engineer, you will be leading our data engineering delivery, joining our Data & Analytics hub or Health domain spoke. You will lead in the design, building and testing for data services, providing technical direction that ensures we provide reliable, trusted and interoperable data to meet user needs across DWP, other government departments and with our private sector partners. You will ensure that our data products are built using the right techniques in how we prepare, store and use data. You will also be responsible for collating the technical requirements necessary to be implemented as migration to new platforms are rolled out. You will work alongside data engineers, responsible for the enhancing the capability within the team. You will also work alongside data scientists, digital performance analysts, testers, content designers, user researchers, and Power BI specialists.

DWP. Digital with Purpose. We are looking for a Lead Data Engineer to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital. We're using fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives. DWP have big ambitions to become a data driven organisation through delivery of our data strategy. These are key roles leading our data engineering delivery in our Data & Analytic hub Data Platform Team, and, within our Health domain data team. DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work, and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people. The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.