Data Engineer

We are seeking a skilled and motivated Data Engineer to play a key role in building and maintaining our data infrastructure. You will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining our data architecture. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the efficient flow and storage of data, enabling the organisation to make informed decisions. If you are passionate about data, have a positive attitude, have a strong foundation in engineering, and thrive in a collaborative environment, we want to hear from you.

We are looking for someone who:

• Can design, build and maintain data pipelines and ETL processes


• Interested in seeing data used to help people and communities


• Have a positive attitude


• Able to collaborate with data specialists, analysts, and other stakeholders to understand data requirements


• Able to join datasets from multiple sources


• Stay current with emerging technologies and best practices in data engineering


• Are up for a challenge
  
  We have started an ambitious programme of work to transform our approach to data, analytics and insight at Salford City Council. Our ambition is to develop a leading data and insight service that uses cutting edge tools and technologies to better understand our city, its residents, and businesses.


A key component of our transformation programme is the development of our data architecture. We collect large volumes of data about our residents and businesses across a large number of areas including children's social care, adult social care, homelessness, debt advice, welfare support, council tax, and community centres. This data is stored in multiple systems, and we need to be able to join up this data to so that we can better understand the needs of our city.

Our data engineers will play a pivotal role in this project, building and maintaining this data architecture. This will then be used by our analysts and data scientists to provide actionable insights that help the council to deliver public services to the people of Salford.

If you are interested in being part of our project, please submit a CV and expression of interest showing how you meet the criteria set out in the role profile.

About your benefits

You will be welcomed into a friendly environment where your personal and professional development will be encouraged and you will have the opportunity to work and grow in a values based organisation where people are at the heart of everything we do. We promote a positive permission culture, empowering you to make a difference. Your opinions matter to us and you will have the opportunity to shape how we do things through our Salford 100 employee group and our employee led redesign approach. Your work-life balance and wellbeing are important to us so you will have access to a range of benefits including flexible working, green travel, pension and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition to this we offer a range of health and wellbeing options to suit your needs.

Continuous service commitment

New employees can now keep their service related benefits when moving between a whole host of public sector organisations within Greater Manchester, which include: Councils, NHS, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue, Transport for Greater Manchester, as well as many others.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer and a Stonewall Diversity Champion. We understand how hard it can be to combine caring for a loved one with work so we aim to provide support and flexibility to balance family and caring responsibilities with work

Our core data protection obligations and commitments are set out in the council's primary Recruitment and Employment Privacy Notice which can be found at .

We have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, carers, and ex-military personnel by way of a Guaranteed Assessment Scheme. Our application forms ask you to indicate if you meet any of the criteria within this scheme, and so to find out more and if you qualify please visit