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# Data Engineer

Our Data Engineers enable public sector organisations to embrace a data-driven approach by providing data platforms and services that are high-quality, cost-efficient, and tailored to the clients’ needs. They develop, operate, and maintain these services. They make sure they provide maximum value to data consumers, including analysts, scientists, and business stakeholders.

## Your role at Made Tech

At Made Tech we want to positively impact the future of the country by using technology to improve society, for everyone. We want to empower the public sector to deliver and continuously improve digital services that are user-centric, data-driven and freed from legacy technology. A key component of this is developing modern data systems and platforms that drive informed decision-making for our clients.

As a Data Engineer, you'll play a hands-on role as a contributor to client projects, focusing on both delivering engineering work as well as upskilling members of the client team.

As a member of the data capability within Made Tech, you will also participate in our hiring process and continued development of the team, as well as representing us both internally to the organisation and publicly via presentations. You’ll need to have a drive to deliver outcomes for users and have a desire to mentor teams.

You will need to be comfortable sharing your knowledge and skills with others. Maybe you’ve written some blog posts about your discipline, or perhaps even delivered a talk or two that you’d like to share.

## What skills and experience are we looking for?

We look for the following skills and experience. But when we’re hiring for this role, if you don’t have some of the skills and experience listed below, don’t let that stop you from applying! 

- Working directly with clients and users
- Designing and implementing efficient data transformation processes at scale, in either batch or streaming use cases
- Contributing to the cloud infrastructure underpinning data systems through a DevOps approach
- Basic understanding of the possible architectures involved in modern data system design (e.g. warehouses, lakes, and meshes)
- Agile practices such as Scrum, XP, and/or Kanban
- Showcasing and presentation skills
- Evidence of self-development – we value keen learners
- Empathy and people skills

## Desirable experience

Experience in the following things isn’t essential, but it’s highly desirable!

- Working at a technology consultancy
- Pair programming
- Working with data scientists to productionise advanced data deliverables, such as machine learning models
- Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform, Cloud Formation)
- Working knowledge of statistics
- Working with multidisciplinary digital and technology teams
- Working within the public sector

## Work perks and benefits

Take a look at the Benefits & Perks section of the [Made Tech Handbook](https://github.com/madetech/handbook) to see what we can offer you. 

## Salary and location

We mainly work remotely but you may need to visit clients or go to the office occasionally. We have offices in London, Bristol, Manchester, and Swansea. 

We practice salary transparency when it comes to advertising roles at Made Tech. Every role we publish will include the salary range in the job ad, please do refer to that.

For any internal candidates, we are currently reviewing and refreshing our pay bands and will be sharing those internally first. They will then be placed back here again by the end of July 2025.

## Applying

When we’re hiring for this role, you can see the details and apply at www.madetech.com/careers. If you have any questions about the role please email us at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]). We’re happy to help!