Senior Data Engineer

About the role

As a Senior Data Engineer joining our Data Engineering team, you will provide leadership and expertise in developing new techniques, tools and pipelines. You will transform and manipulate geospatial data into forms suitable for visualisation, analysis and further development with your Agile team.

Providing insight and experience to inform data-driven decision making, your focus will be on building, maintaining and troubleshooting data processing systems to meet business requirements; with an emphasis on security, reliability, fault-tolerance, scalability, fidelity, and efficiency.

Researching and utilising cutting-edge big data and machine learning technologies to automate and simplify processes, is all part of the role. Youll be a key team member in one of our development teams, with the primary focus of your day to day activities being data manipulation and delivering data pipelines to aid development.

What were looking for 

A degree level qualification in a quantitative discipline or significant experience in a relevant field, such as statistical modelling or mathematics

Experience in Microsoft Azure Cloud Services (or similar)

Working knowledge of Databricks and Spark

Relevant programming language(s) and databases

Geospatial data processing and analysis techniques

Influencing key business and technical stakeholders, with strong presentation and consultancy skills

Providing technical coaching and mentoring

Skills in the following would be advantageous:

Line Management

Hadoop, Elasticsearch, TensorFlow, Keras, or equivalent big data processing and machine learning technologies

The rewards 

We want you to love what you do. Thats why our benefits package rewards a job well done. Well give you: 

Salary: £45,951 - £54,060

Performance related bonus

A competitive pension scheme

37 hour working week (with flexible working options)

25 days annual leave - (30 days after five years) bank holidays and an extra 3 over Christmas

Plus, a suite of excellent additional benefits

Location

This role will be based at our state-of-the-art Headquarters in Southampton. However, all our people, where they can are currently working from home. 

We recognise that Ordnance Surveys ambition to continue attracting and retaining the most talented individuals means providing flexibility where possible, which is why were keen to hear from suitable open to hybrid working; where there will be a split between home and office working.