Data Engineer

Made Tech
Manchester
1 week ago
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Our Data Engineers enable public sector organisations to embrace a data-driven approach by providing data platforms and services that are high-quality, cost-efficient, and tailored to the clients’ needs. They develop, operate, and maintain these services. They make sure they provide maximum value to data consumers, including analysts, scientists, and business stakeholders.


Key responsibilities

At Made Tech we want to positively impact the future of the country by using technology to improve society, for everyone. We want to empower the public sector to deliver and continuously improve digital services that are user‑centric, data‑driven and freed from legacy technology. A key component of this is developing modern data systems and platforms that drive informed decision‑making for our clients.


As a Data Engineer, you'll play a hands‑on role as a contributor to client projects, focusing on both delivering engineering work as well as upskilling members of the client team.


As a member of the data capability within Made Tech, you will also participate in our hiring process and continued development of the team, as well as representing us both internally to the organisation and publicly via presentations. You’ll need to have a drive to deliver outcomes for users and have a desire to mentor teams.


You will need to be comfortable sharing your knowledge and skills with others. Maybe you’ve written some blog posts about your discipline, or perhaps even delivered a talk or two that you’d like to share.


Skills, knowledge and expertise

We look for the following skills and experience. But if you don’t have some of the skills and experience listed below, don’t let that stop you from applying!



  • Working directly with clients and users
  • Designing and implementing efficient data transformation processes at scale, in either batch or streaming use cases
  • Contributing to the cloud infrastructure underpinning data systems through a DevOps approach
  • Basic understanding of the possible architectures involved in modern data system design (e.g. warehouses, lakes, and meshes)
  • Agile practices such as Scrum, XP, and/or Kanban
  • Showcasing and presentation skills
  • Evidence of self‑development – we value keen learners
  • Empathy and people skills
  • Working at a technology consultancy
  • Working with data scientists to productionise advanced data deliverables, such as machine learning models
  • Working knowledge of statistics
  • Working with multidisciplinary digital and technology teams
  • Working within the public sector

At this point, we hope you're feeling excited about Made Tech and the job opportunity. Even if you don't feel that you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. Get in touch with our talent team if you’d like an informal chat about the role and your suitability before applying. We are hiring for this role directly, so will not respond to any CVs sent via external recruitment agencies.


An increasing number of our customers are specifying a minimum of SC (security check) clearance in order to work on their projects. As a result, we're looking for all successful candidates for this role to have eligibility.


Eligibility for SC requires 5 years' continuous UK residency and 5 year' employment history (or back to full‑time education). Please note that if at any point during the interview process it is apparent that you may not be eligible for SC, we won't be able to progress your application and we will contact you to let you know why.


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We believe we can use tech to make public services better. We also believe this can happen best when our own team represents the society that actually uses the services we work on. We’re collectively continuing to grow a culture that is happy, healthy, safe and inspiring for people of all backgrounds and experiences, so we encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply for roles with us.


When you apply, we’ll put you in touch with a talent partner who can help with any needs or adjustments we may need to make to help with your application. This includes alternative formats for documents, the time allotted for interviews and any other needs. We also welcome any feedback on how we can improve the experience for future candidates.


We’re committed to building a happy, inclusive and diverse workforce. You can get a sense of what it’s like working here from our blog, where we talk about mental health, communities of practice and neurodiversity (as well as our client work and best practice).


Like many organisations, we use Slack to foster a sense of community and connection. As well as special interest groups such as music, food and pets, we also have 10+ Slack channels dedicated to specific communities, allies, and identities as well as dedicated learning spaces called communities of practice (COPs). If you’d like to speak to someone from one of these groups about their experience as an employee, please do let a member of the Made Tech talent team know.


We are always listening to our growing teams and evolving the benefits available to our people. As we scale, as do our benefits and we are scaling quickly. We've recently introduced a flexible benefit platform which includes a Smart Tech scheme, Cycle to work scheme, and an individual benefits allowance which you can invest in a Health care cash plan or Pension plan. We’re also big on connection and have an optional social and wellbeing calendar of events for all employees to join should they choose to.


Here are some of our most popular benefits listed below:


✈️ 30 days Holiday - we offer 30 days of paid annual leave


👶 Flexible Parental Leave - we offer flexible parental leave options


👩 💻 Remote Working - we offer part time remote working for all our staff


🤗 Paid counselling - we offer paid counselling as well as financial and legal advice.


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