Senior Data Engineer

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Reporting to the Data Engineering Manager you will:

• Provide technical expertise and oversight for migration program of analytics workloads from on-prem analytics software to GCP BigQuery platform.
• Work with business teams to understand their requirements and to provide and coordinate support during the migration process.
• Assign migration tasks to junior team members and ensure they are progressing in line with migration plan.
• Identify and implement appropriate programs of testing and validation for migrated workloads.
• Create functional design specifications and/or user stories as required.
• Ensure all developments and project work are in line with Revenue standards.
• Quality assure code and output in the project.
• Peer review code.
• Identify and implement appropriate programs of testing and validation for migrated workloads.
• Mentor and coach junior members.
• Guide intermediate level team members in their work.
• Support project managers in all aspects of their work.
• Provide input to governance and status reports.
• Outline resource requirements for a project/sub team.
• Help track project progress against the plan and report variances.
• Identify and report on any technical risks that might be relevant to the project delivery.
• Manage issues and risks affecting the project/team.
• Investigate and prioritise live incidents. Perform root cause analysis and propose permanent fixes or suitable workarounds as required.
• Organise live incident tickets or bug tracking.
• Manage and monitor live issues across various Revenue Systems.
• Liaise with development / Continuous Service Improvement teams to identify and implement fixes as required to resolve live issues.
• Identify Continuous Service Improvements and work to implement the initiatives.

• Extensive experience in data engineering.

• Experience with cloud-based data technologies and/or migration of data and associated systems to cloud.

• Experience with AI-assisted development.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

• Ability to manage and work with large teams.

• Good team player, with strong interpersonal skills. Ability to connect, network and maximise the performance of a team in a challenging hybrid working environment.

• Understanding of systems architecture and databases

• Requirements gathering / Business Analysis skills to allow effective communication with the business and ensure smooth translation from business requirement to technical requirement.

• Technical solution design skills to determine the optimum solution using the correct blend of technologies to meet a set of defined requirements.

• Ability to perform complex analysis, to facilitate decision making and determine the appropriate courses of action.

• Ability to synthesise complex technical information and deliver meaningful messages to people of various technical abilities.

• Sound grasp of the fundamentals of taxation and/or customs, from registration through to returns filing and payment options.

• Knowledge/experience of project delivery methodologies, application development lifecycle, waterfall development model, agile development model and hybrid development model.

• Experience working in standards driven environments.

• Experience working on engagements with technologies and architectures similar to Revenue's as outlined in Appendix 9 of RFT2024.

• Experience working in coding languages as outlined in Appendix 9 of RFT2024.

• Experience working with data using relational databases such as SQL and Ingres, and NoSQL frameworks such as Hadoop.

• Familiarity with techniques for parsing and manipulating structured data formats, RDBMS, XML, JSON, text files, etc.

• Ability to review project deliverables for completeness, quality and compliance with project standards.