Data Engineer - BI/MI Developer - DWP Digital - Multiple Locations

Learning People; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 37,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job description

Job Description

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Job summary

This role requires you to pass Security Check vetting. For information on the required UK residency requirements, please read the 'Security Clearance Requirement' section.

Are you an experienced data engineer looking to use data to tell stories? Would you like to design and build dashboards and data visualisation solutions? If so, this role may be perfect for you.

DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support the most vulnerable people in our society.

DWP Digital creates digital services that almost everyone in the UK relies on at some point in their lives. We're carrying out a once-in-a-generation digital transformation - a task of size and scale unmatched elsewhere.

If you enjoy converting business requirements into data visualisation solutions, we'd love to hear from you. We can offer you opportunities to:

1. Work with genuinely interesting use cases and data sources.
2. Make a big difference to the lives of millions of vulnerable citizens.
3. Ongoing professional and technical skills development.

Join us within DWP's Debt team to make a difference. We care about our employees and can offer you an environment that is family-friendly and supportive in an organisation with real social purpose. We provide comprehensive training and provide access to tools, materials and expertise that encourage continuous self-development.

Job description

You'll join a high-profile team delivering real business value and creating innovative solutions for our many internal customers.

As a BI Developer, you will work closely with other data professionals to design and build visualisation solutions on public cloud platforms using leading BI/MI tooling (Power BI, Business Objects, and Qlik). You will also provide 3rd line support on the products developed.

You will use visualisation tools and techniques to provide business insights, support decision making, and improve business processes. To achieve this, you will collect and organise data to build visual representations that communicate with technical and non-technical audiences.

You will be pivotal in ensuring the right data is ingested, transformed, and used to present complex displays for use at a working and executive level. As such, you will need data analytical skills to interrogate key information and experience with BI/MI tooling.

Having a working knowledge of cloud technologies and key services (AWS, Azure, GCP) is beneficial when starting the role, but not essential as training will be provided.

Person specification

When giving details in your employment history you should highlight your experience in line with the essential criteria below:

1. Experience using Power BI or Business Objects to design and develop dashboards, reports, and data visualisations.
2. Understanding of data modelling and database design concepts
3. Experience of SQL scripting.
4. Skilled at engaging with a diverse range of stakeholders and colleagues to foster collaboration and innovation that delivers tangible business value.
5. Able to translate technical concepts into non-technical language and understands the appropriate media to communicate findings.

If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact [e-mail].

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

1. Technical Breadth

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £37,497, Department for Work and Pensions contributes £10,862 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

1. Working patterns to support work/life balance such as job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours.
2. Generous annual leave - at least 23 days on entry, increasing up to 30 days over time (pro-rata for part time employees), plus 9 days public and privilege leave.
3. Support for financial wellbeing, including interest-free season ticket loans for travel, a cycle to work scheme and an employee discount scheme.
4. Health and wellbeing support including our Employee Assistance Programme for specialist advice and counselling and the opportunity to join HASSRA a first-class programme of competitions, activities and benefits for its members (subscription payable monthly).
5. Family friendly policies including enhanced maternity and shared parental leave pay after 1 year's continuous service.
6. Funded learning and development to support progress in your role and career. This includes industry recognised qualifications and accreditations, coaching, mentoring and talent development programmes.
7. An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join professional and interpersonal networks including Women's Network, National Race Network, National Disability Network (THRIVE) and many more.

This job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in their DWP office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your office will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business need but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be taken into account. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working, including whether a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for you, will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.

Salary Information

Pay for this role is from £37,497 to £38,373.

Our offer to successful candidates will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated at interview.

Existing Civil Servants who secure a new role on lateral transfer should maintain their current salary.

Existing Civil Servants who gain promotion may move to the bottom of the grade pay scale or 10% increase in salary whichever would be the greater.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Experience and Technical skills.

Stage 1: Application

Your application will consist of three parts:

1. A Personal Details application form.
2. Employment history - this should contain your work experience and any skills, qualifications and accomplishments relevant to the jobs you have completed in line with essential criteria detailed within the person specification section.
3. Technical statement (up to 250 words). The following question is aligned to the required technical skill of Technical Breadth.

1. Using an example from your career, describe how you have produced a dashboard or data visualisation solution that met a user's need.

Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.

Use the STAR approach (Situation, Task, Action, Result) to describe a specific example from your experience.

The sift panel will use the information in your employment history, personal statement, and technical statement to assess your experience, skills and knowledge.

An initial sift will be conducted using the technical statement. Candidates who pass the initial sift will be progressed to a full sift.

For Hints and Tips on completing your application visit Applying for jobs at DWP Digital.

Important Information

1. You will be asked to complete your employment history any information that you would customarily share on a CV should therefore be entered onto the application form.
2. Personal details that could be used to identify you including your name, contact details and address must be removed for your application to be considered.
3. If your employment history or technical statement contain any personal details your application will be withdrawn.
4. We recognise that AI may be helpful when applying for this role, but it is important to use it in the right way. Read the DWP AI Candidate Guide to understand how you can make the best use of GenAI while ensuring your application remains authentic and effective.

Stage 2: Interview

If you're successful at sift stage you will be invited to a video interview via Microsoft Teams. There, you will be assessed against the experiences listed above.

Interviews will take place from early May 2025. Interview dates to be confirmed.

Further information

Find out more about Working for DWP

A reserve list may be held for a period of 6 months from which further appointments can be made.

Reserve list candidates will be posted in merit order by location.

If high application volumes are received, the benchmark for candidates to proceed to the next stage may be raised. In line with our commitment to the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS), we aim to advance all candidates applying under the DCS who meet the minimum standard. However, we may only progress those candidates who best meet the required standards.

All successful candidates and those placed on reserve will be posted in merit list order by location.

The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. Please ensure that all examples provided in your application are taken directly from your own experience and that you describe the examples in your own words. Applications will be screened and if evidence of plagiarism or copying examples/answers from other sources is found, your application will be withdrawn. Internal DWP candidates may also face disciplinary action.

Security Clearance Requirement

You must meet the security requirements before you can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.

For meaningful checks to be carried out, you will need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time, to enable appropriate checks to be carried out and produce a result which provides the required level of assurance. Whilst a lack of UK residency in itself is not necessarily a bar to a security clearance, and expectation of UK residency may range from 3 to 5 years. Failure to meet the residency requirements needed for the role may result in the withdrawal of provisional jobs offers.

NSV

For further information on National Security Vetting please visit the Demystifying Vetting website.

Reasonable Adjustment

At DWP we value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including those that are underrepresented in our workforce.

We consider visible and non-visible disabilities, neurodiversity or learning differences, chronic medical conditions, or mental ill health. Examples include dyslexia, epilepsy, autism, chronic fatigue, or schizophrenia.

If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should: Contact Government Recruitment Service via [e-mail] as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.

Complete the "Reasonable Adjustments" section in the "Additional requirements" page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you're deaf, a Language Service Professional.

For further information on reasonable adjustments, terms and conditions and how we recruit visit the How we recruit page.

Feedback

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

1. UK nationals
2. nationals of the Republic of Ireland
3. nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
4. nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
5. nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
6. individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
7. Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.

The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in a new window).

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

1. Name :Caicy Sandford
2. Email :[e-mail]

Recruitment team

1. Email :[e-mail]

Further information

Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission Recruitment Principles. If you wish to make a complaint, please find further details here: https://careers.dwp.gov.uk/how-we-recruit/.

Attachments

DWP Terms and Conditions January 2024 Opens in new window(docx, 17kB)
Success-Profiles-Candidate-Overview-Accessble-Version Opens in new window(docx, 67kB)

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