Senior Data Engineer - Office for National Statistics - SEO

Location: Newport or Titchfield

Looking to apply your data engineering skills to work that directly informs decision-making across the UK?

This opportunity sits within the Office for National Statistics, working on large-scale data platforms that support national priorities, from crisis response to economic insight.

Why this role stands out

• Work on AI-augmented data products and pipelines

• Contribute to national statistics and cross-government data platforms

• Play a role in high-impact work such as COVID data insights and cost-of-living analysis

• Collaborate with analysts and data scientists to unlock the value of complex datasets

• Be part of a team building reusable, automated data engineering solutions

What You’ll Be Doing

• Designing and building scalable data pipelines

• Preparing and linking complex datasets for analysis

• Improving data quality through cleansing, validation and enhancement

• Translating business needs into technical solutions

• Supporting and mentoring others in a collaborative team environment

Tech you’ll use

• Python

• Py

Spark

• SQL

• AWS and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Experience Needed

• Data engineering, software engineering, or data science

• Building or maintaining data pipelines

• Working with cloud platforms (especially GCP)

• Communicating technical concepts with different stakeholders

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