DWP Digital
Senior Data Engineer
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Senior Data Engineer
Senior Data Engineer – DWP Digital
Join DWP Digital and lead the future of data engineering in one of the UK's largest and most impactful digital environments.
As a Senior Data Engineer, you’ll join our Data Platform and Operations team within Data & Analytics, playing a pivotal role in shaping how we design, build, and evolve data platforms that support DWP’s ambition to become a truly data-driven organisation.
We’re recruiting for two roles, both focused on technical leadership, engineering excellence, and building capability. You’ll lead engineers—sometimes through direct line management, sometimes through technical leadership across teams—setting direction, guiding delivery, and mentoring others as we grow our senior engineering capability. This is a unique opportunity to help establish what excellence looks like for senior data engineering within our enablement space.
With significant platform migration and transformation activity underway, your role will combine hands-on engineering, technical oversight, and strategic influence. You’ll ensure our data pipelines and services are robust, scalable, and aligned to best practice, supporting services that make a real difference to millions of people across the UK.
The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We’d love you to join us.
About the Role
You’ll be a key part of building and shaping the senior data engineering capability within our Data Platform and Operations function—particularly within our enablement space, where we’re establishing stronger leadership, standards, and engineering practices.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Leading engineers both directly and indirectly, providing day-to-day guidance, mentoring, and technical direction.
- In some teams, you’ll have line management responsibility; in others, your influence will come through:
- Leading work streams
- Setting direction
- Driving conversations that shape engineering outcomes across multiple teams
- Supporting ongoing platform migrations and transformations, including:
- Designing and building new pipelines and services
- Reviewing and assuring the work of other engineers
- Setting standards and best practices for consistency and quality across delivery
- Playing a central role in building engineering capability, including:
- Supporting less experienced engineers
- Embedding best practice
- Helping create a culture of continuous improvement
- Conducting code reviews and technical coaching
- Defining approaches to data engineering at scale
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Requirements
You will need experience leading technical delivery of data or ETL projects, ensuring the work is high quality, reliable, and fit for purpose.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Solid hands-on experience with Informatica PowerCentre is essential, including how it’s used to:
- Integrate, transform, and manage data effectively
- Strong experience building and delivering data pipelines using:
- Cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
- Big data tools, such as Kafka or Spark
- Confident in using:
- Python (or PySpark) and SQL to process, transform, and analyse data
- Ability to guide others in these areas
- Good understanding of modern data platforms (such as Azure/Fabric), including:
- Data ingestion, cleaning, structuring
- Making data available to users
- Experience leading or supporting large-scale platform migrations or transformations, ensuring:
- Best practices are followed
- Risks are effectively managed
- Ability to lead engineers through:
- Line management or
- Technical leadership
- Including coaching, mentoring, and helping others develop their skills
Additional Notes
- This role requires Security Check clearance.
Details. Wages. Perks.
Location
You’ll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs based in:
- Blackpool
- Birmingham
- Leeds
- Manchester
- Newcastle
- Sheffield
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Working Arrangement
- Hybrid model: You’ll balance time at home with face-to-face collaboration at your designated digital hub.
Pay
We offer pay up to £75,664, comprising:
- £68,205 salary
- A Digital Allowance of up to £7,459, subject to assessment at interview.
Pension Benefits
- You’ll access a brilliant civil service pension, with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £16,786 per year.
Benefits Package
We offer a broad benefits package built around work-life balance, including:
- Flexible working, including:
- Flexible hours
- Flex-friendly policies
- Time off for:
- Volunteering
- Charitable giving
- Wellbeing initiatives, including:
- "I Can Be Me in DWP" – Bring your authentic self to work
- Discounts and savings on:
- Shopping
- Entertainment
- Days out
- Subsidies to:
- Buy a bike or season ticket (interest-free loans), making commuting easier
- Sports and social activities
- Professional development opportunities, including:
- Coaching
- Mentoring
- Career progression
Our Culture & Recognition
- 2024 Diversity Employer of the Year (Computing Women in Tech Excellence Awards)
- Diverse and Inclusive Leadership (Digital Leaders Awards 2024)
- Commended as Best Place to Work in Digital (Computing Digital Technology Leaders Awards 2025)
- Recognised as one of the Best Public Sector Employers (Women In Tech Employer Awards 2025)
Application Process
We value your time, so our process is two simple stages:
- Apply: Complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. Full instructions will be provided when you click through.
- Interview: A two-stage online interview.
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Ready to shape the future of UK public sector data engineering? We’re waiting for you.
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