Senior Data Engineer

On behalf of The Ministry of Justice we are looking for a Senior Data Engineer (Inside IR35) for a 6 month contract. Hybrid working with 2-3 days per week required in any MoJ UK office. The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) priorities include improving public safety and reducing reoffending by reforming prisons, probation and youth justice, and building a justice system which makes access to justice swifter and more certain for all citizens whatever their background. Project professionals in the MoJ help to improve the government’s ability to protect the public and reduce reoffending, and to provide a more effective, transparent and responsive criminal justice system for victims and the public.

You will form part of a multi-disciplinary team responsible for the delivery of a range of outcomes in support of the wider Technology Services teams. You will play a key role within the team whose deliverables include:

• * Development of data products such as data warehousing, data models, reporting, and business applications at scale to support improved business outcomes.
• * Provision of specialist skills in Microsoft BI Stack (Azure SQL, Fabric, Synapse Analytics, Power BI).
• * Analysis of data focusing on descriptive, diagnostic, and predictive analytics.
• * Provision of insights to inform decision-makers and other stakeholders.
• * Provision of a managed service to support projects and BAU activities.
• * Governance of data quality across systems to ensure high standards are achieved and maintained, providing high levels of assurance.

As a Senior Data Engineer your main responsibilities will be:

• * Implement data flows to connect operational systems, analytics platforms, and business intelligence (BI) systems.
• * Document source-to-target mappings and define data architecture.
• * Re-engineer manual data flows to enable scalability and reusability.
• * Support the build of data streaming and batch processing systems.
• * Write ETL (extract, transform, load) scripts and code to ensure optimal ETL performance.
• * Develop reusable business intelligence reports and dashboards.
• * Build accessible and governed data solutions for analysis.
• * Recognise opportunities to reuse existing data flows and optimise processes.

Essential:

• * An active SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. (Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position (short-term nature of this role and speed at which we require a postholder in situ) preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance.)
• * ETL/ELT development using tools such as Azure Data Factory.
• * Extensive experience with SQL Server and Data Warehousing.
• * Strong understanding and experience working with Microsoft Fabric.
• * Experience working with large and complex datasets.
• * Data Modelling and Design expertise.
• * Basic DBA skills.
• * Report development in Power BI.
• * Experience with data lake and cloud data warehousing.

Desirable:

• * ServiceNow experience is an advantage.
• * Code version control via GitHub or similar would be an advantage.
• * CI/CD experience would be an advantage.
• * Microsoft certification in Fabric or Power BI is an advantage.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, MOJ guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply.

Armed Forces Covenant

The Ministry of Justice guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".