AMS PSR

On behalf of ONS, we are looking for a Junior Data Engineer (INSIDE IR35) for a 9 month contract based Hybris in either Newport, Manchester or Darlington.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the UK’s largest producer of official statistics, covering a range of key economic, social and demographic topics. These include measuring changes in the value of the UK economy, estimating the size, geographic distribution and characteristics of the population, and providing indicators of price inflation, employment, earnings, crime and migration.

SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position (short-term nature of this role and speed at which we require a postholder in situ) preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance. 

As a Junior Data Engineer, your main responsibilities will be:

• Develop and construct data products and services and integrate them into systems and business processes.
• Re-engineer manual data flows to enable scaling and repeatable use.
• Write ETL scripts and code to make sure the ETL process performs optimally,
• Write PySpark, Python, SQL code that will systemise the processing of data, based on initial design documents.
• This includes writing unit / integration tests and managing versions of code with Git.
• Support the build of pipelines by the operational team that can be easily maintained, adapted and re-run.
• Maintain and review documentation for statistical and data processing functions, as well as data processing pipelines.

Essential:

• Python
• PySpark/Pandas
• SQL

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, ONS guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant 

ONS guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".