Data Engineer

Job Title: Data Engineer

Hours: Full-time, 36 hours

Job Status: Permanent

Location: Leeds (with the option of agile/hybrid working)

Salary: £52,575.15 per annum

Closing Date: 18 May 2025

Interview Date(s): 27 and 28 May 2025

Skills for Care is the strategic workforce development and planning body for adult social care in England. We work with employers, Government and partners to ensure social care has the right people, skills and support required to deliver the highest quality care and support now and in the future.

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Working as part of the Workforce Intelligence team, the postholder will work collaboratively within Skills for Care and where appropriate within the Adult Social Care sector as part of an Agile data engineering team. You will work alongside data analysts, data modellers, and external engineers and data scientists to develop and deliver data pipelines, databases and deployment solutions. Your main focus will be the development and maintenance of the pipelines to estimate the size and composition of the Adult Social Care Workforce. You will also work on bespoke data engineering tasks designed to meet user needs within the sector. You will be part of a new and growing data engineering team within a wider team of data analysts.

The data engineering pipeline is in the early stages of production. It ingests data from multiple sources, cleans, models and checks the data quality of outputs which can them be accessed by the wider team of analysts. You will work alongside the product owner, data modeller and other analysts in an Agile way to build and maintain the pipeline, meeting requirements set by either DHSC or internal colleagues. You will also work alongside external data engineers and data scientists, who may not be familiar with the datasets, to accelerate development.

Our technology stack consists of:

Python and Pyspark AWS glue jobs assembled into Step functions

Pydeequ for data quality testing

Circle CI for deployment

Amazon Athena for querying data

Hosted on AWS, using S3, Glue, Step functions, EMR, and Athena

Terraform for Infrastructure as Code

Our code is open source and we use Git and GitHub for source control

If you are interested in this role, please access the full job description for further information and we look forward to receiving your application.

At Skills for Care, we are committed to creating a culture of Belonging, where all of our People are able to contribute to their full potential. All our People are expected to contribute towards the achievement of our aspirations for equality, equity, diversity and inclusion. To find out more please check our (https://(url removed)/About-us/Equality-diversity-and-inclusion/Equality-diversity-and-inclusion.aspx).

At Skills for Care, we want our People to be representative of the society we support, this includes all equality characteristics such as age, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief. This lived experience from a diverse group of people helps us with all the work that we do and ultimately supports the social care sector to provide the best quality care. We encourage applications from, but not limited to, people from minoritised ethnic backgrounds, people who identify as LGBTQ+ and people with disabilities.

Candidates will always be selected based on experience and potential.

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Information about reasonable adjustments

We want all applicants to be able to fully participate in our selection processes. We welcome requests for adjustments to our recruitment and selection processes from applicants with disabilities, impairments, or health conditions, and will always consider support available in the recruitment process.

Please contact our People Team via email ((url removed)) to discuss any adjustments that you may need