Senior Data Engineer
Job Title: Senior Data Engineer
Salary: The starting salary is £60,893, which includes allowances totalling £2,928.
The salary is broken down as £57,965 basic salary, which will increase annually until you reach the top of the scale £63,230. Plus, a location allowance of £1,928 and a non-pensionable allowance of £1,000.
Location: The primary Met Location for this role is either Bow, Hendon, Lambeth, Southwark, Wimbledon or Sidcup. Travel across the Met Estate, to attend meetings as required by the business, is expected.
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Policing London is a hugely complex challenge that evolves every day. To make sure the Met is up to the task, we need the right IT and systems across our organisation. As a Senior Data Engineer, you will help to enable us to do our best for the London area. Join us and play your part in making London the safest capital in the world and delivering ‘More Trust, Less Crime and High Standards’.
As a member of the Met, you will also enjoy great benefits including annual leave, civil service pension arrangements, maternity/paternity support, as well as being part of a continuous learning culture.
Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT)
The mission of Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) is to provide the Met with information (and specifically data), communications and technology to help frontline officers and Met staff do their jobs more efficiently, in order to deliver the New Met for London plan. In other words, DDaT is about “passionately delivering trusted technology for precise data driven policing”.
As well as keeping up to speed with developments in technology and making recommendations for new equipment and systems that will help modernise policing, DDaT also comprises the Data Office which:
- Owns and drives the data compliance and analytics agenda.
- Brings together the accountabilities that are currently dispersed across the Met business areas.
- Consolidates and further develops existing Met data and insight services.
- Enables data sharing and collaboration to serve the public and external partners.
DDaT is committed to creating an inclusive working environment. We support hybrid working, and the hiring manager will be happy to discuss arrangements for this role.
Job Purpose
A Senior Data Engineer manages and mentors a team of Data Engineers who provided ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) capability on MPS data systems to deliver high-quality data, including automation, for onward processing and consumption. They are data experts and use cutting-edge tools and systems to provide data pipelines that underpin the data-driven culture the MPS is developing.
Key Role Responsibilities
- Manage and mentor a team of Data Engineers and Junior Data Engineers.
- Responsible for business liaison, requirements gathering, negotiating and agreeing deliverables with other teams/units.
- Deal with and escalate incidents and problems related to technical infrastructure.
- Build and maintain data pipelines in Azure and/or on prem.
- Design, build and maintain ETL processes using SQL Server, Alteryx, FME, or equivalent pipelines for collecting, storing, processing, analysing and visualising large datasets from multiple sources.
- Ensure that errors are handled, and exceptions reported within automated reporting solutions.
- Identify the scope for IT service and system improvements including data, reports, databases, automation, hardware and software.
- Manage the development of Fact tables from data extracted from corporate MPS systems.
- Monitors performance of existing databases/data warehouses/data lakes to identify areas of improvement or optimisation opportunities.
- Provide the business with accurate, relevant and timely data, research and performance information that contributes to a culture of continuous improvement, enhanced efficiency and evidence-based decision-making in the police.
Vetting Clearance
This post requires access to the most sensitive intelligence material on a daily basis. Applicants must hold or be prepared to undergo National Security Vetting (NSV) Security Check (enhanced) (SC(e)) level before taking up the post; with a willingness to undergo Developed Vetting (DV) once in post, if required.
Hybrid Working
Hybrid Working available in line with the Metropolitan Police Service hybrid working policy.
How to apply
To begin your career at the Met, please click the "apply now" button below. The application process requires a comprehensive CV, a Personal Statement, and an online application form. In your Personal Statement (1000 words maximum), you should explain your interest in the position and illustrate how your skills and experiences make you a suitable candidate. Please note that you should not submit two copies of your CV and ensure that your documents are saved in either PDF or Word format, clearly labelled as CV and/or Personal Statement.
Completed applications must be submitted by 23:55 on 26th May 2025.
Once received, your application will be reviewed against eligibility criteria, following this, your application will be reviewed by the hiring manager. The application review for this vacancy will begin week commencing 2nd June 2025.
Following application review, successful candidates will be invited to interview. Interview dates will begin week commencing 16th June 2025.
The Met is committed to being an equitable (fair and impartial) and inclusive employer for disabled people, striving to have a diverse and representative workforce at all levels. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible range of backgrounds, cultures and experiences. We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities and long-term conditions, ethnic minority groups, and women.
As a Disability Confident employer, the Met has committed to making disability equality part of our everyday practice. We ensure that people with disabilities and those with long term conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations.
The Met is committed to making reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process to ensure disabled applicants can perform at their best. If you need any reasonable adjustments or changes to the application and recruitment process, we ask that you include this information within your application form. All matters will be treated in strict confidence.
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