AMS PSR

On behalf of UKRI, we are looking for a Data Engineer (Inside IR35) for a 7 Month contract based REMOTELY with occasional visits to Swindon.

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is the national funding agency investing in science and research in the UK.

UKRI invests £8 billion of taxpayers’ money each year into research and innovation and the people who make it happen. They work across a huge range of fields –from biodiversity conservation to quantum computing, and from space telescopes to innovative health care. They give everyone the opportunity to contribute and to benefit, bringing together people and organisations nationally and globally to create, develop and deploy new ideas and technologies.

As a data engineer, your main responsibilities will be:

• Develop, maintain and support of ETL routines managed in a cloud-based environment. 
• Development and testing of code within the data infrastructure environment, ensuring that appropriate data quality, integrity and alerting is built into all solutions. 
• Collaborate with business subject matter experts to understand the organisation’s essential data requirements and to manage the organisation’s data assets. 
• Assessment and evaluation of any proposed data/system changes that might impact data performance, models or reports and recommend amendments if required. 
• Support development of processes that ensure standards and procedures are correctly applied and take responsibility for the quality of own work.

You will have:

• Extensive ETL/ELT development project experience including the designing, developing and building of pipelines, preferably including Talend Data Fabric. 
• Knowledge of MySQL and SQL Server databases with the ability to query multiple databases. 
• Knowledge of Cloud based platforms. 
• Experience of relational database design, including physical, canonical and logical design. 
• Knowledge of varied software development tools, methods and technologies. 
• Java/Python coding experience and exposure to

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, UKRI 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 Commitment

UKRI 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".